Black Social Media Networks

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

With a focus on Black identities, this course will introduce how to critically investigate social media knowledge production, usage, and inventiveness with special attention to sexuality, gender, access and disability, and the body. Tracing the usage of chat rooms and blogging to the proliferation and popularity of hashtags and video production, we will plot an arc of Black social media practices that impact personal, political, and societal issues. This course will also emphasize ethical research practices based on considerations of data privacy.