From Where They Enter: Intersectionality, Digital Equity, and Educational Opportunity

• In Event: 52.062 - Inclusion and Exclusion Across the Educational Pipeline

Abstract

Much of the research concerned with the digital divide along the lines of gneder, although foundational in understanding and fighting for digital equity, is limited because it studies gender inequality with a single-axis framework of identity. As a result of employing a single-axis framework where only gender is highlighted, the experiences of people with doubly marginalized identities, such as black women, are occluded. I argue that scholars studying gender as it relates to digital equity might employ an intersectionality framework to provide the necessary nuance and complexity to more fully address the technological experiences of marginalized groups

Author

• Antar Akari Tichavakunda, University of Southern California