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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Black Twitter"”.
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… More specifically, its purpose is to examine how Black Twitter users interact on Twitter through the portals of three trending hashtags from 2015: #BlackExperience, #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, and #AskRachel. The hashtags #BlackExperience and #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies sparked …
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Old Frames on New Media: Health Misinformation in Black Digital Communities
… several studies on health misinformation and Black communities in the United States (U.S.), few of these studies characterize misinformation within digital settings. This dissertation seeks to address this gap by: 1) synthesizing the literature on health misinformation and Black communities to …
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Queer Digital Community: An Analysis of Twitter Counterpublics
… This study asks whether queer people on Twitter utilize the platform to create a counterpublic - a group of strangers linked by a shared oppositional discourse to the dominant public discourse. To answer this, I compare the interaction patterns and thematic content of queer tweets with a …
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From #MenAreTrash to #MensConference: Networked masculinities in South African Twitter
… of networked masculinities in South African Black Twitter through the analysis of two recent case studies. The first case study looks at the hashtag #MensConference, a fictional conference organised by men in opposition to Valentine's Day. The second focuses on the #MenAreTrash movement, a …
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An analysis of Twitter’s role between 2012 and 2018 in contributing to the new way Black Millennials of African Ancestry produce 21st Century PanAfrican Knowledge and Social Activity
Social media has provided new opportunities for Black millennials1 (individuals born between 1981–1996) of the diaspora and Africa to communicate, learn, build social and political movements, and curate joint identities. As a result of this group’s active use of social media over the last decade, …
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African Americans and mobile video: exploring Black cultural practice on Vine
This study explores Black cultural practice on the mobile video platform Vine, a six-second micro-video editing mobile application. The purpose of this research is to critically examine how African Americans embraced social video through Vine and how Black cultural practice is enacted within the …