Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking

Keisha Edwards Tassie is associate professor of communication at Morehouse College.Sonja Brown Givens is associate vice president for academic affairs at Medaille College.

Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community examines how women of color make use of social media as a social, professional, personal, and political tool for navigating the world.

Chapter 1: Surviving and thriving: Women of Color Cultivating Virtual Social CapitalLinda Charmaraman, Bernice Huiying Chan, Temple Price, and Amanda RicherChapter 2: Hashtagging from the Margins: Women of Color Engaged in Feminist Consciousness-Raising on Twitter, Caitlin GunnChapter 3: The Arab Spring between the Streets and the Tweets: Examining the Embodied (e)Resistance through the Feminist Revolutionary Body, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi AlaouiChapter 4: Move, Get Out The Way: Black "Women-of-Words" Voyaging on the Information Superhighway, Alexa HarrisChapter 5: Virtual Homeplace: (Re)Constructing the Body through Social Media, Latoya LeeChapter 6: Epistemic Advantage and Subaltern Enclaves: Tracing Anti-Street Harassment Discourse through Social Media Usage by Women of Color, Minu BasnetChapter 7: "Follow Me on Instagram": "Best Self" Identity Construction and Gaze through Hashtag Activism and Selfie Self-Love, Kandace HarrisChapter 8: A Blog, A Bittersweet Mess, and Black and White Identity Development, Makini L. King