Intersektionalität in der Internetforschung

Abstract

In the field of Gender Studies, the concept of intersectionality has risen to a new paradigm. Intersectionality includes the attempt to analyse relations and interactions between inequality and power relations. Similarly, sociological Internet researchers investigate questions relating to the (re-)production of social inequality and discrimination; however, the issues they are dealing with differ from those in Gender Studies. This paper begins by providing an overview over the existing research within sociological research on the Internet and on matters of social inequality. We then proceed by introducing the method of intersectional multi-level analysis. Essentially, we suggest a research design that accounts for the realisation of intersectional claims within sociological Internet research and connects some of the unconnected research on inequality and the Internet.