“Keep Dat Ass Jumpin’...On the Backs of Marginal Girls’ Mobility: Music, Capital, and Technological Oppression on YouTube”
From clickbait to search algorithms to the multiple forms of capital available from new media, a study of YouTube twerking suggests that everybody but the black girl socially benefits from online play. In this talk, Dr. Kyra Gaunt examines how technology and existing social inequalities reproduce intersectionality. Girls and twerking are not to blame but are costly just the same.Dr. Kyra Gaunt is an ethnomusicologist and social media researcher who studies technology and the unintended consequences of online communities for marginalized groups. To request interpreting services, visit myaccess.rit.edu
Event Snapshot
When and Where
November 28, 2016
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Who
Open to the Public
| Cost | FREE |