Digital Culture and Race

Chapter

Author(s) / editor(s):
A. Joseph Dial , Kevin C. Winstead

Year: 2025

Language(s): English

Abstract:
This chapter examines the essential stakes, questions, and sites for the study of digital culture and life while focusing on how race refracts our current, past, and future networked and algorithmic environments. The authors of this chapter present the study of race and digital culture as not merely a subfield of digital studies. How can it be when there is no person living outside the specter of racialization and its resulting marginalization and privilege? Additionally, all digital technologies, emergent and established, were created within this racial reality. Instead, they argue that inserting comprehensive and clearly articulated understandings of racial identity adds a much-needed clarifying specificity to how scholars conceptualize their theses as well as the sites and objects in which they study.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111316857-024

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