Here we explore the current state of research on online resistance, discuss how future research can build on this body of knowledge, and make recommendations for scholars, activists, and educators invested in understanding and utilizing digital tools to empower online resistance to racism and oppression. Digital tools can amplify resistance efforts as online users and activists create space for community growth and support across geographic boundaries, organize users to engage in collective or direct action, and facilitate the widespread sharing of anti-racist and anti-oppressive ideas, actions, and imaginaries. Digital resistance can change racial power dynamics, reducing the norms and social rules that make it improper to challenge the racism embedded in behaviors, attitudes, and policies in a racial capitalist society. We situate our analysis of online resistance in adolescence and emerging adulthood—developmental periods where youth grappling with their identity, developing their ideologies about the world, and contending with dynamic, increasingly complex forms of racism that can threaten their safety, health, and life trajectory. For youth who came of age as digital natives, the online context provides a unique, accessible space to explore their identity, assert their voice, build community, and challenge hegemonic racial structures that threaten their wellbeing.

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Online Resistance: The Past, Present, and Future of Challenging Racism with Digital Tools

  • Rob Eschmann,
  • Nkemka Anyiwo,
  • Noor Toraif,
  • Stephanie M. Ortiz

摘要

Here we explore the current state of research on online resistance, discuss how future research can build on this body of knowledge, and make recommendations for scholars, activists, and educators invested in understanding and utilizing digital tools to empower online resistance to racism and oppression. Digital tools can amplify resistance efforts as online users and activists create space for community growth and support across geographic boundaries, organize users to engage in collective or direct action, and facilitate the widespread sharing of anti-racist and anti-oppressive ideas, actions, and imaginaries. Digital resistance can change racial power dynamics, reducing the norms and social rules that make it improper to challenge the racism embedded in behaviors, attitudes, and policies in a racial capitalist society. We situate our analysis of online resistance in adolescence and emerging adulthood—developmental periods where youth grappling with their identity, developing their ideologies about the world, and contending with dynamic, increasingly complex forms of racism that can threaten their safety, health, and life trajectory. For youth who came of age as digital natives, the online context provides a unique, accessible space to explore their identity, assert their voice, build community, and challenge hegemonic racial structures that threaten their wellbeing.