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Constructing Digital Cultures - Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender (Paperback)
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Constructing Digital Cultures - Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender (Paperback)
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Announcing presidential decisions, debating social issues,
disputing the latest developments in television shows, and sharing
funny memes—Twitter has become a space where ordinary citizens
and world-leaders alike share their thoughts and ideas. As a
result, some argue Twitter has leveled the playing field, while
others reject this view as too optimistic. This has led to an
ongoing debate about the platform’s democratizing potential and
whether activity on Twitter engenders change or merely magnifies
existing voices. Constructing Digital Cultures explores these
issues and more through an in-depth examination of how Twitter
users collaborate to create cultural understandings. Looking
closely at how user-generated narratives renegotiate dominant ideas
about gender and race, it provides insight into the nature of
digital culture produced on Twitter and the platform’s potential
as a virtual public sphere. This volume investigates arenas of
discussion often seen on Twitter—from entertainment and popular
culture to politics, social justice issues, and advertising—and
looks into how members of ethnic minority groups use and relate to
the platform. Through an in-depth examination of individual
expressions, the different kinds of dialogue that characterize the
platform, and various ways in which people connect, Constructing
Digital Cultures provides a critical, empirically based
consideration of Twitter’s potential as an inclusive, egalitarian
public sphere for the modern age.
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