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Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; Issue no. 10 (November 2016)
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Issue edited by Carol Stabile, Radhika Gajjala, and Sarah T. Hamid
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Sisters Rap the Blues: Examining the Perceived Impact of Rap Music on Black Women College Students (Fembot Collective, 2016-11)The following qualitative study examines how Black women college students enrolled at a Predominately White Institution (PWI) perceive the impact of mainstream rap music on their academic experiences. For the purpose of ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)Online harassment is a significant problem, and an important movement has emerged in response. However, this activism usually refers back to free speech discourse. I argue that an intersectional approach requires us to ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)With this research, we seek to formulate a feminist sociology of revenge porn, defined as the non-consensual circulation of intimate images with the intent to harm, to bring together two existing explanations for critical ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)This article examines the shooting of Philando Castile, and his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds’, decision to film his death at the hands of the police, in order to explore the potential of live-streaming applications as a ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)Less than a year after the creation of the viral hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, an equally catchy and politically charged slogan surfaced: #BlackGirlMagic. This latest hashtag insists on making black women’s bodies both visible ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)Tinder is a mobile dating app that has recently taken off among young heterosexuals. While attracting great media attention, little scholarly work exists on the topic. In this paper we begin to address this gap by reporting ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)Social media and mobile apps are increasingly a part of college culture and are being mobilized in the college party scene. Through the use of digital ethnography, this paper focuses on the app Yeti: Campus Stories to ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)Although online dating has only recently become culturally acceptable and widespread, using computers to make romantic matches has a long history. But rather than revolutionizing how people met and married, this article ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2016-11)It is important to understand the content of media, as media can promote stereotypes that communicate what gender roles, appearances, and acts of violence are acceptable in society. This content analysis of 147 superheroes ...