Digital technologies are proliferating and transforming racism,
complicating our understanding, and making contemporary racism
increasingly harder to challenge. Digital racism takes many forms,
such as viral memes circulating via social media platforms; the
swarming of networked users targeting people of colour; hidden
algorithmic classification and sorting; and the racial profiling of
policing and surveillance systems. The variance and complexity of
technologically mediated racisms begs the question of whether adequate
attention has been paid to digital processes and environments through
which race materializes. Understanding Digital Racism analyzes the
digital realm as a race-making technology, by exploring the rise,
dissemination, and evolution of contemporary racism. Sanjay Sharma
offers an innovative approach for understanding how racism-as
informational and im/material post-racial phenomena-is manifested and
remade through digital technologies. Digital racism is grasped through
foregrounding the sociotechnical entanglements of racism and digital
technologies. An analysis of networked relations, information flows,
subjectivation and affects are critical to addressing the production
of digital racism.
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Networks, Algorithms, Scale
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786613950
Publisert
2024
Utgave
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Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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