Digital Bodies

Daniels, Jessie, Gregory, Karen, Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781447329077
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our embodied selves into contact with digital media technologies.

Read alongside one another, the selections here expand our understanding of what it means to live in and through bodies augmented by digital technologies within a deeply unequal social world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on the authors
• 20. Bodies in code
• 21. Personal data practices in the age of lively data
• 22. “They’re just too urban”: Black gamers streaming on Twitch
• 23. From “geek” to “chic”: Wearable technology and the woman question
• 24. Queer Facebook? Digital sociality and queer theory
• 25. The Ms. Dewey “experience:” Technoculture, gender, and race
• 26. The Emperor’s new data clothes: Implications of “nudity” as a racialized and gendered metaphor in discourse on personal digital data
• 27. Post your comments below: A case study of immigrant bashing online
• 28. Our mothers have always been machines: The conflation of media and motherhood
• 29. #notracist: Exploring racism denial talk on Twitter