{"id":5099,"date":"2025-04-20T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2025-04-20T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:24:20","slug":"shaping-public-discourse-xs-influence-on-social-justice-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5099\/shaping-public-discourse-xs-influence-on-social-justice-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaping Public Discourse: X&#8217;s Influence on Social Justice Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper explores how X (formerly Twitter) acts as an online network to drive social change through grassroots movements. Examining the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements demonstrates how the platform rapidly spreads information, mobilises communities, and pressures institutions and political leaders to act. Hashtags and trending topics allow users to bypass traditional media to highlight social injustices and shape public discourse on the issues of these movements. X has emerged <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5099\/shaping-public-discourse-xs-influence-on-social-justice-movements\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper explores how X (formerly Twitter) acts as an online network to drive social change through grassroots movements. Examining the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements demonstrates how the platform rapidly spreads information, mobilises communities, and pressures institutions and political leaders to act. Hashtags and trending topics allow users to bypass traditional media to highlight social injustices and shape public discourse on the issues of these movements. X has emerged &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}