Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age

Zusatztext

This book provides a unique analysis of the intersection between gender, sexuality, race, and social media. While early scholarship identified the internet as being inherently egalitarian, this volume presents the internet as a real social place where inequalities matter and manifest in particular ways according to the architectures of particular platforms. This volume utilizes innovative methodologies to analyze how internet users both re-inscribe and resist inequalities of gender, sexuality, and race. It describes how the internet has ameliorated and bridged geographic and numerical limits on community formation, and this volume examines how the functioning of social inequalities differs on- and offline.

Autorenportrait

Dr. Nicole Farris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Her major areas of interest are gender, marriage/family, and demography, and just published her book on Boomerang Kids: Previously Launched Adults in the United States. Her prior publications focus on gender, sexuality, and the use of social media as a pedagogical tool.  Dr. DLane Compton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of New Orleans. Her research interests include social psychology and gender/sexualities. Her latest book, Legalizing LGBT Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood, emphasizes the variability in the laws for LGBT families across the United States. She has co-authored various other pieces with her co-editor Dr. Nicole Farris, including Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes, and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies through Springer.  Andrea P. Herrera is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon. Andrea is the recipient of the 2016 and 2017 Marquina Faculty-Graduate Student Collaboration Award and the Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellowship at the University of Oregon. Her work focuses on the intersection of gender/sexuality/race and their links to social media. 

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