New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race

Cisneros, Josue David; Nakayama, Thomas K.

doi:10.1080/17513057.2015.1025328

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“…With no real monitoring system or set of ethics, as would be employed by traditional mediums, social media posts go largely unfiltered and unregulated. This can lead to a resurgence of racism online (Cisneros & Nakayama, 2015). Social media platforms have also been accused of reproducing whiteness and discrediting non-white experiences (Nakayama, 2017).…”

Section: Media and Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Objectification, Sexualization, and Misrepresentation: Social Media and the College Experience

Davis

2018

Social Media + Society

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Social media use can have major impacts on one's construction of identity, sexuality, and gender. However, some social media sites exhibit problematic and prejudiced themes through their photo and video posts. This paper examines two Instagram sites specifically targeting traditionally college-aged individuals. These sites have tens of thousands of followers, post frequently, and solely focus on highlighting the college experience. Through a textual analysis of these two sites, problematic themes emerged, including objectification of female college students, submissiveness of female college students, and emphasis on a young white college experience. These themes are detailed and explored, followed by a discussion on their potential impacts on broader societal structures and ideas for education on gendered prejudices in the media.

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Section: Media and Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Objectification, Sexualization, and Misrepresentation: Social Media and the College Experience

Davis

2018

Social Media + Society

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“…Importantly, internet forums and social media have provided a new context for mobilizing antiimmigration and racist attitudes and the politics of fear. They have become homes for the expression of "old racisms," in other words, places where opinions and emotional reactions that are not socially acceptable in mainstream society can be expressed (Cisneros and Nakayama 2015). This is illustrated by the fact that in September 2015 several Finnish news organizations disabled or limited online comments on news about immigration and the refugee crisis because of the escalation of hateful comments (Toivonen 2015).…”

Section: The European Refugee Crisis: Media Framings and Anti-immigramentioning

confidence: 99%

“Despicable, Disgusting, Repulsive!!!” Public Emotions and Moralities in Online Discussions About Violence Towards Refugees

Pantti

2016

Javnost - The Public

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This article analyses the affective-discursive work that the image of an anti-asylum seeker demonstrator dressed like a member of the Ku Klux Klan and waving a Finnish flag generated in online platforms in Finland. Specifically, it focuses on how the vocabulary of disgust served to draw boundaries between "us" and "others," thus reconstructing hierarchies of human worth and deservingness. The aim of the article is to discuss the role of disgust and related emotions in relation to what has become known as the European refugee crisis and whether the language of disgust allows for solidarity with the plight of asylum seekers.

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“…While the cultural relevance of beauty contests has diminished, they remain a site where questions of nationality, national identity and race are negotiated. In the past decade, the selection of non-white contestants as the winners has prompted racist social-media attacks in United States (Cisneros and Nakayama, 2015), in France (Pheiffer, 2013) and in Belgium (Vanpevenaege, 2018). Cisneros and Nakayama (2015) noted that much of the debate on beauty contestants constitutes an 'old' type of racist discourse in contrast with colour-blind racism.…”

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“…In the past decade, the selection of non-white contestants as the winners has prompted racist social-media attacks in United States (Cisneros and Nakayama, 2015), in France (Pheiffer, 2013) and in Belgium (Vanpevenaege, 2018). Cisneros and Nakayama (2015) noted that much of the debate on beauty contestants constitutes an 'old' type of racist discourse in contrast with colour-blind racism. The old racist discourse explicitly holds that different 'races' exist in a hierarchy.…”

Section: Images Mobilising Affectivitymentioning

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Affective economy of national-populist images: Investigating national and transnational online networks through visual big data

Hokka

Nelimarkka

2019

New Media & Society

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In our article, we investigate the affective economy of national-populist image circulation on Facebook. This is highly relevant, since social media has been an essential area for the spread of national-populist ideology. In our research, we analyse image circulation as affective practice, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. We use computational data analysis methods to examine visual big data: image fingerprints and reverse image search engines to track down the routes of thousands of circulated images as well as make discourse-historical analysis on the images that have gained most attention among supporters. Our research demonstrates that these existing tools allow social science research to make theory-solid approaches to understand the role of image circulation in creating and sustaining national and transnational networks on social media, and show how national-populist thinking is spread through images that catalyse and mobilise affects -fear, anger and resentment -thus creating an effective affective economy.

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New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race

Cited by 81 publications

References 35 publications

Objectification, Sexualization, and Misrepresentation: Social Media and the College Experience

Objectification, Sexualization, and Misrepresentation: Social Media and the College Experience

“Despicable, Disgusting, Repulsive!!!” Public Emotions and Moralities in Online Discussions About Violence Towards Refugees

Affective economy of national-populist images: Investigating national and transnational online networks through visual big data

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