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| − | + | Black Twitter, is an online community that leverages the social platform Twitter to come together to discuss and share race related messages with one another. Twitter, which was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone allows users to “tweet” small short messages and include the use of hashtags to classify and group content together. Black Twitter has leveraged Twitter’s hashtag functionality to create hashtags specific to their community. Users are able to create community specific content to construct a “new cultural narrative, image, and definition” of Black identity. Black Twitter is the most active when race-related issues occur and there is little to no public reaction to the event. A prominent example is the fatal killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri which spiked national online activism through the Black community on Twitter aided by the use of hashtags like #handsupdontshoot, #blacklivesmatter, and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. Black Twitter also comes together to watch and discuss TV shows poke fun about their race through community specific memes and racialized hashtags. | |
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Revision as of 16:44, 15 March 2019
Black Twitter, is an online community that leverages the social platform Twitter to come together to discuss and share race related messages with one another. Twitter, which was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone allows users to “tweet” small short messages and include the use of hashtags to classify and group content together. Black Twitter has leveraged Twitter’s hashtag functionality to create hashtags specific to their community. Users are able to create community specific content to construct a “new cultural narrative, image, and definition” of Black identity. Black Twitter is the most active when race-related issues occur and there is little to no public reaction to the event. A prominent example is the fatal killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri which spiked national online activism through the Black community on Twitter aided by the use of hashtags like #handsupdontshoot, #blacklivesmatter, and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. Black Twitter also comes together to watch and discuss TV shows poke fun about their race through community specific memes and racialized hashtags.
