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JCMC: The Discussion Section Ep. 2 - Exploring the Vast Social & Creative Agencies of Marginalized Communities in the Digital Age

February 27, 2023 / 20:30/E2

In this episode of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Scott Campbell, Constance F., and Arnold C. Pohs Professor of Telecommunication at the University of Michigan, are joined by Will Marler and Adriana de Souza e Silva to discuss the academic studies on mediated communications and the aspects of marginalization in the digital media environment. They talk about ways to overcome the issues of marginalization.

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Featuring

Scott Campbell

Will Marler

Adriana de Souza e Silva

More from the host & speakers:

Scott W. Campbell

Constance F. and Arnold C. Pohs Professor | Department of Communication and Media

University of Michigan

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Will Marler

Assistant Professor | Department of Communication and Cognition

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Twitter - @willmarler

Adriana de Souza e Silva

Professor | Department of Communication

North Carolina State University (USA)

Twitter - @souzaesilva

Facebook - asouzaesilva

LinkedIn - Adriana de Souza e Silva

Works referenced in episode:

Marler, W. (2022). “You can connect with like, the world!”: Social platforms, survival support, and digital inequalities for people experiencing homelessness. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(1), zmab020.

Marler, W. (2019). Accumulating phones: Aid and adaptation in phone access for the urban poor. Mobile Media & Communication, 7(2), 155-174.

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression. In Algorithms of oppression. New York University Press.

Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. St. Martin's Press.

Fritz, N., & Gonzales, A. (2018). Privacy at the Margins| not the normal trans story: negotiating trans narratives while crowdfunding at the margins. International Journal of Communication, 12, 20.

Ang, M. W., Tan, J. C. K., & Lou, C. (2021). Navigating sexual racism in the sexual field: Compensation for and disavowal of marginality by racial minority Grindr users in Singapore. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26(3), 129-147.

Chib, A., Nguyen, H., & Lin, D. (2021). Provocation as agentic practice: Gender performativity in online strategies of transgender sex workers. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26(2), 55-71.

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility in gang prosecutions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 23(6), 354-369.

de Souza e Silva, A., & Xiong-Gum, M. N. (2021). Mobile networked creativity: Developing a theoretical framework for understanding creativity as survival. Communication Theory, 31(4), 821-840.

de Souza e Silva, A., Duarte, F., & Damasceno, C. S. (2017). Creative Appropriations in Hybrid Spaces: Mobile Interfaces in Art and Games in Brazil. International Journal of Communication (19328036), 11.

De Souza e Silva, A., Sutko, D. M., Salis, F. A., & de Souza e Silva, C. (2011). Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. New Media & Society, 13(3), 411-426.

Scholars referenced in episode:

Virginia Eubanks

Seeta Pena Ganghadaran

Eszter Hargittai

Ellen Helsper

Alexander van Deursen

Jose van Dijck

Roberto daMatta

JCMC: The Discussion Section Ep. 2 - Exploring the Vast Social & Creative Agencies of Marginalized Communities in the Digital Age