Black Lives as Snuff: The Silent Complicity in Viewing Black Death

Mowatt, Rasul A.

doi:10.1353/bio.2018.0079

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“…A downside to video activism is overexposure, which can lead to desensitization [41]. When people are desensitized to perceived injustice, they are less likely to work toward emancipation [32]. Little of the extant literature on video activism delves into this aspect.…”

Section: Video Activismmentioning

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I Can’t Breathe: How Digital Video Becomes an Emancipatory Technology

George

George²,

Moquin

2021

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This grounded theory study explores how bystander digital video distributed via social media documents perceived injustice and serves as an emancipatory technology. Using 30 examples, the study provides insight into how bystander videos impact perceived social injustice with potential visual evidence and how bystander videos ultimately shape larger social movements. We find that potential evidentiary video events break down into eight theoretical areas: instigation, target, place, perceived injustice, tools, witness, potential evidence, and outcomes. We find that while bystander video spread through social media can indeed serve as an emancipatory technology with substantial positive outcomes, care must be taken to avoid oversaturation that could result in desensitization and lower efficacy.

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Section: Video Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Can’t Breathe: How Digital Video Becomes an Emancipatory Technology

George

George²,

Moquin

2021

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The Lynching of Black Women: A Historical Discussion of the Intersections of Oppression in the United States

Mowatt

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender

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Contested Understandings of Violence: Refiguring Modern and Postmodern Perspectives

Coenen

2024

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There are numerous conceptions of violence today, such as physical, psychological, emotional, structural, and epistemic. The question of which social phenomena are to be described as violence is itself a matter of furious dispute. In social theory, there is a widespread tendency to distinguish between ‘modern’ and ‘postmodern’ conceptions of violence. In this scheme, modern violence is primarily physical, while postmodern violence takes places across a broad spectrum of forms. The paper questions this binary. The co-occurrence and conflict between these forms of violence leads to a third form, which I call refigured violence. The refiguration of violence can be observed in three developments, which are mediatisation, polycontexturalisation, and translocalisation. I provide one illustration of these considerations with the example of so-called shock sites on the internet. In so doing, I emphasise that the sociology of knowledge can provide a valuable perspective for making sense of contemporary discourses about violence in all their complexity.

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Black Lives as Snuff: The Silent Complicity in Viewing Black Death

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

I Can’t Breathe: How Digital Video Becomes an Emancipatory Technology

I Can’t Breathe: How Digital Video Becomes an Emancipatory Technology

The Lynching of Black Women: A Historical Discussion of the Intersections of Oppression in the United States

Contested Understandings of Violence: Refiguring Modern and Postmodern Perspectives

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