Ideology as/of platform affordance and Black feminist conceptualisations of "cancelling": Reading Twitter

lasade-anderson, temi and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2024. Ideology as/of platform affordance and Black feminist conceptualisations of "cancelling": Reading Twitter. Television and New Media 10.1177/15274764241277467

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Abstract

As Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter highlights, platforms’ affordances extend further than UI choices and content formats emphasized. Extant work addresses that political perspectives are implicated in the affordances of platforms; however, the notion of “ideology as/of affordance” requires more scholarly attention, namely, from a Black feminist position which grapples with the raced and gendered dimensions of how such shaping of affordances is understood and experienced in digital contexts. A Black feminist analysis offers a critical intervention that examines the dynamics between ideology, digital culture, and relational experiences of autonomy. Thus, our article outlines how “ideology as/of affordance” is a helpful intervention for illuminating the power relations by which both “cancel culture” and “platform affordances” are defined. Specifically, we explicate how white supremacist ideology underpins platform affordances, which in turn shape who is “canceled,” and consider the key connections and disconnections between them.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1527-4764
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	15 July 2024
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2024 12:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170628

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