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Racialisation and the Media: Whose Platform

The popularity of TikTok has ushered in a new, algorithmically-mediated environment for exploring, perpetuating, and subverting narratives about race and racial justice. This panel discussion examined the possibilities and dangers of TikTok as a venue for progressive speech accompanied by the screening of TikToks chosen by the panellists. Panellists, reflected on the unique affordances of the platform, how people of colour are navigating this new landscape to make themselves heard, and how racial dynamics on the TikTok play out differently across the globe. Part of Racialisation and the Media: From Television to Twitter, a virtual conference held over 3 days in April 2021 organised by the RAI Esmond Harmsworth Scholar Sage Goodwin and the Oxford Internet Institute’s Cindy Ma. The conference brought together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences in conversation with media practitioners outside the academy to explore the intersections of media, technology, and race - past and present. Speakers: Crystal Abidin (@wishcrys) is a digital anthropologist and ethnographer of vernacular internet cultures. Her published books include Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018, Emerald Publishing), Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (2020, Polity Press), and tumblr (2021, Polity Press). Her next book is TikTok and Youth Cultures (2022, Emerald Publishing). She is Associate Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Ryan Ken (@Ryan_Ken_Acts) is a writer and actor who uses humor and an unconventional perspective to explore politics, history, race, and social dynamics. He has performed as part of Michigan Actor's Studio, Green Shirt Studio, and The Agency Theater Collective in Chicago. His parodies and satirizations have amassed millions of views across Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram and have been featured in NPR, GQ, Us Weekly, Funny or Die, Buzzfeed, and the LA Times. He is also co-host of the podcast Let Me Back Up. Mutale Nkonde (@mutalenkonde) is the founding director of AI for the People, a non profit communications firm that uses journalism, arts and culture to advance racial justice in tech. She currently sits on the TikTok Content Moderation Advisory Board, advises the Center of Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University and is a key constituent for the United Nations 3C Table on AI. Chair: Iyone Agboraw is a doctoral candidate in Area Studies (Africa) at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and the convenor of the Oxford Research Center in the Humanities Race and Resistance Network. Her research foregrounds the emotional health response to uncertainty and challenges the current epistemic thought on what constitutes African uncertainty.