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Black women's digital health networks function as generative 'digital enclaves of well-being' that produce co-constructed archives of care grounded in Black feminist epistemologies, challenging the view that such spaces are primarily reactionary to the white gaze. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.CONTRADICTORY. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how Black women content creators utilize digital health networks to produce generative knowledge and mutual care rather than solely reactive discourses.

August 28, 2026Critical Studies in Media Communication

Digital enclaves of well-being: Black feminist epistemologies and the ethics of caring in online communities

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SCShanice Jones CameronUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Qualitative interview study reveals generative archives of care among Black women online creators, suggesting digital health networks function as autonomous enclaves of well-being.

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To examine how Black women content creators utilize digital health networks to produce generative knowledge and mutual care rather than solely reactive discourses.
Conducted 28 semi-structured interviews with Black women content creators active across three Instagram wellness communities: #therapyforblackgirls, #blackvegan, and #blackgirlsrun.
Participants actively generated co-constructed written, sonic, and visual texts that operate as living archives of care grounded in Black feminist epistemologies.
The networks operated as generative 'digital enclaves of well-being,' facilitating autonomous health discourse and community support independent of dominant cultural gazes.

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Shanice Jones Cameron (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9145ead15324a1df3a91d1 https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2026.2717252

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Qualitative interview study reveals generative archives of care among Black women online creators, suggesting digital health networks function as autonomous enclaves of well-being.

Digital enclaves of well-being: Black feminist epistemologies and the ethics of caring in online communities

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Digital enclaves of well-being: Black feminist epistemologies and the ethics of caring in online communities

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