The Internet has become a ubiquitous central element in the lives of adolescents. In this conceptual paper, we focus on digital white racial socialization (D-WRS), arguing: (1) for an expanded conceptualization of WRS as doings, and (2) that social media may be changing processes of WRS through an extension of traditional settings and through the creation of unique social contexts. We highlight the uniqueness of social media contexts due to the designed normalization of whiteness, weak-tie racism, social media affordances, and racialized pedagogical zones allowing adolescents to practice doing race. We introduce a conceptual framework for D-WRS and end with an expressed need for conceptually guided research on the multidimensional relationship between social media and WRS processes.

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数字白人种族社会化：社交媒体和白人案例

互联网已成为青少年生活中无处不在的核心元素。在这篇概念性论文中，我们关注数字白人种族社会化 (D-WRS)，认为：(1) 将 WRS 扩展概念化为行为，以及 (2) 社交媒体可能通过传统的扩展来改变 WRS 的过程设置和通过创造独特的社会环境。我们强调了社交媒体环境的独特性，这是由于设计的白人正常化、弱关系种族主义、社交媒体可供性和允许青少年练习做事的种族化教学区种族。我们介绍了 D-WRS 的概念框架，并表达了对社交媒体和 WRS 过程之间多维关系的概念指导研究的明确需求。