What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns

Bouvier, Gwen; Machín, David

doi:10.1177/0957926520977215

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“…Using approaches similar to restorative justice practices (Fronius et al, 2016; McCold, 2006), forging an intimate, diversified space for understanding and listening can evoke empathy between racialized and non-racialized peoples, reducing the need to “perform” to specific in-group expectations. Importantly, these spaces must be treated as private and sacred, to ensure involved parties feel comfortable in relaying their perspectives and histories and are not concerned about being canceled and related bugaboos of the anti-CRT contingent (Bouvier and Machin, 2021). Along these lines, however, guidelines can be established ahead of the execution of testimonios to ensure that specific triggers are accounted for and maneuvered around and that subsequent emotional support is available.…”

Section: Empathy On Race: Toward An Endgame On Education On Racementioning

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Defining and finding an endgame in education on race

Ezell

Torres-Beltran

Hamdi

2022

Power and Education

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Long regarded as the “great equalizer” across all social identity categories, including race/ethnicity, class, and gender, the education system plays a pronounced role in the curation and dissemination of knowledge on social stratification. In contemporary times, this role is perhaps no more evident than in academia’s gatekeeping role in discussions of race and racism. Contemporary racial injustice in the U.S. provides raw material for consideration of how the American education system in particular has articulated the forces that give rise to racial injustice and, in turn, how academia shapes--and also places itself inside and outside of--these conversations. Examining the pedagogy of “education on race,” this piece explores whether academia can be expected to meaningfully set a course for addressing systemic and structural racism, or indeed directly address it. Considering Foucault, Freire, and Bonilla-Silva’s interlocking arguments about the persuasive nature of power, we contextualize the emergence of corrosive academic "love languages" on race to explore how educational institutes produce and reproduce systems of oppression through gestures of racial solidarity that stop purposefully short of substantive action. We close with a proposal for using indigenous, empathy-focused interventions to generate impactful dialogue and action towards anti-racism in educational spaces and beyond.

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Section: Empathy On Race: Toward An Endgame On Education On Racementioning

confidence: 99%

Defining and finding an endgame in education on race

Ezell

Torres-Beltran

Hamdi

2022

Power and Education

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“…Success is also feared because it generates concerns that others will now expect more of them than their skills are able to meet. The social dynamics of allyship that severely punish those who make mistakes (e.g., see cancel culture; Bouvier & Machin, 2021) may motivate individuals to set unreasonably high expectations of themselves. Failure may result in shame and guilt, especially because these emotions are already seen as role appropriate for an ally (Harvey & Oswald, 2000).…”

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How can I lead social change when I feel like a fake? Exploring the impostor phenomenon among social justice allies in the workplace

Warren¹,

Warren²,

Smith³

et al. 2022

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Many employees self-label as allies, yet few engage in concrete allyship action. We propose that one critical barrier is impostorism – possessing allyship competencies yet feeling like a fraud – which may stifle action and undermine individual mental health and workplace functioning. Latent profile analyses tested whether this unique confluence of competencies and feelings of fraudulence were present with respect to the ally role. Results from a preregistered study with two representative samples of working adults in Michigan, US (N = 778) and Canada (N = 973), identified four profiles: (1) Competent Ally Impostors (high allyship competencies, high impostorism), (2) Confident Allies (high allyship competencies, low impostorism), (3) Average Allies (average allyship competencies, moderate impostorism), and (4) Disengaged Individuals (low allyship competencies, low impostorism). As hypothesized, we found that Competent Ally Impostors had significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms and anxiety than Confident Allies, suggesting that this subgroup of skilled individuals may nevertheless be impeded by impostorism, and their mental health may suffer as a result. Unlike our hypotheses, Disengaged Individuals and Average Allies reported significantly less psychological safety, work efficacy, and job satisfaction than Confident Allies and Competent Ally impostors suggesting that allyship competencies and not impostorism may drive employees’ levels of psychological safety, work efficacy, and job satisfaction at work. Our findings point to the outcomes associated with allyship impostorism and other subgroups of allyship functioning, which in turn sheds light on how we can better target research and practice to boost allyship.

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“…The version of record is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1800000031 what is often called the "knowledge economy" (Boutang, 2011;Burton-Jones, 1999;Foss, 2002;Neef, 1998;Neef et al, 1998;O'Hara, 2002;Zuboff, 2019) involve moving intangible or barely tangible bits around (Negroponte, 1995).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The version of record is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1800000031 them (Bouvier and Machin, 2021). The perception that those denounced tend toward the political right (itself contested - Cook et al, 2021;Norris, 2021), while academics tend toward the political left, confuses the debate still further; academic communities have been accused (by both sides) of bad faith research and illegitimate suppression of free speech and academic freedom, and so the status of academic literature (and practice) is itself in question (Read and Leathwood, 2021;Rom and Mitchell, 2021;Suissa and Sullivan, 2021;Teixeira da Silva, 2021).…”

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“…The prominent role of the private sector means that capitalist techniques can be applied in the new knowledge economy. There is a difference of opinion on whether the abundance of data has led in essence to a new style of capitalism, cognitive capitalism (Boutang, 2011) or surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2019), or whether it is basically a few new twists on older models (Ekbia and Nardi, 2017;Morozov, 2019). We can see that the companies that dominated the economies of analogue modernity for many decades -Siemens, Ford, General Electric, IBM, Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, ICI, Shell -have been eclipsed in a remarkably short period of time by new tech behemoths such as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Netflix.…”

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Digital Modernity

O’Hara

2022

FNT in Web Science

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Modernity" is a social, cultural or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. This monograph reviews narratives of digital modernity, without endorsing them; as narratives, they selectively discuss aspects of our sociotechnical context, descriptively, teleologically or normatively. Digital modernity narratives focus on the possibilities of the data gathered by an ambient data infrastructure, enabled by ubiquitous devices such as the smartphone, and activities such as social networking and e-commerce. Some emphasise continuities with 20th century modernity narratives, while others emphasise discontinuity, such as theories of the singularity. Digital modernity is characterised by: a subjunctive outlook where people's choices can be anticipated and improved upon; the valorisation of disruptive innovation on demand; and control provided by data analysis within a virtual realm (cyberspace or the metaverse) which can be extended and applied to the physical world (in such applications as the quantified self and the smart city). The synergies and tensions between these three aspects are explored, as are the opportunities for and dilemmas posed by misinformation. Five principles emerge from the study of relevant texts and business models: (1) the quantity of data being produced in the world has enabled, and been enabled by, technological, social, economic and

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What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns

Cited by 47 publications

References 41 publications

Defining and finding an endgame in education on race

Defining and finding an endgame in education on race

How can I lead social change when I feel like a fake? Exploring the impostor phenomenon among social justice allies in the workplace

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