Titley, Gavan
(2014)
No apologies for
cross‑posting: European
trans-media space and the digital circuitries of racism.
Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 5 (1).
pp. 41-55.
ISSN 2040-4344
Abstract
This article proposes points of departure for researching the circulation and assemblage
of racist ideas and racializing discourses in the trans-media space of interactive,
hybrid digital media. It contends that racist mobilizations are increasingly
invested in organized and opportunistic communicative actions that depend on the
integration of interactive digital media to a wider media ecology and European political environment. Further, if social media can be understood as a constant ‘invitation to discourse’, then they also provide an invitation to discourse on the nature and scope of racism in a putatively ‘post-racial’ era. In contending that the
affordances and dynamics of social media networks are politically generative in relation
to the politics of racism, it proposes working with malleable resources in the sociology of racism to develop approaches that are not limited to the established
focus on extremist sites, but that can account both for the circuitries of digital media
exchange and the particularities of regional racial formations.
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