{"id":1609,"date":"2021-04-30T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:41:46","slug":"blacklivesmatter-collective-identity-formation-on-twitter-to-call-for-social-and-political-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/2021\/04\/30\/blacklivesmatter-collective-identity-formation-on-twitter-to-call-for-social-and-political-change\/","title":{"rendered":"#BlackLivesMatter, collective identity formation on Twitter to call for social and political change."},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nUsing Black Lives Matter as an example I explore the use of hashtags on Twitter for the purpose of forming collective identity among users, as an effective mobilisation strategy for advocacy movements to rally for social change. However, I argue that the broad nature of tweets and hashtag adaptations which have surfaced that coincide with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, can cause misinterpretations and construct new meanings that may not align with the Black Lives Matter standpoint. Nevertheless, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/2021\/04\/30\/blacklivesmatter-collective-identity-formation-on-twitter-to-call-for-social-and-political-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Using Black Lives Matter as an example I explore the use of hashtags on Twitter for the purpose of forming collective identity among users, as an effective mobilisation strategy for advocacy movements to rally for social change. However, I argue that the broad nature of tweets and hashtag adaptations which have surfaced that coincide with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, can cause misinterpretations and construct new meanings that may not align with the Black Lives Matter standpoint. Nevertheless, Read more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[508,365,521,526,55,523,522,524],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ioa","tag-awareness-2","tag-blacklivesmatter","tag-collectiveidentity","tag-hashtagculture","tag-onlineadvocacy","tag-policebrutality","tag-racialinequality","tag-racism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}