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Title	“Race”, Space and Social Action: The UK Riots 2011
Type	Journal article
Authors	Osho, Y.
Abstract	The issues of “race”, place and its connections to traditional and social media have never been so significant. The riots that occurred in the UK in 2011 signalled a watershed moment in locating virtual networks of communication to heterogeneous groups which resulted in autonomous social action. The purpose of this paper is to make intelligible the UK riots and the complexities involved in binding together disparate groups of people together during a key period of social unrest. It seeks to uncover these connections further to elucidate the ways in which old and new technologies help to create virtual and offline enclaves which transcend the confines of “race”, class and gender. The methods that will be used to uncover the multifaceted responses to the riots will be multidisciplinary; it will involve an analysis of the UK press at the height of the riots, secondary analysis of public sentiment and social media.
Keywords	Race
	social media
	riots
Journal	Teknokultura
Journal citation	10 (3), pp. 643-666
ISSN	1549-2230
Year	2013
Publisher	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Servicio de Publicaciones
Publisher's version	48075-Article Text-81222-1-10-20150203.pdf License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Web address (URL)	https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48075
Published	27 Jun 2013
Supplemental file	File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)

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