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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"hashtag"”.
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#BlackLivesMatter: How a hashtag maintains a movement: A content analysis of the Black Lives Matter hashtag on Twitter
… to identify 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 …
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Millennials and Generation Z: Men's Perspectives on Hashtag Feminism
… is largely conducted through social media and hashtag activism and is often called "hashtag feminism." The feminist hashtags #MeToo, #HeForShe, and #HowIWillChange are well-known symbols of the modern feminist movement. Despite the large role that men and masculinity play in the construction of …
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The visible #family: Using the hashtag to study family construction
<p>The purpose of this study is to see, through a raw collection of data, how the family is currently being portrayed on social networking sites. Twitter is used to examine the social construction of family based upon observing tweets that contain #family. This paper argues that the family is best …
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Ativismo digital antirracismo e a mediação implícita da informação no Twitter: análise da hashtag #VidasNegrasImportam
… spaces and one of its strategies is the use of hashtags on social 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 …
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Digital Echoes of a Movement: Analyzing the Evolution of the WomanLifeFreedom Movement through Hashtag Analysis
… 2022. The study analyzes the use of the hashtag #MahsaAmini and co-occurrence hashtags along with it to understand the movement's dynamics, geographical spread, and evolving discourse. Observing in nine months of the movement, I tracked 270,000 tweets, to map engagement and identify key …
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Comparing vector-based and ACT-R memory models using large-scale datasets: User-customized hashtag and tag prediction on Twitter and StackOverflow
… of declarative memory. The tasks of choosing a hashtag for a tweet and tagging a post on StackOverflow were framed as declarative memory retrieval problems. Two state-of-the-art cognitively-plausible declarative memory models were evaluated on how accurately they predict a user’s chosen tags: an …
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Bayasibulala: #AmINext? an analysis of Instagram as a tool for activism against Sexual Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
… years has shown that there is a global rise in hashtag activism, this type of activism has also inspired what scholars call - hashtag feminism. Hashtag feminism utilizes Social Networking Sites to raise awareness about issues that are often not covered in traditional news media outlets such as …
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Quantifying Agenda Setting Effects on Twitter and Digital Media
… astroturfed campaign to elevate political hashtags favorable to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Trending Topics pages. While the astroturfed hashtags did reach \textit{trending} status, I find little evidence that the coordinated tweets were popular. The highly retweeted tweets …
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Mobilising restless radicals: the #AmINext movement and the formation of feminist digital counterpublics against gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa
… South Africa. The prevalent research on feminist hashtag activism has made critical links between the use of social media and the platforming of women's rage as a form of mobilising protests against GBV and femicide. However, less analysis has focused on the political significance of affects such …
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The Price Of “Normal”: Masking In The Autistic Community
… On Twitter, many autistic people utilize a hashtag to connect with others in the online Autistic community. This qualitative study analyzes the Twitter hashtag, #ActuallyAutistic, to understand masking and camouflaging from the autistic point of view. A qualitative descriptive approach was …
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This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus
… The focus of this study is the viral Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen, a hashtag that rose in popularity following a misogyny-motivated terrorist attack in the spring of 2014. This dissertation treats the #YesAllWomen hashtag as an imagined space and a Discourse (Gee, 2015) where language serves …
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Comunicación no verbal en la red social Facebook en relación con la Covid-19: caso Pacífico Seguros y el uso de elementos no verbales
… el caso de Pacifico Seguro en relación con el hashtag #NoEstásSolo. A través del hashtag se puede analizar el nivel de aceptación y reconocimiento de los usuarios en relación con los elementos no verbales. Por otro lado, se busca conocer cómo las empresas hacen uso de la comunicación no verbal …
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Making diffusion work for you: Classification sans text, finding culprits and filling missing values
… doctor? Can the temporal features of a trending hashtag or a keyword indicate which topic it belongs to without any textual information? Given a history of interactions between blogs and news websites, can we predict blogs posts/news websites that are not in the sample but talk about the "the …
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Mathematics Teacher Professional Development via Conference Tweeting and Blogging: A Mixed Methods Analysis
… Twitter and blogging. Tweets containing the hashtag #TMC17 were downloaded over a 53-day time period and were analyzed through social networking analysis software to understand the networking behaviors of the participants (Hansen, Shneiderman, & Smith, 2010; Hennig, Brandes, Pfeffer, & …
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Cosplay & the geek: the tension between creativity, inclusion, & gatekeeping in cosplay. What types of gatekeeping do cosplayers experience?
… social media was taken over by #gamergate, a hashtag synonymous with misogynistic discrimination within the game development industry. Soon after this an avalanche of other hashtags highlighting sexism and sexual harassment (e.g., #metoo; #comicgate; #times up) within male-controlled …
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Moving with Stories of "Me too.": Towards a Theory and Praxis of Intersectional Entanglements
… futures, looking towards individual posts, hashtags, comments, images, media stories, the sociopolitical and technocultural contexts from which data emerge, and the relationships between these pieces of data. Within the current technologically motivated big data moment of hashtag research, I …
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The Impact of Offspring Hashtags on Semantic Polarization in Online Social Movements: Evidence from the Indian Farmer's Protest
… this work, we investigate the role of offspring hashtags on the semantic polarization of online discourse between the protest and counter-protest communities over time through the lens of the 2021 farmers' protest in India. Offspring hashtags are those that first appear alongside their more …
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Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity
… resist such narratives. However, in the age of hashtag feminism a new group on social media, body positivity, has become the buzzword among celebrities, news conglomerates, and fashion companies. This study draws on interviews with body positive influencers and Instagram posts tagged …
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An association rule dynamics and classification approach to event detection and tracking in Twitter.
… of data Twitter generates, users append the hashtag (#) symbol as prefix to keywords in tweets. Hashtag labels describe the content of tweets. The use of hashtags also makes it easy to search for and read tweets of interest. The volume of Twitter streaming data makes it imperative to derive …
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From #MenAreTrash to #MensConference: Networked masculinities in South African Twitter
… 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 digital feminist campaign against gender-based violence, and men's response through the hashtag …
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