TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roderick Graham
PY  - 2013
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453913352
TI  - The Digital Practices of African Americans
T2  - An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1335-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051373
N2  - 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.
KW  - social networking, racial identity, inequalities, technology
LA  - English
ER  -