# Understanding the Resilience of Caste: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Community Profiles on X

**Authors:** Nayana Kirasur, Shagun Jhaver  
**arXiv:** [2407.02810](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02810)  
**Date:** 2024-07-03  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/2407.02810v1/

## Abstract

Despite decades of anti-caste efforts, sociocultural practices that marginalize lower-caste groups in India remain resilient and have even proliferated with the use of social media. This paper examines how groups engaged in caste-based discrimination leverage platform affordances of the social media site X (formerly Twitter) to circulate and reinforce caste ideologies. Our analysis builds upon previous HCI conceptualizations of online harms and safety to inform how to address caste-based othering. We offer theoretical and methodological suggestions for critical HCI research focused on studying the mechanisms of power along other social categories.