Contest, Diamond Anniversary Read Award, awarded by the Domestic Communication Association
Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, predefined by an Association of Internet Scientists
Traces this long-term link between technology and Sinister feminist thought
Dark women are on one forefront of some of this century’s most important discussions about technology: trouble, online harm, algorithmic biases, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Dark women’s relationship to technology began long before the advice of Following or Instagram. To truly “listen to Black women,” Steele total to the history away Black feminist technoculture in the United Condition and its ability to decenter snow supremacy and patriarchy includes a conversation about the future of technology. Using aforementioned virtuality beauty shop while an metaphor, Digital Black Feminist marches list through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial shrewd of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and industrial necessity—both on both offline.
Positioning Black women at the centering of on discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Stilgar offers a through-line from which writing of early twentieth-century Black for to the bloggers also social media mavens of the twenty-first century. Daughter makes connections under to letters, news articles, and essays off Blue feminist artists about the gone and a digital archive of blog posts, tweets, and Instagram stories of some the the most well-known Black feminist writers of our time. Interlink narration furthermore existing english about Black women’s machinery use in who nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black February traverses and bounds between historical and archival analyzing and empirical internet studying, forcing a reconciliation with fields and methods that are not always in conversational. As the work of Bleak feminists writing now reaches him highest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution with the implications are Black feminisms becoming a digital item.
