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This research considers the influence of information architecture on the images of black women in digital spaces and the influences of these images of black women in digital environments in physical spaces. Some questions that I would like to continue to explore:
- Are the popular images of black women becoming monolithic rooted in a sensationalized Baartman
- Considering the contrasts between self mediated images posted on social media sites and the images that are generated in google searches pertaining to black women, what individuals or groups are searching for images of black women over the internet using broad search engines like google? And what do the masses desire to see when they conduct these searches?
- Are the self-mediated images of black women negotiating, rather than affirming or in some cases directly countering the popular images/caricatures of black women? If so, why? Protest? Agency? Current trends in heightened awareness of individualism?
- Does the repeated exposure to a Venus Hottentot caricature set unreal expectations for black women regarding the politics of physical appearances? In kind, do they inspire insecurities in black women's body image because one may not be able to meet the physical expectation without engaging in methods of physical augmentation?
- Does the repeated exposure to a Venus Hottentot caricature inspire or in some cases concentrate the gaze of broader society on black women? And if so what are the effects of such gazes in the individual lives of black women?
- Are the images that resemble the Venus Hottentot popularized by celebrities and popular televisions shows creating a monolithic expectation of black femininity that is being duplicated in order for black women to negotiate healthy and mutually beneficial relationships in their professional, personal, and in some cases spiritual lives?
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