“Racist Propaganda”: discursive Negotiations on YouTube of Perceived Anti-White Racism in South Korea

Oh, David C.

doi:10.1080/15456870.2018.1517767

Cited by 6 publications

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“…Less!” The comparison implies that Korea's relative lack of multiculturalism is a moral failure. This is similar to White expats' online discourse about xenophobia in Korea (Oh, ). While they do not say that Korea is explicitly intolerant, they imply the moral superiority and racial openness of the West.…”

Section: Constructing Progressive White Supremacysupporting

confidence: 70%

Vlogging White Privilege Abroad:Eat Your Kimchi's Eating and Spitting Out of the Korean Other on YouTube

2017

Communication, Culture & Critique

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Over several years, the YouTube channel Eat Your Kimchi, a White expatriate video log about South Korea, generated a sizeable audience. In the videos, Martina and Simon Stawski draw upon discourses that empower their identities as a privileged group of cultural outsiders—valued and othered for their White difference. To benefit from their global advantage, they essentialize differences between the West/themselves and Korea/ns in order to emphasize White and Western superiority. As a consequence, they reject hybridity by both mocking Korea/ns as an exotic other and by consuming it as an exotic delight. Their strategies reflect colonial‐era discourses seen in the travel logs of White “adventurers” that are transformed to the current social, global, and technological conjuncture.

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Section: Constructing Progressive White Supremacysupporting

confidence: 70%

Vlogging White Privilege Abroad:Eat Your Kimchi's Eating and Spitting Out of the Korean Other on YouTube

2017

Communication, Culture & Critique

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“…Comments in languages other than English (LOTE), apparent for all cases, provided data about the cultural diversity of the audience. Despite the brevity of many of these comments, automated translation was not used, to avoid losing nuances in dialog identifiable only with specific cultural knowledge, an issue previously noted in intercultural research on YouTube comments ( Oh, 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“Music Has No Borders”: An Exploratory Study of Audience Engagement With YouTube Music Broadcasts During COVID-19 Lockdown, 2020

2021

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This exploratory study engages with eight case studies of music performances broadcast online to investigate the role of music in facilitating social cohesion, intercultural understanding and community resilience during a time of social distancing and concomitant heightened racial tensions. Using an online ethnographic approach and thematic analysis of video comments, the nature of audience engagement with music performances broadcast via YouTube during COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 is explored through the lens of ritual engagement with media events and models of social capital. The eight case studies featured virtual choirs, orchestras and music collaborations of various genres, including classical, pop and fusion styles drawing from European, Asia Minor, South African, West African, North African, Arabic, South Asian, and East Asian cultural origins. Five overarching themes resulted from thematic analysis of video comments, including Interaction, Unity, Resilience, Identity, and Emotion. The paper contributes important theorisation that ritual engagement and social learning fosters intercultural understanding through engaging with music both cognitively and emotionally, which can in turn shape both individual and collective identity. Online platforms provide scope for both bonding and bridging opportunities. Community resilience is supported through the sharing of knowledge, sustaining music practice during social distancing, as well as emotional support shared among audience participants, with potential wellbeing outcomes.

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“…Although some usernames appear to include masculine names such as “John”, there is no evidence available on whether the individuals involved actually were male. As Oh () notes, “it is the racialized, rhetorical purposes of online comments more than actual identities that matter in cyberspace” (Oh, , p. 307). Accordingly, we have treated all the participants in a gender‐neutral fashion when analysing their contributions.…”

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“A Golly was simply a toy. End of”: Inoculation, attention deflection, and attempted puzzle‐resolution in contesting racism in online discussions

McVittie

McKinlay

Munro

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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In producing arguments against minority groups that are designed to avoid accusations of prejudice, speakers routinely deploy two discursive strategies. One strategy of “inoculation” seeks to ward off such accusations, while the other strategy of “attention deflection” directs attention away from the potential target group. Where despite use of one or both strategies accusations arise, the result is a puzzle that needs to be resolved through explanation. Here, in a discourse analysis of online discussions as to whether “blacking up” is to count as racism, we see contributors contest (a) whether absence of intention to offend inoculates individuals from accountability for potentially racist actions, (b) whether “blacking up” depicts toys/characters rather than people, and (c) whether attempted explanations of accusations of racism work to resolve the apparent puzzle that has arisen. Contributors do not reach any consensus. These findings point to the difficulties in attempting to challenge potential racism.

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“Racist Propaganda”: discursive Negotiations on YouTube of Perceived Anti-White Racism in South Korea

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Vlogging White Privilege Abroad:Eat Your Kimchi's Eating and Spitting Out of the Korean Other on YouTube

Vlogging White Privilege Abroad:Eat Your Kimchi's Eating and Spitting Out of the Korean Other on YouTube

“Music Has No Borders”: An Exploratory Study of Audience Engagement With YouTube Music Broadcasts During COVID-19 Lockdown, 2020

“A Golly was simply a toy. End of”: Inoculation, attention deflection, and attempted puzzle‐resolution in contesting racism in online discussions

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