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| Title: | Reconfiguring race in the online interactions of South African undergraduates |
| Authors: | Conradie, Marthinus S. Brokensha, Susan I. |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Periodical: | Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies (ISSN 1992-6049) |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 538-556 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | racism Whites students |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2016.1226731 |
| Abstract: | A central tenet of discourse analysis is that, while authors can employ multiple textual devices to influence the interpretations that readers draw, the outcome of the meaning-making process is mediated by pre-existing discursive frames, which readers draw upon during the process. By examining readers' reactions to texts that confront them with difficult knowledge, insights can be gleaned into the underlying frames that structure readers' responses and through which they are able to avoid or repudiate particularly troubling dimensions of this knowledge. Deploying this perspective, several discourse analyses have probed into the ways subjects who identify as white are able to acknowledge race as a factor in social hierarchy, but without allowing this recognition to stimulate critical analysis. The present study scrutinises an online forum, which required a sample of South African students to discuss the covert manifestation of racism, based on a text from a popular magazine that promotes the value of acknowledging personal complicity in everyday racism. The analysis is focused on the discursive frames through which respondents seek to resist and/or concur with this position, as well as on the way respondents situate themselves as members of the Born Free generation. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |
