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 Six: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization
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CHAPTER SIX
Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization
AARON S. VEENSTRA, NARAYANAN IYER, WENJING XIE, BENJAMIN A. LYONS, CHANG SUP PARK, AND YANG FENG
Collective action associated with social movement organizations has often been modeled as a top-down group behavior (Oberschall, 1973). Formal organizations mobilize membership and sympathetic individuals to protest by taking advantage of formal organizational ties and communicating from the organization to the public (Oliver & Marwell, 1992). This model has held true for both physical protest gatherings and other types of activist behavior organized by social movement organizations (Oliver, 1983).
This formal model is challenged by the low-cost, informal networking potential of the Internet, particularly social media platforms. These technologies allow informal groups to form and mobilize apart from formal organizations, with no continued movement structure. They also afford greater incidental participation, such as information redistribution, lobbying of public and private interests, and network bridging.
The possibilities afforded by these technologies have been most dramatically put on display in recent uprisings in several Middle Eastern countries where formal social movement organizations play a restricted role. While there is no consensus about social media’s impact on these events, it is clear that the speed and distributed informality of social media allowed for quick, secret mobilization. As such, examining communication patterns within these new, sometimes ephemeral networks is a key part of reassessing our understanding of how protest movements...
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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