| Anotation | The project examines the role of digital technologies in shaping contemporary experiences of migration, racial identity, interracial coexistence, and cyber-related threats in the Czech Republic, with a particular focus on the Moravian-Silesian Region. Specifically, it explores how Afro-Czechs, African migrants, and Czech citizens interact with, perceive, resist, or reproduce digital cultures in ways that reflect broader socio-political transformations in postcolonial European society.
The project focuses on two key aspects of cyberculture, including online romance fraud and digital racial performance, including interracial coexistence. Through these lenses, the project interrogates how digital platforms become contested space for both opportunity and exclusion of social interaction. While online romance fraud is often perceived in West African societies as a form of colonial retribution against Western and European powers, thereby constructed as an external cyber threat, digital racialism reflects internal socio-digital tensions within Europe. These dual themes are examined not merely as criminal or deviant acts, but as sociocultural and political constructs embedded within historical, racial, and geopolitical discourses, in Central Europe and the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic presents a significant context for the project, as the social dimensions of cyberculture and cyber-related threats remain largely underexplored.
The project adopts a multi-method approach, including Netnography, in-depth interviews, and surveys. It incorporates comparative narratives from Afro-Czechs, African migrants, and Czech nationals, allowing for an in-depth understanding of the interplay between digital threats, racial identity, interracial coexistence, and migration dynamics in the Czech context. The project is interdisciplinary in scope, contributing to ongoing debates in digital sociology, migration studies, critical race theory, and cybercrime scholarship. Its findings aim to i |
