The assemblages of flagging and de-platforming against marginalised content creators

Are, Carolina

doi:10.1177/13548565231218629

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“…Sometimes, audience harassment takes a coordinated form. Through flagging, conservative platform users can contribute to the over-moderation of sexual accounts (Are, 2023). Reed describes how groups target sex workers:Someone sent me an account via Twitter that was of a Twitter account basically very openly saying, “We are against sex workers being on Instagram, our main objective is to take sex workers off of Instagram.” And on their Twitter feed this person tweeted, ‘Right, we found this sex worker on Instagram, here is the link, everyone report.…”

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Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper(In)Visibility

Stegeman,

Are,

Poell

2024

Social Media + Society

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This article examines how sexual content creators manage their (in)visibility, as they navigate the constraints of online hyper(in)visibility. So far, research has focussed on how creators more generally attempt to enhance their visibility through social media platforms. Yet, especially for sexual content creators, platform visibility is not straightforward. These creators are hyper(in)visible: facing simultaneous risks of erasure and public scrutiny, harassment, and stigmatization. Drawing on 27 interviews with creators—online sex workers; LGBTQ+ activists; and sex educators—this research outlines the harms of hyper(in)visibility and creators’ tactics for strategic invisibility. These interviews showcase how hegemonic norms make socially marginalized content both hypervisible and invisible, as well as how these dynamics are reproduced and institutionalized on platforms. As they are transgressing hegemonic sexual norms, the interviewees discuss risks of platform surveillance, outing, doxxing, harassment, and capping. Yet, within the confines of platforms, these creators find ways to manage and resist these risks and positively engage with strategic invisibility. Taken together, the analysis shows the need to complicate the notion of creator visibility and sensitize research to how creators seek particular types of visibility, as well as strategic invisibility.

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Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper(In)Visibility

Stegeman,

Are,

Poell

2024

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‘Dysfunctional’ appeals and failures of algorithmic justice in Instagram and TikTok content moderation

Are

2024

Information, Communication & Society

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Harambee as a decolonial digital fundraising approach

Frimpong,

Ayaburi,

Andoh‐Baidoo

2024

Information Systems Journal

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Deployment of digital crowdfunding platforms, which predominantly are designed in line with Western norms, into Indigenous communities often leads to significant cultural tensions. This study uses the Kenyan Indigenous tradition of Harambee to elucidate how these cultural tensions manifest and are navigated in the context of digital crowdfunding. The study employs a qualitative approach, conducting narrative interviews with individuals experienced in both Harambee and digital crowdfunding within the Kenyan context, to advance our understanding of decolonial digital crowdfunding. The findings reveal significant cultural tensions, including those related to inclusive access, diminished communal engagement and erosion of social capital. These tensions highlight the marginalisation of Indigenous cultures and the reinforcement of colonial tendencies in digital spaces. Additionally, the study uncovers the ingenuity of Indigenous users who are integrating Indigenous knowledge and Harambee norms with digital technologies, to balance cultural sensitivity, strengthen technological inclusivity and preserve their communal values within decolonial digital fundraising. This study advances decolonial scholarship by demonstrating how the integration of both Indigenous and local practices with digital technology not only advances digital decoloniality but also enriches the technology's cultural responsiveness. The findings have practical implications for designing inclusive digital crowdfunding platforms that acknowledge and align with local cultural norms.

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The assemblages of flagging and de-platforming against marginalised content creators

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper(In)Visibility

Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper(In)Visibility

‘Dysfunctional’ appeals and failures of algorithmic justice in Instagram and TikTok content moderation

Harambee as a decolonial digital fundraising approach

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