The source of a movement: making the case for social media as an informational source using Black Lives Matter

Cox, Jonathan M.

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1334935

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“…Informational tweets, crafted to share stories about the movement and local and national news, were the second largest category of tweets (39%) generated by the SMOs. This finding is consistent with recent studies that have found that Twitter has become an important source of news for African Americans about the BLM movement and other issues (Freelon, McIlwain, and Clark 2016;Cox 2017;Jackson and Welles 2015;Rickford 2016). The remaining 3,492 tweets in the sample contained content aimed at mobilizing resources to strengthen the advocacy work of the SMOs.…”

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“…Most extant studies have highlighted the role that hashtags play in forming dialogues between core BLM activists and their adherents. These studies have led to considerable gains in our knowledge by demonstrating how these dialogues have boosted the movement's ability to disseminate information and mobilize supporters for protest actions (Cox 2017;Freelon, McIlwain, and Clark 2016;Ince, Rojas, and Davis 2017).…”

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“…One of the defining features of New Social Movements is their utilization of social media to frame their causes and communicate with their adherents (Gerbaudo 2012;Papacharissi 2015;Theocharis et al, 2015). The final strand of research on BLM focuses on the role that social media plays within the movement (Cox 2017;Clark 2016, 2016b;Ince, Rojas, and Davis 2017). The extant studies of the social media dimension of the BLM movement have focused largely on the hashtags that drive conversations between BLM activists and their supporters and opponents on Twitter and Facebook.…”

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What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

Tillery¹

2019

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Hundreds of grassroots protests have taken place across the United States under the banner of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement since 2013. This paper examines the public Twitter feeds of six social movement organizations (SMOs) affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in order to ascertain the nature of the movement from the standpoint of theories of contentious politics. The main finding from the three content analysis studies presented in the paper is that the core activists of the BLM movement use Twitter primarily for expressive communication. Another key finding is that the SMOs examined in this study generated more tweets that framed the movement using the rights-based language of liberalims than frames about gender, racial, and LGBTQ identities. Finally, the SMOs rarely used Twitter to mobilize their followers to engage in contentious politics. Moreover, when they do seek to mobilize their adherents, they tend to do so with an eye toward stimulating participation in the extant political system.

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What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

Tillery¹

2019

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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“…(American Press Institute, 2015). Black Lives Matter used social media to push its agenda and as one study found college students were more likely to get their information on Black Lives Matter from social media than traditional media outlets like CNN (Cox, 2017). FYIL classes can help train students to investigate legitimate information sources whether academic or pedestrian, blogs, tweeted nuggets of information, Facebook, YouTube or news outlets.…”

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Engendering Social Justice in First Year Information Literacy Classes

Pegues¹

2018

Comminfolit

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Information literacy classes are becoming common on college campuses to help first year students learn information search skills necessary for higher education. Free speech debates on some college campuses have bred a level of student activism not seen since the 1960s. Academic librarians can play a key role to educate students in First Year Information Literacy (FYIL) classes with a social justice context inclusive of race, gender and free speech.

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“…Scholars have noted the role that Twitter plays on social activism(JACKSON and WELLES 2016;WILLIAMS 2015;BONILLA and ROSA 2015). Scholars such asBonilla and Rosa (2015) andCox (2017) admit that while there are limitations to social media, we should consider social media as a site for research studies. In the United States Twitter served as one of the first social media sites where people learned about Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri.…”

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Afro-Brazilian women YouTubers’ Black Feminism in Digital Social Justice Activism

Mitchell-Walthour¹

2018

Inter. Bras./Can.

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This article examines how Afro-Brazilian women YouTubers employ the strategy of challenging racism, sexism and colorism through their own articulations of Black Brazilian feminism. They are not a part of feminist organizations but are a new form of activists as they are digital social activists. Their strategies are educating their audiences and challenging their audiences to change the way they think about and treat Black women so that viewers do not produce racism and sexism while empowering Afro-Brazilian women and girls. I argue these YouTubers are engaged in black feminist digital activism. These women draw on media from Brazil and the USA thus engaging how oppression works in both countries with a focus on Brazil. YouTube is another platform that scholars should consider when thinking about digital activism.

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The source of a movement: making the case for social media as an informational source using Black Lives Matter

Cited by 59 publications

References 22 publications

What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter

Engendering Social Justice in First Year Information Literacy Classes

Afro-Brazilian women YouTubers’ Black Feminism in Digital Social Justice Activism

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