in Anthropological Journal of European Cultures by Berghahn
Cecilia G. Salinas
View MoreDOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2024.330205Keywords: anger; belonging; digital ethnography; minoritised; racism; social media; Norway
Abstract
This study explores the interconnectedness between social media, anger, and everyday negotiations of belonging and anti-racist struggles in Norway. The examination draws on an ethnographic approach that does not treat the digital as separate from the non-digital, but recognises the embeddedness of digital technology in people’s lives. I demonstrate how digital networking might offer a different set of communicative practices within the same cultural context, challenging existing norms of face-to-face communication. I do so by focusing particularly on anger. Anger is inherently relational, but in Norway the dominant cultural norm confines it to the private domain. I argue that through digital networking sites, anger’s transformative power transcends the private and bids for public recognition.
