Affect 2018: Lynn Cyrin
Channel: Affect
Date: 2018-09-28

Patterns of Digital Gentrification
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Online platforms often create rules that, in the service of making a particular type of user more comfortable, require marginalized users to only talk about a subset of their lives. I call this "digital gentrification", and when understood as such we can start consistently identifying / un-working / resisting its effects. I'm going to talk about a few vectors of digital gentrification, relative to their effect on marginalized communities. Those being: whorephobia (ex. SESTA / FOSTA), transphobia (ex: real name policies), homophobia (ex: word filters). With knowledge of how these vectors manifest, there are many different types of things you can do to lessen their effect.
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