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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"#BlackLivesMatter"”.
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Krísa ofan á krísu : krísusamskipti bandarísku lögreglunnar í #blacklivesmatter
Krísusamskipti bandarísku lögreglunnar í #blacklivesmatter mótmælunum verða til umfjöllunar í þessari ritgerð og þau borin saman við helstu kenningar í krísustjórnun og krísusamskiptum. Með krísusamskiptum er átt við það hvernig brugðist er við krísu og hvernig henni er svarað. Þá verður …
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#BlackLivesMatter: How a hashtag maintains a movement: A content analysis of the Black Lives Matter hashtag on Twitter
… the frequency of engagement with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter by Twitter users. The data collection consisted of tweets shared between the time frame of July 17, 2014, to August 17, 2014. The methodology used was content analysis, which included the examination of the volume of Twitter tweets …
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Towards a Poetics of the Digital Protest Text: Insights from the #BlackLivesMatter Movement (2013-) and Anti-CAA and Anti-NRC Protests (2019-2020)
With the rise of digital activism in the global protest cycle, it is imperative to formulate theoretical frameworks, or a poetics, of the role digital texts play in creating, sustaining, and outliving protest. For all its ubiquitous use, the form has been slippery to conceptualize; its literary …
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Police My Internet Presence: The Demobilization of Social Movements through Social Media
… social, and economic institutions. I analyze #BlackLivesMatter and the internet blockage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to highlight what I refer to as rhetorical demobilization strategies deployed by oppositional resistance to undercut the efficacy of social movements.
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Black and Blue: Competing Social Constructions of Police On Instagram and Twitter
… Twitter in relation to police images with the #BlackLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter hashtags.</p>
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
… in the US, I examine the genealogy of #BlackLivesMatter statements from one college at a predominantly white university that said it supports Black lives following the murder of George Floyd. In other words, drawing on Christina Sharpe’s concept of “anagrammatical Blackness,” I offer …
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“WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?” THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL MOTIVATORS ON ATTITUDES TOWARD STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND INTERPERSONAL FORGIVENESS
… motivators are applied to the contemporary #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo movements and their responses to structural violence. This dissertation successfully defines forgiveness in interpersonal terms and presents a forgiveness typology which aids in assessing responses to structural …
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Bad Water, Dirty Politics: Contrasting Governmental Responses to Two U.S. Water Crises
… a new civil rights movement under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter, racial tensions are once again at the forefront of the national discourse. As an integral part of that discourse, the Flint case demonstrates how racist attitudes and actions create differing realities for individuals of different …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
… offline. Simultaneously, we have seen hashtags (#BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName) and user-generated videos created by Black women spark movements and create change. This dissertation extends the theoretical framework of online identity performance (Grabill and Pigg) by looking specifically at …
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Ativismo digital antirracismo e a mediação implícita da informação no Twitter: análise da hashtag #VidasNegrasImportam
… media. The hashtag # VidasNegrasImportam (#BlackLivesMatter, in English) emerged as a repercussion of the Black Lives Matter movement that reverberated in Brazil in the face of the need to specify the voices of black resistance in the context of a country founded on the myth of racial …
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The Performance of Intersectionality on the 21st Century Stand-Up Comedy Stage
… intellectualism and social critique in the #BlackLivesMatter era. This dissertation is driven by a central question: what performative strategies – defined throughout as ways in which comics structure the content, delivery, and space of their performances in specific ways that convey meaning …