Dr Gabriel’s PhD thesis is an exploratory study on how people of African descent in the UK use blogs as social, cultural and counterhegemonic practice and is positioned within the theoretical frameworks of alternative media and critical race theory (CRT).
Publications from PhD Thesis
Gabriel, D. (July 2016). ‘Blogging While Black British and Female: A Critical Study on Discursive Activism’, Information, Communication and Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1146784.
Gabriel, D. (2015) ‘Alternative Voices, Alternative Spaces: Counterhegemonic Discourse in the Blogosphere’ in Thorsen, E; Jackson, D; Savigny, H; & Alexander, J.(eds), Media, Margins and Civic Agency, London: Palgrave Macmillan. ‘Winner of the James Thomas Memorial Prize for Best Paper by a Postgraduate Student’
Gabriel, D. (2015). ‘Challenging the Whiteness of Britishness: Co-creating British Social History in the Blogosphere’, Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies.
