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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah J Jackson; Moya Bailey; Brooke Foucault Welles |
ISBN: | 9780262043373 0262043378 |
OCLC Number: | 1200353290 |
Notes: | lit. : index. |
Description: | XLIV, 250p. : fig. ; .. cm. |
Abstract:
This book explores the use of Twitter as a communication platform by marginalized groups. It shows how groups such as Afro-Americans, women and transgender people, who were long excluded from elite media spaces, use Twitter hashtags to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. The authors describe how hashtags including #MeToo and #SurvivorPrivilege challenged the conventional understanding of gendered violence. They examine the voices and stories of black feminism enabled by #FastTailedGirls and #SayHerName and explore the use of #GirlsLikeUs, a network of transgender women. The authors also investigate the digital signatures of the “new civil rights movement”, that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter.
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