How the use of emoji on Islamophobic Facebook pages amplifies racism
- Written by Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology
Emoji can cloak microaggressions in humour and play.Andre Hunter/Unsplash, CC BY-SA
In the aftermath of the fatal stabbing in Melbourne’s Bourke Street on Friday, Facebook and other social media platforms were flooded with hateful messages towards Muslims and Islam.
Over the weekend, I browsed several Islamophobic Facebook pages, such as...
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