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Autoconstruction 2.0: Social Media Contestations of Racialized Violence in Complexo do Alemà£o

Activists and journalists in Complexo do Alemà£o, Rio de Janeiro are using social media to intervene in the violence that shapes their communities. In this article I draw on critical urban and digital media theory to understand how militarized policing, the spatialization of race, and discourses of criminalization influence favela populations. I examine how these discursive and material violences are motivating residents to autoconstruct new digital communities. Through digital autoconstruction, journalists and activists are using social media technologies to safely direct mobility, to witness police violence, and to unsettle socio"spatial imaginaries of endemic crime. As such, they are deploying digital practices to disrupt material, epistemological, and discursive mechanisms of social control. These actions show that digital technologies are always"already embodied and take shape through material histories, such as those of racialized state violence. Journalists and activists in Complexo do Alemà£o ultimately demonstrate that targets of violence are not simply victims of digital and violent surveillance, but are active in creating new digital relationships of care across diverse scales, transforming these technologies in the process.

» Author: Carolyn Prouse

» Source: Wiley

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