Rianna Walcott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rianna Walcott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rianna |
| FAMILY NAME | Walcott |
| SIGNATURE | WALCOTT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2261-8616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black (British) Identity and Archival Rituals
On April 9th, 2021, just before noon, multiple major news outlets reported the death of Prince Philip, husband to the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, aged 99. What followed was a subversion of imperial hierarchy – for a time – as Black Briton's took to Twitter to celebrate the death of a living symbol of oppression. Within 24 hours much of the evidence of this ritual of disrespect was gone: temporarily changed profile pictures had reverted to…
Losing the API
As digital platforms continually evolve, rapid changes to platform affordances quickly render digital tools and data collection methods obsolete. Researchers of digital culture therefore must proactively adapt to the ephemerality of data. This paper examines these challenges within the context of Twitter (X) following its 2022 acquisition by Elon Musk, and the subsequent limiting of access to the API for data collection. Using a combination of ma…
Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean Aave’
Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’. To do this, we analyse metalinguistic discourses of linguistic appropriation in a corpus of 178 TikTok videos. We identify two main competi…
Black (rhetorics of) migration and laying claim to space
This essay troubles the romanticized US American “nation of immigrants” narrative through its relationship to Black diasporic histories of migration. The Immigration Act of 1924 codified white ethnocentrism in US American citizenship rights, and thus represented a potential challenge to Black American citizenship claims. Here we reflect on Black American rhetorical practices as a mode of worldmaking; of laying claim to putatively white space and …
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent y…
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent y…
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent y…
Black (rhetorics of) migration and laying claim to space
This essay troubles the romanticized US American “nation of immigrants” narrative through its relationship to Black diasporic histories of migration. The Immigration Act of 1924 codified white ethnocentrism in US American citizenship rights, and thus represented a potential challenge to Black American citizenship claims. Here we reflect on Black American rhetorical practices as a mode of worldmaking; of laying claim to putatively white space and …
Black (British) Identity and Archival Rituals
On April 9th, 2021, just before noon, multiple major news outlets reported the death of Prince Philip, husband to the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, aged 99. What followed was a subversion of imperial hierarchy – for a time – as Black Briton's took to Twitter to celebrate the death of a living symbol of oppression. Within 24 hours much of the evidence of this ritual of disrespect was gone: temporarily changed profile pictures had reverted to…
Losing the API
As digital platforms continually evolve, rapid changes to platform affordances quickly render digital tools and data collection methods obsolete. Researchers of digital culture therefore must proactively adapt to the ephemerality of data. This paper examines these challenges within the context of Twitter (X) following its 2022 acquisition by Elon Musk, and the subsequent limiting of access to the API for data collection. Using a combination of ma…
Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean Aave’
Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’. To do this, we analyse metalinguistic discourses of linguistic appropriation in a corpus of 178 TikTok videos. We identify two main competi…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adaptability (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Affordance (1 work) · African american (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 work)