Hashtag Publics
The Power and Politics of Discursive Networks
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Edited By Nathan Rambukkana
Hashtags are deictic, indexical – yet what they point to is themselves, their own dual role in ongoing discourse. Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti.
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2015. X, 293 pp., num. ill.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- #Acknowledgments
- #Introduction: Hashtags as Technosocial Events
- Theorizing Hashtag Publics
- Chapter One: Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics
- Chapter Two: From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The Digital Intimacies of Race-Activist Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Three: #auspol: The Hashtag as Community, Event, and Material Object for Engaging with Australian Politics
- Chapter Four: Hashtag as Hybrid Forum: The Case of #agchatoz
- Chapter Five: #Time
- Hashtags and Activist Publics
- Chapter Six: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization
- Chapter Seven: Hashtagging the Invisible: Bringing Private Experiences into Public Debate : An #outcry against Sexism in Germany
- Chapter Eight: Hashtags as Intermedia Agency Resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil
- Chapter Nine: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off
- Chapter Ten: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA
- Art, Craft, and Pop Culture Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Eleven: Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Chapter Twelve: Living the #Quilt Life: Talking about Quiltmaking on Tumblr
- Chapter Thirteen: Jokin’ in the First World: Appropriate Incongruity and the #firstworldproblems Controversy
- Chapter Fourteen: #RaiderNation: The Digital and Material Identity and Values of a Superdiverse Fan Community
- Hashtags in Communities, Polities, and Politics
- Chapter Fifteen: Black Twitter: Building Connection through Cultural Conversation
- Chapter Sixteen: #BlackTwitter: Making Waves as a Social Media Subculture
- Chapter Seventeen: The 1x1 Common: The Role of Instagram’s Hashtag in the Development and Maintenance of Feminist Exchange
- Chapter Eighteen: Meta-Hashtag and Tag Co-occurrence: From Organization to Politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere
- Chapter Nineteen: The Twitter Citizen: Problematizing Traditional Media Dominance in an Online Political Discussion
- Chapter Twenty: Hashtagging #HigherEd
- #Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- #Acknowledgments
- #Introduction: Hashtags as Technosocial Events
- Theorizing Hashtag Publics
- Chapter One: Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics
- Chapter Two: From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The Digital Intimacies of Race-Activist Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Three: #auspol: The Hashtag as Community, Event, and Material Object for Engaging with Australian Politics
- Chapter Four: Hashtag as Hybrid Forum: The Case of #agchatoz
- Chapter Five: #Time
- Hashtags and Activist Publics
- Chapter Six: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization
- Chapter Seven: Hashtagging the Invisible: Bringing Private Experiences into Public Debate : An #outcry against Sexism in Germany
- Chapter Eight: Hashtags as Intermedia Agency Resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil
- Chapter Nine: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off
- Chapter Ten: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA
- Art, Craft, and Pop Culture Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Eleven: Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Chapter Twelve: Living the #Quilt Life: Talking about Quiltmaking on Tumblr
- Chapter Thirteen: Jokin’ in the First World: Appropriate Incongruity and the #firstworldproblems Controversy
- Chapter Fourteen: #RaiderNation: The Digital and Material Identity and Values of a Superdiverse Fan Community
- Hashtags in Communities, Polities, and Politics
- Chapter Fifteen: Black Twitter: Building Connection through Cultural Conversation
- Chapter Sixteen: #BlackTwitter: Making Waves as a Social Media Subculture
- Chapter Seventeen: The 1x1 Common: The Role of Instagram’s Hashtag in the Development and Maintenance of Feminist Exchange
- Chapter Eighteen: Meta-Hashtag and Tag Co-occurrence: From Organization to Politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere
- Chapter Nineteen: The Twitter Citizen: Problematizing Traditional Media Dominance in an Online Political Discussion
- Chapter Twenty: Hashtagging #HigherEd
- #Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
Chapter Ten: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA
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CHAPTER TEN
More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA
STACY BLASIOLA, YOONMO SANG, AND WEIAI WAYNE XU
In recent years, Internet policy making has received an increased level of interest from publics (Breindl & Briatte, 2013; Powell, 2012). The net neutrality debate and the SOPA/PIPA bills, for example, both relate to Internet policy making, and each case has garnered a fair share of the spotlight. Understanding whether and how Internet activism can affect policy-making processes is an issue that warrants our attention. Previous studies have investigated digital activists’ communicative and technical tactics (Van Laer & Van Aelst, 2010); however, most studies fail to provide a workable investigation into the range of technical actions used and how those actions utilize the affordances of the Internet.
To that end, this study examines how opponents of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) bill have used the #CISPA Twitter hashtag to employ both communicative and technical actions. It situates anti-CISPA activists as operating within the context of online social movements and categorizes their tactical behaviors as technical activist actions (TAA) (Powell, 2011). Building upon the concept of TAA and previous studies on repertoires of online social movements (Costanza-Chock, 2003; Van Laer & Van Aelst, 2010), this study refines and differentiates communicative from technical actions in digital activism. ← 139 | 140 →
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- #Acknowledgments
- #Introduction: Hashtags as Technosocial Events
- Theorizing Hashtag Publics
- Chapter One: Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics
- Chapter Two: From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The Digital Intimacies of Race-Activist Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Three: #auspol: The Hashtag as Community, Event, and Material Object for Engaging with Australian Politics
- Chapter Four: Hashtag as Hybrid Forum: The Case of #agchatoz
- Chapter Five: #Time
- Hashtags and Activist Publics
- Chapter Six: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization
- Chapter Seven: Hashtagging the Invisible: Bringing Private Experiences into Public Debate : An #outcry against Sexism in Germany
- Chapter Eight: Hashtags as Intermedia Agency Resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil
- Chapter Nine: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off
- Chapter Ten: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA
- Art, Craft, and Pop Culture Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Eleven: Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Chapter Twelve: Living the #Quilt Life: Talking about Quiltmaking on Tumblr
- Chapter Thirteen: Jokin’ in the First World: Appropriate Incongruity and the #firstworldproblems Controversy
- Chapter Fourteen: #RaiderNation: The Digital and Material Identity and Values of a Superdiverse Fan Community
- Hashtags in Communities, Polities, and Politics
- Chapter Fifteen: Black Twitter: Building Connection through Cultural Conversation
- Chapter Sixteen: #BlackTwitter: Making Waves as a Social Media Subculture
- Chapter Seventeen: The 1x1 Common: The Role of Instagram’s Hashtag in the Development and Maintenance of Feminist Exchange
- Chapter Eighteen: Meta-Hashtag and Tag Co-occurrence: From Organization to Politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere
- Chapter Nineteen: The Twitter Citizen: Problematizing Traditional Media Dominance in an Online Political Discussion
- Chapter Twenty: Hashtagging #HigherEd
- #Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- #Acknowledgments
- #Introduction: Hashtags as Technosocial Events
- Theorizing Hashtag Publics
- Chapter One: Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics
- Chapter Two: From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The Digital Intimacies of Race-Activist Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Three: #auspol: The Hashtag as Community, Event, and Material Object for Engaging with Australian Politics
- Chapter Four: Hashtag as Hybrid Forum: The Case of #agchatoz
- Chapter Five: #Time
- Hashtags and Activist Publics
- Chapter Six: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization
- Chapter Seven: Hashtagging the Invisible: Bringing Private Experiences into Public Debate : An #outcry against Sexism in Germany
- Chapter Eight: Hashtags as Intermedia Agency Resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil
- Chapter Nine: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off
- Chapter Ten: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA
- Art, Craft, and Pop Culture Hashtag Publics
- Chapter Eleven: Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Chapter Twelve: Living the #Quilt Life: Talking about Quiltmaking on Tumblr
- Chapter Thirteen: Jokin’ in the First World: Appropriate Incongruity and the #firstworldproblems Controversy
- Chapter Fourteen: #RaiderNation: The Digital and Material Identity and Values of a Superdiverse Fan Community
- Hashtags in Communities, Polities, and Politics
- Chapter Fifteen: Black Twitter: Building Connection through Cultural Conversation
- Chapter Sixteen: #BlackTwitter: Making Waves as a Social Media Subculture
- Chapter Seventeen: The 1x1 Common: The Role of Instagram’s Hashtag in the Development and Maintenance of Feminist Exchange
- Chapter Eighteen: Meta-Hashtag and Tag Co-occurrence: From Organization to Politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere
- Chapter Nineteen: The Twitter Citizen: Problematizing Traditional Media Dominance in an Online Political Discussion
- Chapter Twenty: Hashtagging #HigherEd
- #Contributors
- Index
- Series Index