Journal
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 1928-1946Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1461444819834509
Keywords
Digilantism; humanitarianism; humor; international volunteering; parody; photography; representation; self-presentation; social media; volunteer tourism
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- Danish Council for Independent Research [6109-00158]
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How is volunteer tourism practice portrayed and policed in an online setting? First, this article describes three humanitarian-themed campaigns-Radi-Aid on YouTube, Humanitarians of Tinder on Tumblr, and Barbie Savior on Instagram-to consider the ways edgy humor might be employed to rebuke and resolve problematic humanitarian practices as well as representations of the African other and the humanitarian self. Second, through an inspection of repeated semi-structured interviews and visual content uploaded to Facebook, this article shows how a group of UK-based international volunteers took measures to avoid stereotypical volunteer photography (embracing children, selfies) when communicating their experiences in Kenya to a public audience, determined to avoid the scrutiny of in the know audience members. We consider these counter-narratives in light of Jane's concept of digilantism, an emerging style of networked response to injustice.
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