Ethnic-racial relations, language and technology: confluences and conflicts

Abstract

Carried out through bibliographic review, this article discusses the aspects that make language and technology not only instruments of communication but also contributing factors in the production of identities, and, in this capacity, instances that take part in ethnic-racial confluences and conflicts. The text is structured into two content units that seek to meet the following specific objectives: understanding the artificial and constitutive character of language, as well as its role in formulating the concepts of race and ethnicity in the context of identity articulations; and evaluate the relationship between language and technology, pointing out its implications for racism. As a result, the work indicates that, alongside the benefits that telematic networks provide in terms of access to information and communication, the experiences mediated by digital platforms take on ideological contours that shape discriminatory and racist attitudes, reinforcing the objectification of humans at the expense of fundamental values of diversity and existential dignity.