How Does Black Kids' Online Activity Affect Their Offline Lives? A Review of Qualitative Literature (Poster 8)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Fifteen
  In Poster Session: Equity, Community, and Citizenship

Abstract

Much qualitative education research assumes a “digital dualism”: the idea that the “real” material world that people bodily inhabit and the digitally-mediated virtual worlds with which they engage are distinct. Recently, empirical research across disciplines has problematized digital dualism and its implied hierarchy. This study, a scoping review of sixteen studies, sets the stage for my dissertation research. It seeks to continue that intervention by examining what empirical qualitative research that resists digital dualism has found about how the digital mediates the lives of Black kids. Thematic analysis of first and second order constructs shows that Black kids’ online practices have offline ramifications; Black youth leverage this fact as they author identities, develop socio-politically, and navigate sociality.

Author

• Parker Miles, University of Michigan
  Presenting Author