095 - Thematic Session. Inequality and New Media: Young People, Technology, and Social Divides

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Technology is often heralded as the great equalizer, bearing the ability to solve social ills through making information and communication available to people regardless of class, age or racial/ethnic background.  However, digital technologies can also reflect and indeed replicate inequality along a variety of lines. Paradoxically, in some cases, attempts to address digital inequality can contribute to the remaking of historical inequalities. This panel addresses how and when digital media perpetuate inequalities as well as how and when it disrupts these processes. These papers explore how young people interact with new media in ways that reflect, challenge, and reproduce classed, raced, sexualized, gendered and geographic inequality.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizers

• Marianne Cooper, Stanford University

• C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon

Presiders

• Jessie Daniels, City University of New York-Hunter College

• C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon

Panelists

• C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon

• Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University

• Christo Sims, University of California-San Diego

Discussant

• Jessie Daniels, City University of New York-Hunter College