  Colonialism--the policies and practices wherein a foreign body imposes its
ways of life on local communities--has historically impacted how collectives
perceive themselves in relation to others. One way colonialism has impacted how
people see themselves is through nationalism, where nationalism is often
understood through shared language, culture, religion, and geopolitical
borders. The way colonialism has shaped people's experiences with nationalism
has shaped historical conflicts between members of different nation-states for
a long time. While recent social computing research has studied how colonially
marginalized people can engage in discourse to decolonize or re-imagine and
reclaim themselves and their communities on their own terms--what is less
understood is how technology can better support decolonial discourses in an
effort to re-imagine nationalism. To understand this phenomenon, this research
draws on a semi-structured interview study with YouTubers who make videos about
culturally Bengali people whose lives were upended as a product of colonization
and are now dispersed across Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. This research
seeks to understand people's motivations and strategies for engaging in
video-mediated decolonial discourse in transnational contexts. We discuss how
our work demonstrates the potential of the sociomateriality of decolonial
discourse online and extends an invitation to foreground complexities of
nationalism in social computing research.
