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Toxic WOCs: Constructing Race and Gender in Digital Spaces

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Roopsi Risam
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This document contains excerpts from various sources discussing issues of race, gender, and toxicity in digital spaces and on social media platforms like Twitter. It includes quotes highlighting how women of color are often overlooked online and in feminist movements. One quote questions where space is for those without internet access. Another discusses how online spaces allowed for more casual writing and reader participation. A further quote notes some digital feminists say these spaces have become toxic, not due to sexist trolls but clashes between feminists. Statistics on Twitter users globally and in the U.S. are also presented, as well as implications such as the spread of toxic discourses and co-optation of platforms.

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Toxic WOCs: Constructing Race and Gender in Digital Spaces Roopika Risam Salem State University @roopikarisam
#WOCHashtagsRising
#TheNumbers
#TheNumbers
#FemFuture Women of color and other groups are already overlooked for adequate media attention and already struggle disproportionately in this culture of scarcity. Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti
#FemFuture An unfunded online feminist movement isnt merely a threat to the livelihood of these hard-working activists, but a threat to the larger feminist movement itself Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti
#Reactions Where is the space in all of these #femfuture movements for people who dont have internet access? -Mikki Kendall
#FeministBlogospheres Freed from the boundaries of print, writers could blur the lines between formal and casual writing; between a call to arms, a confession, and a stand-up routineand this new looseness of form in turn emboldened readers to join in, to take risks in the safety of the shared spotlight. -Emily Nussbaum
#FeministLandmines Many of the most avid digital feminists will tell you that its become toxic. Indeed, theres a nascent genre of essays by people who feel emotionally savaged by their involvement in itnot because of sexist trolls, but because of the slashing righteousness of other feminists. -Michelle Goldberg
#SpatialWebs The Internet is the modern-day agora. It is increasingly a place where so many people are coming together and doing very meaningful, very real things, so that the social patterns prevailing on the Internet are of interest to everybody. -Katherine Cross
#WhoTweets # Total registered users: ~1 billion # Unique monthly visitors to Twitter.com: 36 million # Country with Most Users: U.S. # Percentage of Twitter MAUs located outside U.S.: 77%
#WherePeopleTweet
#TweetsPerCapita
#USTweeters
#Implications # U.S. media muckracking # Replication and amplification of race and gender on Twitter # Viral movement of toxicity discourses # U.S. and U.S. feminist co-optation of Twitter

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Toxic WOCs: Constructing Race and Gender in Digital Spaces

  • 1. Toxic WOCs: Constructing Race and Gender in Digital Spaces Roopika Risam Salem State University @roopikarisam
  • 5. #FemFuture Women of color and other groups are already overlooked for adequate media attention and already struggle disproportionately in this culture of scarcity. Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti
  • 6. #FemFuture An unfunded online feminist movement isnt merely a threat to the livelihood of these hard-working activists, but a threat to the larger feminist movement itself Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti
  • 7. #Reactions Where is the space in all of these #femfuture movements for people who dont have internet access? -Mikki Kendall
  • 8. #FeministBlogospheres Freed from the boundaries of print, writers could blur the lines between formal and casual writing; between a call to arms, a confession, and a stand-up routineand this new looseness of form in turn emboldened readers to join in, to take risks in the safety of the shared spotlight. -Emily Nussbaum
  • 9. #FeministLandmines Many of the most avid digital feminists will tell you that its become toxic. Indeed, theres a nascent genre of essays by people who feel emotionally savaged by their involvement in itnot because of sexist trolls, but because of the slashing righteousness of other feminists. -Michelle Goldberg
  • 10. #SpatialWebs The Internet is the modern-day agora. It is increasingly a place where so many people are coming together and doing very meaningful, very real things, so that the social patterns prevailing on the Internet are of interest to everybody. -Katherine Cross
  • 11. #WhoTweets # Total registered users: ~1 billion # Unique monthly visitors to Twitter.com: 36 million # Country with Most Users: U.S. # Percentage of Twitter MAUs located outside U.S.: 77%
  • 15. #Implications # U.S. media muckracking # Replication and amplification of race and gender on Twitter # Viral movement of toxicity discourses # U.S. and U.S. feminist co-optation of Twitter