What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns
What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns
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Twitter 的“取消文化”标签中丢失了什么？揭露种族主义运动的一些局限性？
DOI：
10.1177/0957926520977215
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
D. Machin
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作者：
Gwen Bouvier;D. Machin
Twitter上攻击那些发表种族主义或仇外言论的人的运动是有价值的，可以提高不容忍任何形式种族主义的观点的公众形象。它们还表明，我们的主要机构未能解决重要的社会正义问题。但人们担心，Twitter等社交媒体倾向于极端、道德暴行、缺乏细微差别和粗鲁无礼，这些因素塑造了问题的表现方式。在这篇文章中，我们使用批评性话语分析，研究了三个谴责种族主义行为的推特标签。我们问种族主义和反种族主义在这些标签上是如何表现的？我们展示了这些事件如何歪曲了社会中种族主义的基本方面，分散了种族理论家们的注意力，这些事件告诉我们目前关于种族主义最重要的事情。这些发现对所有这样的推特社会正义运动都有影响。
Twitter campaigns attacking those who make racist or xenophobic statements are valuable, raising the public profile of opinions that will not tolerate racism in any form. They also indicate how our major institutions are failing to address important matters of social justice. But there is concern that social media, such as Twitter, tends to extremes, moral outrages, lack of nuance and incivility, which shape how issues become represented. In this paper, using Critical Discourse Analysis, we look at three Twitter hashtags calling-out racist behaviour. We ask how racism and anti-racism is represented on these hashtags? We show how these misrepresent fundamental aspects of racism in society, distracting from, what race theorists would argue, is the most important thing these incidents tell us about racism at this present time. The findings have consequences for all such Twitter social justice campaigns.