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Decolonizing Digital Methods

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ID12387367
AuthorsTanja Bosch (0000-0002-8093-1969, University of Cape Town, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue2
Pages298-302
Publication date2022-04-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1050-3293 • E-ISSN: 1468-2885
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ct/qtac005
OpenAlexW4224300010
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited11

The rapid growth of the Internet and social media platforms has increasingly made these central focus areas for media scholars around the world. Within the context of the broader framework of the movement towards decolonizing media and communication studies, this growth of digital methods raises key questions including: How are digital methods in these contexts currently being used and how might scholars begin to think about “decolonizing” these methods? What do digital methods look like in a context of the digital divide? This short commentary reflects on these questions to make an argument for the need to decolonize digital methods

Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Decolonization · Digital media · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Key (lock · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Education and Society · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Social Media and Politics · History

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