ABSTRACT
A black feminist digital sociology addresses how black women and black LGBTQ people use digital technology and create or remix digital practices to shape social processes and institutions in contemporary society. Black feminist digital sociology provides a strategy for the analysis of race and technology that recognizes how the matrix of domination maintains unequal social relations and the ways intersecting oppressions creates an unequal distribution of power among producers and users of digital technology. The assumptions of black cyberfeminist thought give black feminist digital sociology a theoretical background that circumvents the inclusion of a non-black comparison group as it asserts that the study of black people in and of themselves creates new knowledge about society and digital technology. Black feminist digital sociology constitutes a sociological approach to black feminist technology studies in its focus on the exploration of how intersectionality mediates the relationship between power and social relations for people with marginalized race, gender, and sexual identities.
