Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism

Kehbuma Langmia

doi:10.5771/9781793639745

Summary

Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism: An Afrocentric Perspective uses several lenses to examine the role of African Americans and Africans in the production and consumption of information in digital spaces. This book explores topics such as Black confluence of digital and in-person spaces, cyberculture and Black identity, cyberfeminists and Black gendered voices, digi-culture and racism, capitalism and digital colonization, digital activism and politics, minorities and artificial intelligence, among other topics. Scholars of African and Black Diaspora studies, digital media culture, and communication will find this book particularly interesting.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3973-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3974-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 188
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. Before this time, yesterday No access
2. Three selves in one No access
3. Cyberculture and the Language Factor No access
1. The Political Economy of Cyberculturalism No access
2. Cyber-Culture in Africa and COVID-19 No access
3. Cybercultural Underdogs No access
4. Black Users and Dependency No access
5. Knowledge and Information Dependency No access
6. Broadband/Mobile Activities No access
7. Conclusion No access
1. Black Intersectionality Spaces No access
2. Black Social Media Spaces No access
3. Black Twitter and Cyberspace No access
4. Black Cybercitizens and Cybernetizens No access
5. Orality (Lenali App) and Social Media No access
6. Africans/Blacks and Digital Divide No access
7. Blacks and Digital Divide in the United States No access
1. Concept of Identity/Identification No access
2. Identity and Cyberspace No access
3. Cyberspace and Psycho-Metric Values No access
4. The Self and Digi-Culturalism No access
5. Cybersubculture and Ethnic Identities No access
6. Anonymity and Digi-Culturalism No access
1. African Women and Digital Communication Spaces/Challenges No access
2. Black Cyberfeminism No access
3. Internet and African Women Empowerment No access
4. Arab African Women and the “Arab Spring” Cyber Activism No access
5. Black Women and Online Gender Equity No access
1. Afrocentricity and New Media No access
2. Blacks and Cybernetic Inequalities No access
3. Cybernetizenry and Counterpublics No access
4. Black Counterpublics on Cyberspace (Afrosphere) No access
5. Cyberspace and International Inequities No access
6. Cyberspace and the Disabled No access
1. Cyberbullying No access
2. #BlackLivesMatter and Racism No access
3. #AllLivesMatter vs. #BlackLivesMatter? No access
4. Cyber Racism and Regulation No access
1. Digital Colonization No access
2. De-westernizing Digital Cultures No access
3. African Languages and Digital De/Neo-Colonization/Westernization No access
4. Digi-cultural Conundrums No access
5. Untapped Resources No access
6. Digital Labor Exploitation No access
1. Challenges for Developing Countries No access
2. Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Digi-Culturalism No access
3. Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19 in Africa No access
1. Where are we? No access
2. Africa/Black Digi-Politics No access
3. Digital vs. Citizens Politics No access
4. Black Women and Digital Politics No access
1. Offline vs. Online Activism No access
2. COVID-19 and Activism No access
3. Online Activism No access
4. Surveillance and BLM No access
5. Surveillance in Africa No access
6. African Governments and Online Activism No access
Bibliography No access Pages 169 - 182
Index No access Pages 183 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 188