User ID/entity: Examining the Role of Online Interactions in Black Racial Identity Formation

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dc.contributor.advisorShiao, Jiannbin
dc.contributor.authorMartin, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-06T21:46:54Z
dc.date.available2017-09-06T21:46:54Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-06
dc.description.abstractRacial identity formation has been extensively studied but lacks an adequate accounting of one of the dominant forms of modern communication: social media interactions. Existing literature acknowledges an implicit and complex relationship between various forms of communication and racial identity formation. Nevertheless, the role of online interactions, and how they affect the development of multi-layered and complex identities, remains largely underexplored. This dissertation explores how the Internet, and its related technologies, provide new forms of communications that facilitate the formation, negotiation, and presentation of racial identity for African American young adults in college. By examining the intersection of communications research and race and ethnicity scholarship, I reveal new mechanisms for racial identity formation, explain how social media interactions moderate existing identity formation processes, and shed light upon new sites where existing processes are enacted. All of these outcomes provide new insight into how the process of identity formation unfolds for black Americans in the “information age.”en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/22691
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectBlacken_US
dc.subjectCollegeen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectOnlineen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.titleUser ID/entity: Examining the Role of Online Interactions in Black Racial Identity Formation
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Sociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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