From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation

Brock, André

doi:10.1080/08838151.2012.732147

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“…However, even when users are not explicit about their defiance, I argue that pride in the fat body of color resists the framework of shame that we have become accustomed to. Further, the discursive power of selfies and other actions online has already been demonstrated [24,26]. Posting a picture or selfie communicates information to other users who are familiar with that cultural conversation.…”

Section: Fashion As Resistance To Normative Beauty Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CDA "focuses on the ways discourse structures enact, confirm, legitimate, reproduce, or challenge relations of power and dominance in society ( [23], p. 353). Adding a layer of complexity, Brock [24] argues that Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) "draws from technology studies, communication studies, and critical race theory to understand how culture shapes technologies" ( [24], p. 531) and how technologies shape culture. CTDA, as a methodology or technique, highlights the relationship and power negotiations that occur on, and through, technology.…”

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Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online

Williams

2017

Social Sciences

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Though the general populace has been introduced to the idea of thin privilege, the fat activist movement has been slow in gaining momentum. This is due, in part, to the symbolic annihilation of "fat" people in media. Within the fat activist framework, women of color are often further excluded from the overarching discourse and white privilege is sometimes unacknowledged. Taking an intersectional approach, I examine the Tumblr page, Fat People of Color. I use Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) to examine the images and conversations posted by users. Findings reveal that Fat People of Color uses an intersectional, communal approach to posit counter-narratives against normative ideas about white thinness. This research contributes to an understudied area of sociological inquiry by presenting an analysis of the experience of "fat" women of color within a feminist framework. Ignoring the variation of experiences strengthens the types of privileges that fat activism and feminism hope to dismantle.

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Section: Fashion As Resistance To Normative Beauty Standardsmentioning

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online

Williams

2017

Social Sciences

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“…The vast majority of Twitter studies explore how the tool is used for various purposes, such as politics (e.g., Himelboim, Hansen, & Bowser, 2013), cultural conversation (e.g., Brock, 2012), and cultural performance (Florini, 2014). The number of studies that conceptualize the act of tweeting itself remains insufficient.…”

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Twitter Issue Response Hashtags as Affordances for Momentary Connectedness

Rathnayake

Suthers

2017

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media &Amp; Society - #SMSociety17

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Framing online collective behavior within theoretical frameworks developed to describe offline phenomena is common in social media studies. This can limit the scope of analysis because the interplay between user capabilities, intentions, and platform architecture makes online exchanges different from offline interaction. We introduce a novel conception of online publicness, momentary connectedness, which is a structure of polymorphic computer-mediated sociality that includes transactive as well as non-transactive phenomenological online activity. We suggest that Twitter issue-response hashtags can be seen as affordances for momentary connectedness where Tweets that display broad and vague audience dimensions, as well as clusters with different interactional orientations, co-exist within the same topical network. We illustrate this polymorphism of momentary connectedness with a case study of an issue-response network.

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“…Beyond racial boundary making, Brock (2012) argues that the alternative, distinctive marking of Black Twitter acts as a 'social public' -a community that was formed on Twitter by those with insider and outsider status (p. 530). Black Twitter is bound by the technocultural norms associated with the mainstream narratives of Twitter (i.e., White users believe that Twitter is predominantly used by White users even though empirical evidence suggests otherwise; see Smith, 2011) and cannot be completely representative of or inclusive of Blackness (Brock, 2012).…”

Section: Black Social Network and Support Systems Revisited And Expamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Black users intentionally signify to convey multiple layers of identity. Users who do not understand the sociohistorical implications of coded tweets are excluded, thereby ensuring some semblance of group solidarity (Brock, 2012;Florini, 2013;Williams, 2015;Williams, 2016a). For example, in our study, viewers use #Dat-Murda in addition to #HTGAWM.…”

Section: Black Social Network and Support Systems Revisited And Expamentioning

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I got all my sisters with me (on Black Twitter): second screening ofHow to Get Away with Murderas a discourse on Black Womanhood

Williams

Gonlin

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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In addition to performing racial identity on Black Twitter, Black users also use the platform to host discourse on Blackness. Tweets, hashtags, and trends associated with the television show How to Get Away with Murder are used to demonstrate that second screening and co-viewing of the series on Twitter enables a technocultural discourse on a shared cultural history of Black womanhood. Specifically, we address scenes portrayed in HTGAWM and highlight the intersection of race and gender. From a critical Black feminist lens we analyze the response on Black Twitter. ARTICLE HISTORY

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From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation

Cited by 392 publications

References 20 publications

Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online

Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online

Twitter Issue Response Hashtags as Affordances for Momentary Connectedness

I got all my sisters with me (on Black Twitter): second screening ofHow to Get Away with Murderas a discourse on Black Womanhood

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