“你不要惹黑推特!”:理解“激进”推特话语的Ubuntu方法

Motsamai Molefe, M. Ngcongo
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随着社交媒体的民主化和扩散,一个独特的推特用户虚拟社区出现了,被称为“黑色推特”。这个新兴社区的特点是讨论对黑人社区至关重要的文化问题,比如种族关系和一般的身份政治。“黑色推特”经常受到批评,因为它毫不羞耻地抨击那些被认为在表现身份和在推特上辩论的关键问题上持不真实立场的人。本文报告了一项研究,该研究采用小规模的在线人种学方法,从与南非公众人物和媒体人、女演员南迪·马迪达(Nandi Madida)的Twitter互动中收集推文样本。这篇文章认为,透过非洲规范的视角,也就是所谓的乌班图,南非黑人推特用户所感受到的苛刻,可以更有效地解读为批判人文主义的非洲文化价值的一部分。最终,乌班图的传统观念仅仅是对人类同胞的友好,这一观念受到了挑战,它被扩展到包括看似暴力的交流形式在内的概念。这种关于ubuntu的更有力的观点,其应用从黑色推特的背景中得到了证明,最终寻求使另一个人成为更好的人,即使这意味着公开批评。
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“You Don't Mess With Black Twitter!”: An Ubuntu Approach to Understanding “Militant” Twitter Discourse
Abstract The democratisation and proliferation of social media has seen the emergence of a distinct virtual community of Twitter users known as Black Twitter. This burgeoning community is characterised by discourses on cultural issues that are critical to the black community, such as race relations and identity politics in general. Black Twitter has often been criticised for its unashamed bashing of those who are perceived as displaying inauthenticity in their performance of identity and their positions on the critical issues debated on Twitter. This article reports on a study that employed a small-scale online ethnographic approach to collect a sample of tweets from a Twitter engagement with a South African public figure and media personality, the actress Nandi Madida. The article argues that through an African normative perspective known as ubuntu, the perceived harshness of South African Black Twitter users can be more usefully read as part of African cultural value of critical humanism. Ultimately, the traditional notion of ubuntu as simply friendliness towards a fellow human is challenged by broadening the concept to apply to notions that include seemingly violent forms of communication. This more robust view of ubuntu, whose application is demonstrated from the context of Black Twitter, ultimately seeks to make another person a better human even if it means public criticism.
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