The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use

Ince, Jelani; Rojas, Fabio; Davis, Clayton A.

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1334931

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“…Most extant studies have highlighted the role that hashtags play in forming dialogues between core BLM activists and their adherents. These studies have led to considerable gains in our knowledge by demonstrating how these dialogues have boosted the movement's ability to disseminate information and mobilize supporters for protest actions (Cox 2017;Freelon, McIlwain, and Clark 2016;Ince, Rojas, and Davis 2017).…”

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“…One of the defining features of New Social Movements is their utilization of social media to frame their causes and communicate with their adherents (Gerbaudo 2012;Papacharissi 2015;Theocharis et al, 2015). The final strand of research on BLM focuses on the role that social media plays within the movement (Cox 2017;Clark 2016, 2016b;Ince, Rojas, and Davis 2017). The extant studies of the social media dimension of the BLM movement have focused largely on the hashtags that drive conversations between BLM activists and their supporters and opponents on Twitter and Facebook.…”

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What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

Tillery¹

2019

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Hundreds of grassroots protests have taken place across the United States under the banner of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement since 2013. This paper examines the public Twitter feeds of six social movement organizations (SMOs) affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in order to ascertain the nature of the movement from the standpoint of theories of contentious politics. The main finding from the three content analysis studies presented in the paper is that the core activists of the BLM movement use Twitter primarily for expressive communication. Another key finding is that the SMOs examined in this study generated more tweets that framed the movement using the rights-based language of liberalims than frames about gender, racial, and LGBTQ identities. Finally, the SMOs rarely used Twitter to mobilize their followers to engage in contentious politics. Moreover, when they do seek to mobilize their adherents, they tend to do so with an eye toward stimulating participation in the extant political system.

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What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

Tillery¹

2019

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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“…Hashtags in Twitter have been used to separate the stream of tweets and unite the discussion streams. This functionality of Twitter has been studied in political science, communication studies, and social sciences [57][58][59].…”

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Impact of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Discussions in Smart Cities: Comprehensive Assessment of Social Media Data

Hajikhani

2020

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Discussions on “smart cities” are gaining in popularity in the past two decades and has shown potential in tackling the cities’ environmental, social, and economic challenges. Smart cities are known as a system of physical infrastructure, the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, and the social infrastructure that exchange information that flows between its many different subsystems. The “smart cities” concept has been introduced with various dimensions, among those, the embedded ICT infrastructure in smart cities is playing a decisive role between the functions of the system. One of the important derivatives of ICT is the new communication mediums known as social network services (SNSs), which is emergent and introduces additional functionalities to “smart cities”. This paper seeks to advance the understanding of SNSs in smart cities to evaluate the effects on the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. This agenda has been tackled by a rigorous methodological approach in order to capture and evaluate the presence of entrepreneurially concerned discussions in a popular SNS intermediate (Twitter). Beyond the methodological contribution on handling big data in SNSs for gaining insights on innovation and entrepreneurial aspects in smart cities, the findings distinguished the influence of a certain category of content generators (professionals) that drive the biggest motives of the interactions in SNSs.

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“…In relation to policing, social media provide important forums for claims making and mobilization around racialized police violence. While such concerns are hardly new, social media has brought unprecedented attention to the issue, offering opportunities to contest common sense assumptions, alter public attitudes, and apply pressure to produce institutional change (Bradshaw, 2013;Ince, Rojas, & Davis, 2017;Ray, Brown, & Laybourn, 2017). For example, Jackson and Welles (2015;cf.…”

Section: The Public's Use Of Social Media: Countersurveillance and mentioning

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Social media and policing: A review of recent research

Walsh

O’Connor

2018

Sociology Compass

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Studies of social media's impact on policing have emerged in several disciplines, including criminology, sociology, and communications. Despite their insight, there is no unified body of knowledge regarding this relationship. In an attempt to synthesize extant work, bring coherence to the field, and orient future scholarship, this article summarizes research on social media's implications for practices and perceptions of order maintenance. It does so by identifying how social media's technical affordances empower and constrain police services. By offering new opportunities for surveillance, risk communication, and impression management, emergent technologies augment the police's control of their public visibility and that of the social world. However, they also provide unprecedented capacities to monitor the police and expose, circulate, and mobilize around perceived injustice, whether brutality, racial profiling, or other forms of indiscretion. Considering these issues promises to enhance knowledge on contemporary directions in social control, organizational communication, inequality, and collective action. Suggestions for future research are also explored.

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The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use

Cited by 228 publications

References 18 publications

What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

Impact of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Discussions in Smart Cities: Comprehensive Assessment of Social Media Data

Social media and policing: A review of recent research

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