Contested Publics: Racist rants, bystander action and social media acts of citizenship McCosker, Anthony and Johns, Amelia 2014, Contested Publics: Racist rants, bystander action and social media acts of citizenship, Media International Australia, no. 151, pp. 66-72. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Contested Publics: Racist rants, bystander action and social media acts of citizenship Author(s) McCosker, Anthony Johns, Amelia Journal name Media International Australia Issue number 151 Start page 66 End page 72 Total pages 7 Publisher University of Queensland Place of publication North Ryde, NSW Publication date 2014-05 ISSN 1329-878X Keyword(s) online racism bystander anti-racism social media citizenship Summary While social media tools enable new kinds of creativity, cultural expression and forms of public, civic and political participation, we often hear more about the harms that arise from instances of trolling and 'aberrant' online participation, including racist provocation. In media and communications research, these issues have been framed in a number of ways, usually focusing on new tools for civic engagement, political participation and digital inclusion. Government policy has been shifting steadily towards potential regulation of social media 'misuse' in relation to appropriate forms of 'digital citizenship'. It is in this evolving context that we consider several instances of cultural or nationalistic provocation and conflict in which social media platforms (YouTube and Facebook in particular) have been central to the social dynamic that has unfolded. We examine the recording and uploading of racist rants and associated bystander actions on public transport in Australia and elsewhere around the world. In this article, we contend that while racism remains an issue in uses of social media platforms such as YouTube, this focus often overshadows these platforms' productive potential, including their capacity to support agonistic publics from which productive expressions of cultural citizenship and solidarity might emerge. Language eng Field of Research 200101 Communication Studies 200104 Media Studies Socio Economic Objective 950204 The Media HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2014, University of Queensland Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30064927 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 14 Jul 2014, 21:09:24 EST Tue, 15 Jul 2014, 14:04:23 EST Wed, 16 Jul 2014, 09:25:30 EST Wed, 06 Aug 2014, 15:46:02 EST Wed, 06 Aug 2014, 15:53:17 EST Wed, 06 Aug 2014, 16:02:06 EST Mon, 11 Aug 2014, 12:53:53 EST Tue, 02 Dec 2014, 10:01:42 EST Tue, 02 Dec 2014, 10:04:16 EST Tue, 02 Dec 2014, 10:05:08 EST Tue, 18 Aug 2015, 09:41:12 EST Wed, 11 Jan 2017, 10:04:39 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 622 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 14 Jul 2014, 21:09:03 EST by Amelia Johns

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