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This project explores how racialised messages unfold in Twitter by focusing on the hashtag #notracist. Twitter users can include this (and other related) hashtags in messages to label seemingly ‘racist’ statements (and images/videos) as 'not racist'. The practice of hashtagging as a strategy of denying racist expression or propagating the ambiguities of race talk enables an understanding of the contested racialized digital ecology of Twitter. | This project explores how racialised messages unfold in Twitter by focusing on the hashtag #notracist. Twitter users can include this (and other related) hashtags in messages to label seemingly ‘racist’ statements (and images/videos) as 'not racist'. The practice of hashtagging as a strategy of denying racist expression or propagating the ambiguities of race talk enables an understanding of the contested racialized digital ecology of Twitter. | ||
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+ | Download article (full-text): [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303868342_notracist_Exploring_Racism_Denial_Talk_on_Twitter | #notracist: Exploring Racism Denial Talk on Twitter]] | ||
The project is funded by British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (Apr 2013 - May 2014). | The project is funded by British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (Apr 2013 - May 2014). |