期刊名称：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
印刷版ISSN：1832-3898
电子版ISSN：1838-8310
出版年度：2015
卷号：11
期号：1
出版社：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA)
摘要：This paper examines the centrality of whiteness to the Kony 2012 campaign, arguing that both Kony 2012 and the broader saviour - industrial complex are predicated on a benign and unchallenged whiteness. Kony 2012 is predicated on a geo - political virtual reality of unmarked whiteness. This occurs because Facebook communities are relatively socially isolated, enabling the whiteness of these communities to remain invisible and unchallenged. A focus on injustice 'elsewhere' contributes to an unscrutinised notion of white privilege as likewise existing 'elsewhere'. It contributes to the formation of an imagined community of 'us' that is d efined by a shared belief in doing good, and in doing good 'we' are showing that we are not driven by prejudice and racial animus. 'We' care ¡ just look at ' my status update ' . "Remixing the Burden," thus, argues Kony 2012 needed the technologies of Faceb ook and social media as a whole, and likewise online activism for white America requires campaign such as Kony , which put the performance of white charity and post - privilege along side of a fulfilled desire to help without threatening social standing with peers, communal power, and lived privilege. Kony 2012 cannot exist without social media because of the ways that social media activism allows whiteness off the hook.
关键词：Kony ; 2012; social media activism; Facebook; whiteness; saviour ; - ; industrial ; complex; Trayvon Martin; Michael Brown
