New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet
In this article we analyse the emergence of Internet activity addressing the experiences of young people in two British communities: South Asian and Chinese.We focus on two web sites: www.barficulture.com and www.britishbornchinese.org.uk, drawing on interviews with site editors, content analysis of...
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| description | In this article we analyse the emergence of Internet activity addressing the experiences of young people in two British communities: South Asian and Chinese.We focus on two web sites: www.barficulture.com and www.britishbornchinese.org.uk, drawing on interviews with site editors, content analysis of the discussion forums,
and E-mail exchanges with site users.
Our analysis of these two web sites shows how collective identities still matter, being redefined rather than erased by online interaction. We understand the site content through the notion of reflexive racialisation. We use this term to modify the stress given to individualisation in accounts of reflexive modernisation. In addition
we question the allocation of racialised meaning from above implied by the concept of racialisation. Internet discussion forums can act as witnesses to social inequalities and through sharing experiences of racism and marginalisation, an oppositional social perspective may develop.
The online exchanges have had offline consequences: social gatherings, charitable donations and campaigns against adverse media representations. These web sites have begun to change the terms of engagement between these ethnic groups
and the wider society,and they have considerable potential to develop new forms of social action. |
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| spelling | nottingham-7392020-05-04T20:30:11Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/739/ New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet Parker, David Song, Miri In this article we analyse the emergence of Internet activity addressing the experiences of young people in two British communities: South Asian and Chinese.We focus on two web sites: www.barficulture.com and www.britishbornchinese.org.uk, drawing on interviews with site editors, content analysis of the discussion forums, and E-mail exchanges with site users. Our analysis of these two web sites shows how collective identities still matter, being redefined rather than erased by online interaction. We understand the site content through the notion of reflexive racialisation. We use this term to modify the stress given to individualisation in accounts of reflexive modernisation. In addition we question the allocation of racialised meaning from above implied by the concept of racialisation. Internet discussion forums can act as witnesses to social inequalities and through sharing experiences of racism and marginalisation, an oppositional social perspective may develop. The online exchanges have had offline consequences: social gatherings, charitable donations and campaigns against adverse media representations. These web sites have begun to change the terms of engagement between these ethnic groups and the wider society,and they have considerable potential to develop new forms of social action. Blackwell Publishing 2006 Article PeerReviewed Parker, David and Song, Miri (2006) New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet. Sociological Review, 54 (3). pp. 575-594. ethnicities online reflexive racialisation internet http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0038-0261&site=1 |
| spellingShingle | ethnicities online reflexive racialisation internet Parker, David Song, Miri New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| title | New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| title_full | New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| title_fullStr | New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| title_full_unstemmed | New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| title_short | New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| title_sort | new ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet |
| topic | ethnicities online reflexive racialisation internet |
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