Simply because it is so relevant now. Like other public acts of organizing and resistance, the riot has fallen victim to neoliberal cultural politics that sequester emotions to the private, intimate sphere. Indeed, it is in this intersection of public community and private expression that YouTube is particularly well suited for intervention. By creating a community within this relatively obscure space, which importantly must be searched out rather than casually observed, audiences are emboldened to express feelings of rage and frustration at state violence.
Really needed to hear this right now to express how I feel! Shot it the head because of that … Damn it when are things going to change. Emerging contexts, then and now The re-addition of context plays an important role in the resistance of neoliberal ideologies that distance individuals from a democratic public sphere and justify the state-sanctioned killing of young Black men.
It is in this area that participatory media content can play its most efficient role. While Rekret worries that context is lost on N. The police said to N. A on tour that they are not allowed to sing this song and they did they got arrested they got chased to the back and there were riots. When police brutality on minorities was way bigger than it is now.
By drawing attention to widespread corruption, racist policing techniques, and the historical roots of the songs, these comments draw the span of the YouTube videos past their posting dates. A more profound understanding of context emerges, though, from commenters who not only Downloaded by [ It goes on.
While state-sanctioned violence against Black men and women reaches much further back than three decades, the comments of an entertainment site offer a hopeful argument for resistant ideologies.
Commenters actively resist the ahistorical nature of neoliberalism and the idea that police brutality and harassment are issues of personal responsibility.
Commenters not only offer a context that builds through history, they also point out the expansive effects of police brutality across communities not as an issue of personal responsibility or lawlessness but as an issue of systemic injustice and political context.
Other commenters, too, seem to newly recognize the connection between N. Nothings really changed. In other words, they introduce contexts including N. Not only do commenters point to historical and contemporary cultural contexts, they also recognize the role of media as a context for the recent discussion of police brutality. Some commenters reflect on the ways N. Check it out Downloaded by [ Foregrounding the media in this way helps highlight the economics of the music industry in a way that allows the media to be viewed for its active role in shaping cultural ideologies.
In each of these instances, an element of context is reintroduced into the YouTube record, so that the body of comments insists upon a more contextual and nuanced reading of the text for those participating in the running comments sections. Constructing contemporary counternarratives By offering a public, asynchronous meeting space in which claims to context are in good company, the N.
In a reversal of the prevailing dynamics of law and order, the criminalized members of N. The group delivers this opening portion over a soulful sample of brass horns, creating a sonic aesthetic reminiscent of s and s era crime shows e.
In other words, N. For communities who visit the space of N. Eight cops eight! I was held at gunpoint last year for no good reason. Goddamn state troopers think they can do anything they want … the police are evil. Often, just as in these comments, emotional excess frames the counternarrative testi- monies, indicating the emotional productivity the testimonial format N. Fuck them all. Uneducated pieces of trash. Mindless tools.
By offering their testimony to support the veracity of N. Even while some commenters reference N. Louis, Missouri. Rest in peace. As I noted in the previous section, many commenters remark on their own experiences of police mistreatment. The widespread nature of racial injustice through police forces begs the question of why only particular police murders are offered to the YouTube community through hashtags.
The answer, of course, is that these particular instances of police brutality have been widely circulated by news media. After Krasawski explains her belief that Bland was killed by police and did not commit suicide as police claim, several additional commenters ask for or provide clarification.
Though the commenters do not offer an in-depth analysis of how media outlets work to shape and circulate news, their awareness of the news media creates a conversation about the industrialized media within the institutional media framework of Google- owned YouTube.
Furthermore, while it is unfortunate that mainstream news media focus only on a narrow subset of police violence, in the comments sections of these YouTube videos, the fact that the news media have circulated stories about Black death at the hands of police helps to raise awareness of issues of police violence in the communal gathering space of the videos.
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