Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 5 minutes ago
Increasingly, digital technology and social media are becoming important for changing understandings of race and racism. Algorithms, interfaces, and the design of platforms and websites, such as dating apps or face recognition software generate racial information of various kinds. Cyber-racism is becoming more and more of a danger with the far right using the internet to target people of colour and antiracist activists. Social media and technology are also becoming important sites for antiracist resistance. We will examine these developments and consider what impact digital technology and social media have on our daily lives as the divide between the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ is all but non-existent.
Increasingly, digital technology and social media are becoming important for changing understandings of race and racism. Algorithms, interfaces, and the design of platforms and websites, such as dating apps or face recognition software generate racial information of various kinds. Cyber-racism is becoming more and more of a danger with the far right using the internet to target people of colour and antiracist activists. Social media and technology are also becoming important sites for antiracist resistance. We will examine these developments and consider what impact digital technology and social media have on our daily lives as the divide between the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ is all but non-existent.
