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，包括以下主题：仇外心理、社交媒体、公民身份、剥夺公民权和身份，以说明人们与英国脱欧的关系。此外，我还探讨了数字技术和有争议的空间如何影响移民体验的问题，并鼓励我对此进行更多研究。国家叙事不断成为我研究的重点，博士项目：“英国脱欧，不文明和数字竞赛”，将使我有机会调查英国脱欧在线下和在线世界的影响。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，评估Facebook对人们对英国脱欧体验的影响与该项目有关，这将是有价值的。基于项目描述中概述的研究问题，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”如何影响线上和线下世界的人们。根据我的经验，我知道这些强有力的视觉和话语信息会在情感上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，尤其是Facebook社区，在波兰移民中煽动对英国脱欧和“假新闻”的恐惧，在这些网络世界中，危言耸听的策略是显而易见的。然而，我也承认，社交媒体可以成为移民在跨国社区中归属感的来源，也是解决敌对政治环境所造成的问题的工具。这些项目旨在产生一种新的知识，关于不安全、不文明和排外种族主义的数字反策略的形态和形式，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态度来增加项目。我希望回答以下主要研究问题：公民社会团体如何通过数字平台制定和传播另类的视觉和话语信息（接受、善良、包容）？什么样的消息会成功？,为什么?通过进一步参与有关欧洲移民社区的人种学、定量和定性研究，以及与约克、利兹和谢菲尔德等城镇的当地英国居民的合作，了解公投如何促进社会运动和民间社会团体反种族主义、反仇外心理和反排他活动的“新领域”。根据项目目标，我希望分析这些群体如何应对英国社会的不安全感，以及这是否会对移民和当地英国社区产生影响。研究新技术如何让那些经历和倡导不文明行为的人获得权力，将会对当地政治团体产生有趣的影响，以及这种权力在线上和线下的体验有何不同。我希望通过我对不同群体和主题领域的研究，通过数字社交媒体，围绕叙事、图像和统计“证据”流通的新公式，回答进一步的问题，这些群体和主题领域包括：欧洲移民社区中心、极右翼政治团体、留欧派、脱欧派和其他当地社区。约克、利兹和谢菲尔德是成熟的调查地区，它们的文化多样性和公投中这三个城市的优势非常小，分析这些城市关于英国退欧、不文明和数字争论的问题将是很有趣的。

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.