Access granted by social media has been used to decontextualize and appropriate linguistic cultural artifacts, specifically, African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The purpose of this research is to investigate how social media affords for the appropriation and decontextualization of AAVE, how this impacts AAVE users, and what can be done to mitigate this phenomenon.
Project Name
Faculty Lead(s)
Andre Brock
Student Name(s)
Raj Smith
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Lab Name
GVU Affiliate Projects (No Lab)
Video Title
Social Media & The Decontextualization and Appropriation of African-American Vernacular English
Video URL
[VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5gNwgB6fU]