Brexit, incivility and digital contestation.

我最初研究的一个重点是新的敌对政治环境如何影响人们，包括仇外心理，社交媒体，公民身份，剥夺公民权和身份等主题，以说明人们与英国退欧的关系。此外，我处理了有关数字技术和有争议的空间的作用如何影响移民体验的问题，我被鼓励更多地调查这一点。国家叙事不断成为我的研究重点，博士项目：“英国脱欧，不文明和数字竞争”，将使我有机会调查英国脱欧在离线和在线世界的影响。在我的研究中，我分析了跨国Facebook社区如何在当地英国移民社区中制造恐惧，并进一步评估Facebook对人们在该项目中的英国退欧体验的影响。在项目描述中概述的研究问题的基础上，我希望调查通过数字社交媒体平台传播的叙事，图像和统计“证据”如何影响在线和离线世界的人们。从我的经验中，我知道这些强有力的视觉和话语信息会影响人们在英国的归属感和“宾至如归”的感觉。通过我的研究，我也了解到，Facebook社区尤其煽动波兰移民对英国脱欧和“假新闻”的恐惧，在这些网络世界中，散布谣言的策略很明显。然而，我也承认，社交媒体可以成为移民在跨国社区中的归属感来源，也是解决敌对政治环境所造成问题的工具。这些项目旨在产生有关数字反战略的形状和形式的新知识，以应对不安全，不文明和异种种族主义，其方法令人耳目一新，我可以通过提供我现有的经验和对数字媒体新研究的开放性来补充该项目。我希望回答的主要研究问题：民间社会团体如何制定和传播替代视觉和话语信息（接受，善良，包容性）通过数字平台？什么样的消息会成功？为什麽？通过对欧洲移民社区以及约克、利兹和谢菲尔德城镇的英国当地居民进行人种学、定量和定性研究，了解全民投票如何推动社会运动和民间社会团体开展反种族主义、反仇外心理和反排斥活动的“新领域”。我希望分析这些群体如何对抗英国社会的不安全感，以及这是否对移民和当地英国社区产生影响。调查新技术如何增强那些经历和倡导反对不文明行为的人的权能，对于地方政治团体以及这种权能在网上和网下的体验如何不同，将是有趣的。我希望通过我的研究，通过数字社交媒体，围绕叙事，图像和统计“证据”的流通的新提法回答进一步的问题，重点关注不同的群体和主题领域，如：欧洲移民社区中心，极右翼政治团体，留欧运动，离开运动和其他当地社区。约克，利兹和谢菲尔德，是成熟的调查领域，他们的文化多样性和极窄的边缘为三个城市的公投，这将是有趣的分析这些城市关于英国脱欧，不文明和数字诽谤。

A key focus of my original research was how the new hostile political environment has affected people, including themes of: xenophobia, social media, citizenship, disenfranchisement and identity to illustrate people's relationships with Brexit. Furthermore, I tackled issues concerning how the role of digital technologies and contested space has impacted the migrant experience and I am encouraged to investigate this more. State narratives continually came into the focus of my research, and the PHD project: 'Brexit, Incivility and Digital Contestation', would allow me the opportunity to investigate the effects of Brexit in both offline and online worlds. Within my research I analysed how transnational Facebook communities acted to create fear within the local British migrant communities and it would be valuable to assess Facebook's influence on people's experience of Brexit further in relation to the project. Building on the research questions outlined in the project description I wish to investigate how the circulation of narratives, imagery and statistical 'evidence' via digital social media platforms impacts people in both online and offline worlds. I know from my experience that these powerful visual and discursive messages affect people emotionally in relation to belonging and feeling "at home" in Britain. Through my research, I also understand that Facebook communities especially, incite fear in Polish migrants regarding Brexit and "Fake News" and scaremongering tactics are apparent in these online worlds. However, I also acknowledge that social media can be a source of belonging in a transnational community for migrants and additionally a vehicle to tackle the issues that the hostile political environment has made. The projects aim to generate a new knowledge about the shape and form of the digital counter-strategies to insecurity, incivility and xeno-racism is refreshing in its approach and I could add to the project by offering my existing experience and openness to new research in digital media. I hope to answer the main research questions of: How do civil society groups formulate and disseminate alternative visual and discursive messages (of acceptance, kindness, inclusivity) via digital platforms? What kind of messages succeed? And why? By engaging further with ethnographic, quantitative and qualitative research concerning European migrant communities but also with local British residents in the towns of York, Leeds and Sheffield to see how the referendum has contributed to the 'new frontiers' of anti-racist, anti-xenophobic and anti-exclusionary activity by social movements and civil society groups.Working with the projects objectives, I hope to analyse the how these groups combat insecurity in UK society and whether this has an effect on migrant and local British communities. Investigating how new technologies work to empower those who experience and advocate against uncivil action, will be interesting in regard to local political groups and how this empowerment is experienced differently online and offline. I hope to answer further questions around the new formulations of the circulation of narratives, imagery and statistical 'evidence' via digital social media throughout my research focusing on different groups and subject areas such as: European migrant community centres, Hard-right political groups, Remain campaigners, Leave campaigners and other local communities. York, Leeds and Sheffield, are ripe areas for investigation, with their cultural diversity and extremely narrow margins for the three cities in the referendum and it will be interesting to analyse these cities regarding Brexit, incivility and digital contestation.