The Intersectional Internet

This book explores the intersection of race, class, and technology, providing new insights into power dynamics within digital media. The Intersectional Internet offers a comprehensive look at these issues.

This volume serves as a platform for exploring new questions, methods, and theories applicable to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. Central to The Intersectional Internet is the examination of how representations in hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures intertwine with global economic, political, and social systems of control. It delves into the complexities of race, sex, class, and culture, emphasizing the need for innovative theoretical and methodological approaches in the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies.

Contributors to The Intersectional Internet engage in a scholarly dialogue that highlights the necessity of tracing the uneven power relations inherent in technological spaces. By analyzing the broader political and economic contexts alongside various digital technology acculturation processes, the book sheds light on how culturally situated and gendered information technologies shape participation in the digital realm. This perspective allows for a deeper understanding of the implications of technology on social relations and power dynamics.

Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Internet studies, library and information studies, communication, sociology, and psychology, The Intersectional Internet also caters to researchers across various fields. By advancing theoretical and methodological approaches to Internet research, this volume encourages a more nuanced understanding of the impact of digital technologies on society and the ways in which they can either facilitate or hinder participation in the digital landscape.