The Digital Lives of Black Girls: Conversations with Gen Z Women On Identity, Technology, and Digital Cultures
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More about
the book and online survey
“The Digital Lives of Black Girls” is a forthcoming nonfiction book by Kyanna Sutton, a college professor, media scholar, and longtime digital media producer. This book interrogates technorati dogma as it examines the online and intermodal lives of Black Gen Z women and how their lifelong use of technologies and online media informs identity, shapes American and pop culture writ large, and impacts Black girls’ mental health.
Research for this work entails an online questionnaire and one-on-one interviews with female-identified, Black Gen Z technology users, and digital ethnography.
If you meet the following three criteria, please get in touch! If you agree to be interviewed by me, you will contribute vital research for the book. Scholars widely agree how BIPOC, women, LQBTQIA+, and other folks from historically marginalized groups are often left out of research studies, across the disciplines in the academy and industries. I want to hear from you and as many Black girls as possible!
In the meantime, please take the online survey.
To take the online survey, you must meet all of the three following criteria. You identify as:
Black, biracial, or mixed race
Female
Generation Z (born 1997-2012, ages 13-28)
The questionnaire takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete, depending on the amount of detail you share. It can be taken anonymously if you wish.
Illustration generated by AI tool based on author’s prompts.
Contact Me
If you’re a Black Gen Z woman who is active online and willing to discuss your relationship to technology, I’d love to hear from you. Please reach out using the form on this page and someone on my research team will follow up.
You can also email us directly at digitalblackgirls@emerson.edu