The Digital Practices of African Americans : An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society

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by Roderick Graham

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Digital Formations

ISBN-10 1433122723

ISBN-13 9781433122729

Edition New

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 24th, 2014

Print length 164 Pages

Weight 366 grams

Dimensions 15.60 x 23.00 x 1.60 cms

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Using three case studies, this book argues that the lenses through which scholars and society’s leaders think about new technology place too much emphasis on the technological and economic aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and not enough on the impact of ICTs on social processes at the everyday level.

How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital? By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which these and other questions about core social processes can be addressed. Three case studies of how African Americans use information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used to illustrate this theoretical perspective. They show how groups can leverage ICTs to overcome historical inequalities. The book argues that the lenses through which scholars and society’s leaders think about new technology place too much emphasis on the technological and economic aspects of ICTs, and not enough on the impact of ICTs on social processes at the everyday level.

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