[Air-L] 'Tweeting Trump': the alt-right & mainstreaming of white nationalism - Prof. Jessie Daniels in Australia

[Justine Humphry]

'Tweeting Trump': the alt-right & mainstreaming of white nationalism


Seminar by Professor Jessie Daniels, Hunter College, New York City visiting
Australia for the Building Digital Antiracism Capacity collaboration at
Western Sydney University by Associate Professor Alana Lentin and Dr
Justine Humphry


**** Also broadcast live on #Periscope go to @MediaAtSydney ****



Date: Friday, 9 December 2016

Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Venue: MECO Seminar Room S226, John Woolley Building (A20)

Register Free Event - online via Eventbrite

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About the seminar

In this engaging talk, Jessie Daniels draws on 20 years of research to
demonstrate that white supremacy is neither new nor an aberration, but
rather a consistent feature of the US political landscape. Savvy white
nationalists and members of the “altright” movement use culture jamming
tactics on Facebook and Twitter to inject racist memes like #WhiteGenocide
into popular political and cultural discussions. And,
@realDonaldTrump retweets them all to his 5 million-plus followers. In
response to this increased visibility and amplification of white supremacy
in the mainstream of US political culture, white liberals express shock
at what they perceive is a new development. It is not.



About the speaker

Jessie Daniels is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, New York City,
and an internationally recognized expert in Internet manifestations of
racism. Her visit to Australia is being supported by Western Sydney
University’s Building Digital Antiracism Capacity collaboration. Jessie is
the author of White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2009), along with dozens of scholarly articles. Since 2007,
Daniels has published Racism Review, a credible and reliable resource for
anyone seeking evidence-based research on race, racism, ethnicity and
immigration. Forbes named her “one of 20 inspiring women to follow on
Twitter.” She tweets as @JessieNYC.

For more information or queries, contact chris.chesher at sydney.edu.au
or *justine.humphry at sydney.edu.au
<justine.humphry at sydney.edu.au>*