Socially Mediated Voices of Adolescent Black Females

• In Event: 29.082 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.082-2 - Black and Latino Men Overcoming Obstacles to Equitable Education Opportunities

Abstract

New media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to vulnerable messages about self or perceptions of self through instant and online cultivated messages about race, gender, and sexuality. The implications of these inherent everyday messages in social media about Black females’ race, gender, and sexuality juxtaposed to their developing global and academic self an understudied phenomenon. This study follows theoretical paradigms of critical media literacy, Black feminist thought, and interpretive phenomenology to examine the lived experiences of late adolescent Black females, ages 18 to 24, with social media, and its influence on their global and academic self-concept.

Authors

• Nakeshia N Williams, North Carolina A&T State University

• Chance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina - Charlotte