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Segregation versus Self-determination: A Black and White Debate on Canada's First Africentric SchoolChen, Shaun Sheng Yuan 02 June 2011 (has links)
The racialized realities faced by Black students provide an impetus to examine the controversy over Canada's first Africentric Alternative School, approved on January 29, 2008 by the Toronto District School Board. Newspaper articles, editorials and letters to the editor, as well as speeches by delegations and trustees, provide a rich snapshot of the arguments put forth in the heated political debate. Through the lens of equity and critical race theory, the diverse and divergent stances taken by both proponents and opponents of the school are analysed and understood. A conceptual framework of hidden and public transcripts (Scott, 1990) is used to distinguish arguments that reflect on the lived experiences of Black students from those that reiterate the dominant discourses of liberal democratic societies. The findings emerge as three opposing sets of themes that reveal a transcript reflective of the ongoing salience of racism within ostensibly liberal claims to racial equality.
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Segregation versus Self-determination: A Black and White Debate on Canada's First Africentric SchoolChen, Shaun Sheng Yuan 02 June 2011 (has links)
The racialized realities faced by Black students provide an impetus to examine the controversy over Canada's first Africentric Alternative School, approved on January 29, 2008 by the Toronto District School Board. Newspaper articles, editorials and letters to the editor, as well as speeches by delegations and trustees, provide a rich snapshot of the arguments put forth in the heated political debate. Through the lens of equity and critical race theory, the diverse and divergent stances taken by both proponents and opponents of the school are analysed and understood. A conceptual framework of hidden and public transcripts (Scott, 1990) is used to distinguish arguments that reflect on the lived experiences of Black students from those that reiterate the dominant discourses of liberal democratic societies. The findings emerge as three opposing sets of themes that reveal a transcript reflective of the ongoing salience of racism within ostensibly liberal claims to racial equality.
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人/物共構之社群媒體人際監控與抵抗——以Facebook為例 / Co-construction of Social Media Interpersonal Surveillance and Resistance in Facebook蔡依桃, Chuah, Thoo Unknown Date (has links)
本研究以「社會物質政治性」觀點主張Facebook的人際監控是由人/物共構而產生的政治性現象。Facebook所打造的物質展現,因無法避免地鑲嵌了「連結」意圖,以及由「人」集體構成的「分享」規範,在人與物的互動交引纏繞之下,而意外構成了人際監控。
本研究透過綜合式研究方法,包括田野觀察、半結構式深度訪談以及自我經驗書寫與分析,檢視Facebook使用者與Facebook之物質展現的互動關係如何構成監控與抵抗發現,人與物所產出的「網絡」及「個人脈絡」不但讓人們所設下的各種界線被無限擴張而構成了「無限擴張的網絡」、甚至因為「網絡」當中未曾消弭的各種權力關係,以及揭露人們所思所處所做的「個人脈絡」構成了「個人脈絡之曝露」,而成為了助長人際監控最重要的元素。
因此人們針對「網絡」的抵抗進行了「多重舞台隱藏設定」,以及針對「個人脈絡」進行了「展演式公開演出」抵抗。由於在強調互動與分享的Facebook當中,人與人之間形成的「監控」已不再扮演以往的霸權角色,而是形成了溢散的一種可被意識的力量之時,人們的「抵抗」亦脫離規避強權之目的性,並成為「抵抗者」為了保持自身的可視性以創造與維持社會關係,而策略性地透過Scott(1990)提出的「公開文本」進行「展演式公開演出」,以及透過「隱藏文本」進行「多重舞台隱藏設定」規避式抵抗。因此,人們在社群媒體的「抵抗」為一種挪用「公開/隱藏文本」不斷進行切換與游移的抵抗演出,進行部分的掩蓋、部分的揭露來達到人們預期目的,藉以尋求不那樣地被牽制的可能性。
透過「社會物質政治性」這樣的視野,本研究並非如以往具有科技決定色彩主張「物」牽制了人,也並未擁抱社會建構觀點,而是試圖提出由「人/物共構」的互動關係之下,因為意想不到的政治性例如物質的展現與特性、還有人們的互動實踐,皆可以扮演構成監控與抵抗的角色。 / Based on the perspective of “sociomaterialitics” this study argued that Facebook interpersonal surveillance was the political result of co-construction of human and material. Connectivity intention that hide beneath the material presentation of Facebook as well as the collective sharing normativity, entangled through the interactivities between human and material have resulted the unintentional construction of interpersonal surveillance.
By using field observation, in-depth interview and analysis of self-experience, this study is able to explore the interactive relationship between human and material to find out how surveillance and resistance are co-constructed in Facebook. Network(ed) and personal context are found to have damage various boundaries of users which caused them to face “unlimited network expansion”, and because of the “underlying still-existence of power relations” in the network(ed), as well as “personal context” that caused “exposure of context”, are believed to have augmented surveillance in Facebook.
People resist to network(ed) with “hidden setting of multi-stages”, and resist to exposure of personal context with “official performance”. However, as resistance was no longer the direct opposition to the oppression of dominant power in Facebook, hence “resistors” maintain their visibility and social relations strategically through the performance of “official transcript” and hiding themselves from surveillance through the “hidden transcript” in order to avoid unwanted results simultaneously (Scott, 1990). Therefore resistance in social media has transformed into “official/hidden transcripts” in which people switching their “official/hidden transcripts” constantly, continuously and strategically in order to partially performance and partially hiding themselves.
As Facebook is a place that people voluntarily disclosed themselves, and hence interpersonal surveillance is seen as a conscious force in diffusion form, and people’s resistance is a self-reflexive strategic actions in liquidity form. People appropriated resistance to achieve intentional goals in order to explore possibilities of less containment derived from the co-construction of surveillance in social media.
Through the perspective of “sociomaterialitics”, this study is able to escape from technological determinism and social constructionism, in order to embrace the idea of co-construction.
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