User-generated reality enforcement

Framing violence against black trans feminine people on a video sharing site

Bibliographic Data

ID12527237
AuthorsValo Vähäpassi (0000-0002-0254-8729, Turku University, Finland, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume26
Issue1
Pages85-98
Publication date2018-03-28
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-5068 • E-ISSN: 1461-7420
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1350506818762971
OpenAlexW2794680233
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

While some scholars have addressed the common cultural tropes about trans people, the way media might sometimes legitimate violence against trans people, and even take part in forms of violence, has not been analysed. This is what this article sets out to do, through an examination of how a verbal and physical attack against black trans women, videotaped and uploaded on a platform for user-generated entertainment, was framed in a way which repeated the symbolic violence (reality enforcement) already at play in the physical (face-to-face) encounter. The article addresses the way this depiction of real violence, framed as entertainment, and coupled with identity invalidation both legitimizes physical violence and delegitimizes black trans feminine people as victims of violence

Art · Criminology · Depiction · Enforcement · Entertainment · Face (sociological concept · Framing (construction · Internet privacy · Media studies · Political science · Reality television · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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