Disrupting infrastructure: Social media and accessing digital publics

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" Disrupting infrastructure: Social media and accessing digital publics "
Carolyn K. Grant Bay, Jennifer

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	803358
Doc. No	:	TL48142
Call number	:	‭1660972414;‮ ‬1584902‬
Main Entry	:	Johnson, Emily McLean
Title & Author	:	Disrupting infrastructure: Social media and accessing digital publics\ Carolyn K. GrantBay, Jennifer
College	:	Purdue University
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	M.A.
field of study	:	English
student score	:	2014
Page No	:	65
Note	:	Committee members: Blackmon, Samantha; Salvo, Michael
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-60220-3
Abstract	:	This thesis investigates infrastructural barriers to effecting change through social media participation. Though social media is said to hold 'democratic potential' by enabling open access to the digital public sphere, in reality it is often still the most privileged voices that get heard. Even in success cases of the power of social media like the Arab Spring, situational contexts lead to particular infrastructural access points that are not universally transferable, and still tend to favor mainstream perspectives. Barriers to amplifying marginalized voices include inadequate systems for digital memory and sharing algorithms that promote the visibility of the already visible. These issues become particularly evident in the social media efforts of intersectional feminist writers, which are too often and too easily ignored. This thesis proposes that biased infrastructural configurations can and should be disrupted to promote change.
Subject	:	Social research; Web Studies; Rhetoric
Descriptor	:	Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Communicative capitalism;Infrastructure;Memory;Public rhetorics;Social media
Added Entry	:	Bay, Jennifer
Added Entry	:	EnglishPurdue University