A Digital Postracial Parity? Black Women’s Everyday Resistance and Rethinking Online Media Culture

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-04-29 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcz046

Raven Maragh-Lloyd

引用次数: 5

Abstract

This article examines and critiques digital media culture and its embedded postracial logics through the resistance strategies of Black women online. Specifically, I am interested in everyday resistance strategies as “seemingly innocuous” communication, which is understood from theorizations of “hidden transcripts” that black publics utilize to counteract dominance. In order to explore “everyday resistance” I employed focus groups with 20 Black women and present patterns of resistance strategies online, such as visual signifiers and posting news articles. Secondly, I interrogate how these resistance strategies “talk back” to and circumvent the underpinnings of digital media culture through the postracial logics of individuality and networked influence. Ultimately, Black women’s interconnected identities reveal the flaws of digital culture as postracial by demonstrating their resistance strategies that must work around any assumption of a “postracial parity.”

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数字化的产后平等?黑人女性的日常反抗与对网络媒体文化的反思

本文通过黑人女性在网络上的抵抗策略来审视和批判数字媒体文化及其所蕴含的战后逻辑。具体地说，我对日常抵抗策略作为“看似无害”的交流感兴趣，这是从黑人公众用来对抗统治的“隐藏文本”的理论中理解的。为了探索“日常抵抗”，我与20名黑人女性进行了焦点小组讨论，并在网上展示了抵抗策略的模式，比如视觉符号和发布新闻文章。其次，我质疑这些抵抗策略如何通过个性和网络影响的后时代逻辑“反击”和规避数字媒体文化的基础。最终，黑人女性相互关联的身份揭示了数字文化作为后种族的缺陷，通过展示她们必须围绕任何“后种族平等”假设工作的抵抗策略。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

5.90%

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期刊介绍： CCC provides an international forum for critical research in communication, media, and cultural studies. We welcome high-quality research and analyses that place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale. CCC is especially interested in critical scholarship that engages with emerging lines of inquiry across the humanities and social sciences. We seek to explore the place of mediated communication in current topics of theorization and cross-disciplinary research (including affect, branding, posthumanism, labor, temporality, ordinariness, and networked everyday life, to name just a few examples). In the coming years, we anticipate publishing special issues on these themes.