Tweeting for social justice in #Ferguson: Affective discourse in Twitter hashtags

Social media platforms have broadened the scope of voices responding to social justice movements, significantly impacting public conversations of important social justice issues. This social network analysis examined hashtags that were invoked on Twitter in the aftermath of the Mike Brown shooting in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson in 2014. From the millions of tweets globally, the use of specific hashtags appeared to focus the conversation on Twitter toward the personal meaning of story events and framed the shooting as something relatable to the posters’ own lives and experiences.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  New Media & Society

• Publication date

  2019-02-21

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/1461444819827030
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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