Understanding Digital Racism: Networks, Algorithms, Scale

Digital technologies are transforming racism, making it harder to challenge. Digital racism takes many forms, such as viral memes, swarming, algorithmic classification, and racial profiling. Understanding Digital Racism explores the rise, dissemination, and evolution of contemporary racism in the digital realm, offering an innovative approach for understanding how racism is manifested and remade through digital technologies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 132 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Digital technologies have rapidly proliferated and transformed the landscape of racism, making it increasingly challenging to challenge and understand. Digital racism manifests in various forms, including viral memes circulating on social media platforms, targeted harassment of people of color by networked users, hidden algorithmic classification and sorting, and racial profiling in policing and surveillance systems. The complexity and diversity of technologically mediated racisms raise questions about whether sufficient attention has been given to the digital processes and environments that shape race. "Understanding Digital Racism" delves into the digital realm as a race-making technology, exploring the emergence, dissemination, and evolution of contemporary racism. Sanjay Sharma presents a novel approach for understanding how racism, as an informational and im/material post-racial phenomenon, is shaped and reshaped through digital technologies. By foregrounding the sociotechnical entanglements of racism and digital technologies, Sharma offers a comprehensive analysis of networked relations, information flows, subjectivation, and affects, which are essential in addressing the production of digital racism.

Weight: 408g
Dimension: 237 x 157 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786613936