‘Joy is resistance’: cross-platform resilience and (re)invention of Black oral culture online

Lu, Jessica H.; Steele, Catherine Knight

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2019.1575449

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“…I also suggest that Black Twitter acts as a social space for users to entertain each other with humor and light-hearted debate. Rather than just positing Black Twitter as a space that exists in opposition to oppression, it is necessary to, as Robin D. G. Kelley (1997) writes, “recognize the importance of pleasure and laughter in people’s lives, to see culture and community as more than responses to, or products of, oppression.” Indeed, recent work from Lu and Knight-Steele (2019) points toward the importance of recognizing Black joy and pleasure online.…”

Section: What Is Black Twitter?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Genealogy of Critical Race and Digital Studies: Past, Present, and Future

Hamilton

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The interplay between race and technology has captured the attention of scholars in sociology, communication, media studies, and beyond. Previous research has focused on a range of topics including the centrality of race to the structure and function of the Internet, critiques of digital divide studies, and the phenomenon of Black Twitter. Although a robust history of critical race and digital studies exists, there has yet to be a definitive overview that traces the development of this important field. In this review, I fill this gap by delineating a genealogy of critical race and digital studies by mapping the intellectual terrain of the field. To do this, I begin with a broad overview of the history of Internet studies before reviewing key areas in the field of critical race and digital studies, including colorblind studies of the web, digital divide studies, and Black Twitter. I conclude with a focus on the ways that this body of literature can be brought forth to critically understand the implications of emerging areas of academic debate on studies of race and technology.

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Section: What Is Black Twitter?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Genealogy of Critical Race and Digital Studies: Past, Present, and Future

Hamilton

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Such work is mandated within contemporary critical approaches to decolonizing and radicalizing research (Bonilla-Silva, 2017;Fanon, 2007;Mackey, 2016). As an approach that has garnered interest among those in critical media literacy studies (Mihailidis, 2018;Ramasubramanian, 2016), it is important to place into dialogue with scholarship on race and internet studies (Benjamin, 2019;Brock, 2020;Florini, 2019;Gray, 2014;Jackson, Bailey & Welles, 2019;Lu & Steele, 2019;Nakamura & Chow-White, 2013;Noble, 2018) (Benjamin, 2019;Brock, 2020;Florini, 2019;Gray, 2014;McIlwain, 2019;Nakamura and Chow-White, 2013;Noble, 2018).…”

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Studying Youth Online Political Expression: Empirical Findings and Methodological Considerations

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We are living through a highly politicized time, with deep divisions foregrounding the significance and importance of political expression and dialogue. Youth have been at the forefront of these important conversations, in both academic research and in the popular press. On the one hand, we are seeing a resurgence of activism and engagement among youth (Bond, Chenoweth & Pressman 2018; Deal 2019), who are using online platforms to express themselves politically in rich and creative ways (Graef 2016; Jenkins et al., 2016). On the other hand, deep concerns have emerged about “some of the darker sides of networked media engagement” (boyd, 2017, n.p.), including the spread of misinformation, increased polarization and politically motivated bullying among youth (Rogers, 2017). If we see youth as active agents in their own political socialization (Youniss, McLellan & Yates, 1997), the ways they actively express and negotiate their civic identities online (Jenkins et al., 2016) offer rich possibilities for understanding how we can best support them as civic actors. The research presented in this panel aims to move beyond a simplified depiction of youth as either idealized political role models (e.g. Greta Thunberg or the Parkland Youth) or, conversely, as apathetic and politically disengaged. In light of the conference theme exploring what it means to have a Life mediated by the internet, we place emergent and senior scholars studying youth and online political expression in dialogue with one another to discuss both findings and particular considerations brought up by internet research (franzke et al., 2020), and especially internet research involving youth (Livingstone & Third, 2017). By encouraging researchers and audience members to reflect on the epistemological, ethical, and practical aspects of their own research, we aim to identify new questions for further study as we seek to understand the evolution of youth and online political expression. The first presentation reviews findings from a cross-platform study utilizing a mixed methods approach to explore youth online political expression and cross-cutting political talk on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. These presenters discuss their findings in relation to the challenges and opportunities they encountered when identifying and analyzing youth-generated cross-platform data. The second presentation highlights findings from a social discourse analysis of Twitter and Reddit threads on youth-centric issues of immigration (DACA) and environmental issues (plastic pollution) to identify how the intersection of issue, platform and aims of discourse shape the characteristics of online civic discourse. This presenter discusses the challenges she encountered when creating both a codebook and coding scheme for data analysis. The third presentation considers the role of gender and intersectional identity in online humorous political expression through a case study of a U.S. Black Muslim teen’s TikTok posts. This presenter discusses the challenges of placing critical technocultural discourse analysis into dialogue with digital media literacy and youth participatory action research endeavors. The fourth presentation highlights findings emerging from a series of ethnographic interviews with young people in a comparative study exploring online youth political expression in democratic and non-democratic contexts. This presenter discusses challenges of qualitative research when working with young people, especially marginalized youth, who utilize hidden forms of expression to engage in politics. Finally, our respondent will invite audience members into the discussion by offering a reflection on the four presentations and asking session attendees to comment on their own research experiences and larger implications they see for the study of youth political expression online.

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“…It took me a while to learn that these were echoes of popular 'Vines Videos'. These videos are remakes of remakes of mixes of Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood movies, combined with songs and home videos shared on the internet, that have become an important way for marginalised youth to challenge existing stereotypes (Lu and Steele 2019). What I found interesting was that the practices of mixing, copying, and dubbing that are part of the creation of these videos are also commonly practiced in the music the pupils listened to.…”

Section: Popular Culture and Relationmentioning

confidence: 97%

An educated Sint Maartener? National belonging in a primary school on Sint Maarten

Halfman

2019

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Both in academia and in everyday discourse, the belief in the (re)production of national ideology and related civil culture(s) within state schools has remained strong. This idea(l) has also become salient among a growing number of educational specialists, anti-colonial activists and policymakers on Sint Maarten, the Dutch or southern side of the bi-national, Caribbean island St. Martin. Drawing on fourteen months of fieldwork I show how the different elites' imaginations of the nation were remade and unmade by the teacher and pupils in a sixthgrade classroom in a public school. Lingering colonial relations, ongoing migration and popular culture challenged a well-bounded, shared imagination of the educated Sint Maartener.

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‘Joy is resistance’: cross-platform resilience and (re)invention of Black oral culture online

Cited by 93 publications

References 30 publications

A Genealogy of Critical Race and Digital Studies: Past, Present, and Future

A Genealogy of Critical Race and Digital Studies: Past, Present, and Future

Studying Youth Online Political Expression: Empirical Findings and Methodological Considerations

An educated Sint Maartener? National belonging in a primary school on Sint Maarten

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