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Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Abstract
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent years. Specifically, our thoughts relate to five expansive and interlinked themes: 1. Digital Blackness, Twitter, and Community-Building, 2. Aesthetics, Archives, and Knowledge Production, 3. Pressures, Projections, and Power Dynamics, 4. Research on/as Black Feminist Joy and Pleasure, 5. The Politics of Research. By reflecting on our research and encounters in academia we provide an overview of key aspects of Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain, including how such scholarship is impacted by the specifics of where we are (and have been) located. In doing so, we share insights at the nexus of Black studies, digital studies, cultural studies, and feminist media studies that foreground possibilities, problems, playfulness, and pleasure that can be part of doing Black feminist and digital media studies work in Britain.
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“While Black Twitter operates as a global network fostering solidarity across the diaspora, it is also a space where ideological differences, regional perspectives, and sociopolitical tensions surface.”
From Exploring #Diasporawars on Black Twitter (2025) · cites this paper as Bruce et al., 2021
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“Collectively, these studies illustrate that Black Twitter is not merely a digital extension of the U.S. Black experience but a transnational network where Black identity is continuously constructed, debated, and reshaped in response to local and global sociopolitical forces.”
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The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain
Sobande, F. (2020) · Palgrave studies in (re) presenting gender · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46679-4 · Cited by 93
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Mitchell, B., & Draper, D. L. (1983) · The Professional Geographer · doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1983.00009.x · Cited by 10
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Exploring #Diasporawars on Black Twitter
Musgrave, T., Ye, Y., Toyama, K., Schoenebeck, S., & Threats, M. (2025) · Social Media + Society · doi:10.1177/20563051251352834 · Cited by 3
“Scholars have examined how Black British digital media scholars perceive Black Twitter as an evolving diasporic space, emphasizing its role in connecting Black communities in the United Kingdom and beyond (Bruce et al., 2021).”
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- Authors
- bruce, K., Walcott, R., Kihoro Mackay, K., Osei, K., lasade-anderson, T., & Sobande, F.
- Affiliations
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK
- Goldsmiths University of London (GB)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sobande, Francesca
- Venue
- Feminist Media Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-11-17
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1302-1321
- ISSN
- 1468-0777 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-5902
- OpenAlex
- W4210565262
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 1.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Feminist Media Studies (publishedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (acceptedVersion)
- University of the Arts London Research Online (University of the Arts London) (acceptedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- Keywords
- digital media studies, Twitter, community building, aesthetics, archives, knowledge production, power dynamics in academia, politics of research, Black studies, Great Britain
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