What is it about?
This article looks at live tweeting, a phenomena involving the integration of television with social network sites. By using the framework of digital labor, the work users do for TV and online sites, I delve into affective labor as raced based on the particular content marketed to black women and the subsequent reliance on their experiences on the subject of colorism.
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Why is it important?
This article adds to the digital labor framework some insights into raced labor as intentional and unique based on characteristics of particular online sites and TV programs.
Perspectives
I hope that this piece opens up discussion about race and gender in the digital labor framework as well as the joining of media as potential sites of labor for black women.
Raven S Maragh
University of Iowa
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This page is a summary of: “Our Struggles Are Unequal”, Journal of Communication Inquiry, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0196859916664082.
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