1st Edition
Platforming Cancel Culture Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections
1 The Cancellation Will Be Digitised: Navigating Cancel Culture Across Culture, Digital Spaces and Platforms
Páraic Kerrigan, Elizabeth Farries, and Eugenia Siapera
SECTION I: Toppling Statues and Contested Histories: Cancel Culture, Memory, and the Digital Sphere
2 Erasing History? Statue Removal, Cancel Culture and Digital Maps
Jennifer Keohane
3 Cancelling Whose History? The Case of the Bowman and the Spearman Statue Removal and Southeast European Views
Monika Cverlin, Marijana Musladin, and Mato Brautović
SECTION II: Global Perspectives on Cancel Culture: Nationalism, Resistance, and Marginalisation
4 Cancel Culture and China’s Multi-Ethnic National Imaginary: Social Media, Nationalism, and Silencing Dissent
Dean Phelan
5 Manufacturing Anger: Exploring Discursive Constructions of Cancel Culture on X in India
Anilesh Kumar and Quang Minh Nguyet Nguyen
6 Cancel Culture in Russia: A Concept Lost in Translation
Sergei A. Samoilenko, Olga Logunova, and Ivan Grek
7 Cancelling Progress? Cancel Culture and the
Marginalization of Malayali LGBTQIA+
Communities in Kerala, India 116
Christo Jacob
SECTION III
Celebrity, Fandom, and the Ethics of Cancellation 135
8 The Frankenstein Malady: Batwoman ‘Fans’
and the Appropriation of Cancel Culture 137
Natalie Le Clue
9 Cancel Culture Right Now: Consent Culture
and Aziz Ansari’s Comedic Celebrity Confessional 152
Sabrina Moro and Claire Sedgwick
10 Gendered Perspectives of Cancel Culture: South
African Celebrity Cases on X 168
Kealeboga Aiseng
Biography
Paraic Kerrigan is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on the intersections of digital media, communication, and social justice, with particular attention to issues of gender and sexuality.
Elizabeth Farries is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, where she is co-director of the Centre for Digital Policy. Her research lies at the intersection of new technologies and regulation, with a focus on digital policy cycles and assemblages emerging in the Digital Transformation.
Eugenia Siapera is a professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, where she is co-director of the Centre for Digital Policy. Her research interests are in the areas of digital and social media, political communication, and journalism.
