“Being alive and sharing it is already revolutionary”: educational dimensions of the content produced by black women digital influencers on Youtube
Education; Black women; Internet; Cultural Studies; Black feminism
The aim of this research is to investigate the content produced by black women digital influencers, understanding how the internet acts as a space for the construction of identities and learning about issues related to race and gender. In methodological terms, it is characterized as an exploratory and qualitative research, dialoguing with netnography as the primary strategy for data collection and construction, together with content analysis as a technique for appreciating and organizing the empirical corpus. The results were described according to analytical categories built according to the content (videos) published by the investigated channels, more precisely, it focused on publications that directly or indirectly trigger (1) racial and (2) gender themes, as well as their convergences.