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 Nine: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off
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CHAPTER NINE
#FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off
JENNY UNGBHA KORN
INTRODUCTION
Online communities are supposed to last. In fact, a typical academic would consider a virtual community that has gone inactive as a failed one. Past research on digital communities regularly emphasizes thriving practices and survival strategies for keeping such communities vibrant and lively (Baym, 1999; Fox, 2004; Howard, 2010). In contrast, I take a different approach to online communities that have gone inactive: I interpret the stasis of communities on the Internet as a healthy, logical, and even anticipated stage of event-based online communities. From my perspective, some online communities are supposed to endure only temporarily.
In this chapter, I examine a specific event-based case to illustrate the temporality of online communities that arise, cohere, and then taper into stasis. Through focusing on virtual communities whose longevity is tied to a particular event, I address an underresearched area of online community scholarship, namely, those characterized as temporary. For my case study, I chose opposition to Proposition 8, legislation that banned same-sex marriage in California (Liptak, 2013). I analyze how politics and sexuality are intertwined with discourse and identity through communities organized by Twitter hashtags. I also discuss how these online ← 127 | 128 → communities contribute to a counterpublic whose discourses concurrently featured acceptance for nonmainstream sexuality while challenging anti-queer legislation (Milioni, 2009).
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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