Dr. Cindy Tekobbe Publishes New Article in Social Media + Society
Introduction
Dr. Cindy Tekobbe, Assistant Professor in Gender & Women's Studies and Communication at UIC, has a new article published in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Social Media + Society. In "Turtle, Water, and Silicon: Storyworking Indigenous Digital Methodologies," Dr. Tekobbe examines how "current digital research methodologies tend to extract and commodify knowledge in ways that can replicate social, cultural, racial, economic, and global inequities." She goes on to develop "an Indigenous approach to digital methodology, including examples of posts to Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky, as well as algorithmic search results." Dr. Tekobbe also highlights promising "approaches for performing more inclusive digital research beyond settler colonial research paradigms."
Read the full article here.