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The document discusses several hashtags that have trended in recent years related to social movements and campaigns: - #BlackLivesMatter formed in 2013 in response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and aims to address police brutality against African Americans. - #Islamophobia criticizes poor media coverage that has contributed to increased stigma against Muslims. Reports of anti-Muslim crimes increased significantly after certain attacks. - #MeToo was started in 2017 by Tarana Burke to empower women, especially young black women, to share experiences of sexual harassment and assault. - In summary, social media can greatly impact campaign success by allowing worldwide discussion of important issues through trending hashtags on
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A preeminent form of social activism today is what has been termed “hashtag activism” (Dewey, 2014), essentially the movement to spread awareness online regarding social issues embraced and defined as important by well-known public figures and ordinary people alike. Hashtag activism is conducted on Twitter, an Internet platform actively used by 255 million account holders across the world and passively followed by millions more (Twitter, 2014). According to a study conducted for the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, in 2013, 18% of online adults had Twitter accounts (a 2% increase from the year before) (Duggan & Smith, 2014). Twitter is not the only online platform used for social activism, but it has played a part in a number of broad public campaigns, such as the effort to capture alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, wanted for crimes of mass murder and rape in Uganda (#Kony2012), and the effort to draw attention to injustice in the killing of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman (#JusticeforTrayvon).
In the spring of 2014, a major campaign of hashtag activism was undertaken in response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from a provincial Nigerian boarding school. Outrage over the girls’ abduction by a self-proclaimed radical Islamic group called Boko Haram (which means “Western education is a sin” in the local Hausa language) spread quickly in April and May of that year from domestic Nigerian activists and the young women’s aggrieved parents to become a global movement functioning primarily online through #BringBackOurGirls. Among the political and cultural luminaries tweeting their support of the kidnapped girls and demanding their safe return were First Lady Michelle Obama, British prime minister David Cameron, media personalities Ellen DeGeneres and Piers Morgan, young Pakistani activist for women’s and girls’ rights Malala Yousafzai, and even celebrities like Chris Rock and Amy Poehler. By the beginning of May, #BringBackOurGirls had accrued well over 2 million tweets (McGann, 2014). Online appeals also spurred public protests outside Nigeria, including demonstrations in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., calling for the safe return of the kidnapped girls.
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Hashtag activism is, arguably, a potentially powerful technological instrument of social activism. First, it is a means for raising awareness of issues that might otherwise go unnoticed in our information-saturated modern world, particularly if well-known figures involve themselves in campaigns (as was the case in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign). Supporters of social media activism point out that heightened public awareness can put pressure on officials who are in a position to make or change policies or foster action on actionable issues (Seay, 2014). Second, hashtag activism has the potential to draw together concerned individuals and groups across the g ...
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The #MeToo movement began in 2006 as a way to help survivors of sexual violence share their stories of sexual harassment and assault. It gained widespread attention in 2017 with allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The movement aims to raise awareness of how common these issues are, demonstrate the need for cultural and policy changes, and empower survivors to speak out. It has increased awareness of harassment and assault, sparked legal reforms, and started a cultural shift around addressing these issues. While the movement has made progress, more still needs to be done to prevent harassment and abuse.
Black lives matter
The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 after George Zimmerman's acquittal for killing Trayvon Martin. It campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards people of color. The movement spread on social media under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and brought awareness to police brutality through protests and social media. It has addressed issues beyond police brutality like minimum wage, gun regulation, and has hurt trust and image of the US judicial system.
Feminist Movement and Media
This document discusses the relationship between feminism and media. It notes that as women's issues gained attention in society and politics, the media took notice of feminist movements. This led to changes in media as more women became writers and editors, allowing feminist ideas to be discussed. However, feminism has often been portrayed negatively in media through labels like "man-hater". More recently, social media has helped spread feminist ideas and activism more widely by allowing anyone to participate, though some argue it risks trivializing movements. Overall, the relationship between feminism and media has evolved as both have grown through history.
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Rutgers University
JONATHAN ROSA
University of Massachusetts Amherst
#Ferguson:
Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics
of social media in the United States
A B S T R A C T
As thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of
Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the fatal police
shooting of unarmed African American teenager
Michael Brown in the summer of 2014, news and
commentary on the shooting, the protests, and the
militarized response that followed circulated widely
through social media networks. Through a
theorization of hashtag usage, we discuss how and
why social media platforms have become powerful
sites for documenting and challenging episodes of
police brutality and the misrepresentation of
racialized bodies in mainstream media. We show
how engaging in “hashtag activism” can forge a
shared political temporality, and, additionally, we
examine how social media platforms can provide
strategic outlets for contesting and reimagining the
materiality of racialized bodies. Our analysis
combines approaches from linguistic anthropology
and social movements research to investigate the
semiotics of digital protest and to interrogate both
the possibilities and the pitfalls of engaging in
“hashtag ethnography.” [digital anthropology, digital
activism, social movements, social media, semiotics,
race, Twitter, Michael Brown, United States]
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n Saturday, August 9, 2014, at 12:03 p.m., an unarmed black
teenager named Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police offi-
cer in Ferguson, Missouri, a small town on the outskirts of St.
Louis. Within the hour, a post appeared on the Twitter social
media platform stating, “I just saw someone die,” followed by
a photograph taken from behind the beams of a small wooden balcony
overlooking Canfield Drive, where Michael Brown’s lifeless body lay uncov-
ered, hands alongside his head, face down on the asphalt.1 Immediately
following the incident, community members assembled to demand an ex-
planation for why this unarmed 18-year-old had been seemingly executed
while reportedly holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender, plead-
ing “don’t shoot.” The impromptu gathering soon turned into a sustained
protest marked by daily demonstrations and violent confrontations with
highly armed local police—all of which were documented in detail across
social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Vine.
Occurring on the heels of other highly publicized killings of unarmed
black men—such as Eric Garner (who died as a result of an illegal choke-
hold by New York City police just weeks before the events in Ferguson), Os-
car Grant (whose death was emotionally portrayed in the award-winning
film Fruitvale Station released just one year prior), and 17-year-old Trayvon
Martin (whose 2012 killing sparked national outcry and spurred numer-
ous forms of activism)—the death of Michael Brown quickly captured
the imagination of thousands across and beyond the United States.2
Protestor ...
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Social Media and Politics
Learning objectives
Learning objectives include an understanding of the following:
· The role of social media in democracy
· The role of social media in advancing political reforms
· How social media create polarization
Introduction
Social Media are now a central component of democracy. The media are increasingly associated with political organizing, elections campaigns, accountability, and generally a more engaged citizenry. Social media are a dominant platform through which everyday citizens can share, organize, and communicate their ideas. People regularly use the media to acquire information about leaders and public policy related areas like the environment, education, health and so on. Many public offices now have websites that include social media functions in their communication with the public. Collectively, social media provide a public sphere where individuals can interact with likeminded people on political issues and provide criticism and support for leaders. However, while social media platforms make many issues accessible to increasingly large groups, the media have the potential to create polarization. Specifically, many blogs are quite subjective while some forms of media promote hatred and intolerance. Additionally, it is also difficult to examine the extent to which social media really alters public opinion as more research is needed. Lastly, questions remain on how much time users are prepared to devote their time on the social media for political problems.
Social Media and Elections
Popular social networks have transformed the use of the internet as a political tool for democratic transitions. Barack Obama’s historic in 2008 win was attributed to a new media strategy inspired by popular networks such as MySpace and Facebook. The campaign’s website My.BarackObama.com, allows supporters to join local groups, create events, sign up for updates and set up personal fund-raising pages. The campaign was spearheaded by Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. The social networks helped Obama raise more than two million donations of less than $200 each (Stelter, 2008). This success was based on huge investments on social media. The campaign spent $3 million on online advertising that targeted potential voters and online tools providing details of voting locations (Stelter, 2008).
Similarly, social media was extensively used in Canada’s 2011 elections. The elections were dubbed the “social media elections” or “election 2.0.” Harris (2011) observed that the social media served as “a one-stop shopping for parodies, speech remixes, gotcha moments, unconventional ads, and attacks so fiery, they risk scorching your computer monitor.” Two "vote mob" videos simultaneously held spots in the Top 10 on YouTube. A satirical video juxtaposing a Harper speech with an address by Star Wars' evil Emperor Palpatine drew more than 114,000. The University of Guelph's "vote mob" videos were viewed more than 33,000 .
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Social media can’t provide what social change has always required.
ANNALS OF INNOVATION
SMALL CHANGE
Why the revolution will not be tweeted.
by Malcolm Gladwell
OCTOBER 4, 2010
t four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at
the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black
college a mile or so away.
“I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress.
“We don’t serve Negroes here,” she replied.
The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at
one end. The seats were for whites. The snack bar was for blacks. Another employee, a black woman who worked at the
steam table, approached the students and tried to warn them away. “You’re acting stupid, ignorant!” she said. They didn’t
move. Around five-thirty, the front doors to the store were locked. The four still didn’t move. Finally, they left by a side
door. Outside, a small crowd had gathered, including a photographer from the Greensboro Record. “I’ll be back
tomorrow with A. & T. College,” one of the students said.
By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the
original four. The men were dressed in suits and ties. The students had brought their schoolwork, and studied as they sat
at the counter. On Wednesday, students from Greensboro’s “Negro” secondary school, Dudley High, joined in, and the
number of protesters swelled to eighty. By Thursday, the protesters numbered three hundred, including three white
women, from the Greensboro campus of the University of North Carolina. By Saturday, the sit-in had reached six
hundred. People spilled out onto the street. White teen-agers waved Confederate flags. Someone threw a firecracker. At
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noon, the A. & T. football team arrived. “Here comes the wrecking crew,” one of the white students shouted.
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Kaelan Wong
Professor Gina Gemmel
English 161
December 12, 2017
Social Media’s Victory in the 2016 Presidential Election
There has been a lot of talk since the 2016 presidential election because of how unique it
was compared to all the previous ones. Only recently has social media started to play a
significant role in political campaigns, which can clearly be seen with Donald trump’s campaign
in the 2016 election. This paper examines articles written by Michael Barbaro and Christine
Lagorio-Chafkin for the New York Times alongside academic journals written by Gunn Enli and
Frida Ghitis for the European Journal of Communications and the World Politics Review,
respectively. Regarding social media, many tend to focus on its rise in popular culture, the
following of people of people that it tends to bring, and its use by the candidate or its political
party. Although there are people who argue that Trump’s political views and ideologies are what
gave him an advantage, Trump’s social media is what led him to victory.
For one thing, it is clear that social media is generally on the rise in society, today. A
majority of researchers would agree that the rise of social media has been prominent in these past
few years. Michael Barbaro, author of “Pithy, Mean, and Powerful: Donald Trump Mastered
Twitter for 2016,” states how social media is free and can relay information to the public in a
quick way. Barbaro points out how this can be useful, especially as it slowly substitutes for
“costly, conventional” methods. As an example, Barbaro mentions how rival campaigns
acknowledge the advantage Trump has because of his millions of Twitter followers and how he
gets more mentions and retweets compared to other candidates. Gunn Enli, author of “Twitter as
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in the 2016 US Presidential Election,” takes this further, believing that social media can easily
reach the masses and serve as a main source of information. Enli reminds us that new platforms
have emerged while existing ones have expanded. Christin Lagorio-Chafkin, author of “Reddit
and the God Emperor of the Internet,” has a more specific focus on social media, claiming that
Reddit has become one of the most significant websites on the internet. Lagorio-Chafkin
observes how Trump’s subreddit “The_Donald” has gained around 300,000 members (It has
over half a million now as of October 2017). On the other hand, Frida Ghitis, author of “Trump’s
Victory Was Aided by Russia’s Weaponized Social Media Campaign,” takes on a different
focus: WikiLeaks. Arguably a type of social media, WikiLeaks grew to a significant size such
that it could be used to weaponize information. While all four authors believe that social media is
on the rise, Barbaro and Enli focused on Twitter’s rise. On the other hand, Lagorio-Chafkin puts
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Alexandria Seballos
Dr. Gina Gemmel
English 161
19 October 2018
Research Proposal: Sexism on Social Media
The research question that is driving my inquiry is why social media has a bias against
women. This is an important question because sexism has been a problem that has plagued
women all over the world for centuries and the emerging use of technology and social media
only allows more avenues for sexism. As technology has advanced and become part of our daily
lives so too has the use of social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. In this day
and age social media has become a part of our culture, allowing us to connect and share our lives
with others. While this may seem very positive and beneficial, my research has shown that it also
creates new outlets for bias and harassment, largely against women, as degrading and sexist
posts, images, and comments can now be repeatedly sent to a single person or made public to
anyone that has a social media account.
Although social media is a newer addition to technology, there are arguments discussing
how social media both harms and helps women. Those such as Marwick, Buni and Chemaly, and
Daniels and Zurbriggen argue that social media does more harm as it facilitates violence,
harassment, and negative stereotypes against women. Many social media sites allow images
depicting violence against women and comments threatening women to circulate around their
site as well as permit pages dedicated to hating women to stay on the site. On top of that, many
social media sites reinforce female stereotypes by encouraging women to present themselves in a
certain light online. However, there are some, such as Chittal, who believe that social media can
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help women. Chittal argues that social media gives women a voice and allows them to speak out
against violence and injustices in a more public setting.
While many argue that social media is very beneficial to women, especially in recent
years with the new wave of feminism, I argue that social media is still a place that fosters sexism
and encourages bias and violence against women. Recently, many women have recognized and
spoken out about this problem and are pushing social media companies to do something about
this issue, such as hiring more people to perform moderation on the sites or being more
transparent about what can be said online. I agree with their demands and believe that social
media companies should take responsibility for the harassment that occurs and create harsher
guidelines that define and regulate what can and cannot be said on their websites.
There are multiple counterarguments that I may encounter while conducting further
research. One is the argument that social media companies should not regulate the sexist
comments and posts because it would be a violation of that user’s freedom of speech. Another
argument is that social media c.
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- Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male, was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. This sparked large protests against police violence and racial inequality.
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The #MeToo movement began in 2006 when Tarana Burke used the phrase "Me Too" to help victims of sexual abuse feel less alone. The movement spread widely in October 2017 when Alyssa Milano encouraged people to tweet #MeToo to demonstrate how common sexual assault and harassment are, especially in the workplace. Millions of people shared their stories publicly, including high-profile celebrities, which increased awareness of the prevalence of sexual misconduct. The movement has since encouraged public discussion and policy changes related to harassment and abuse in various industries like entertainment, politics, sports, and medicine.
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The Black Lives Matter movement was founded to work towards a world where Black lives are no longer targeted for harm. It began as a hashtag and grew into nationwide protests against police killings of Black people. However, others have criticized the movement for solely focusing on Black victims and not also advocating for other people of color who face racial injustices and police brutality. The documents also discuss several cases of unarmed Black and Latino individuals being killed by police, as well as the impact of protests in Ferguson and issues with "Stand Your Ground" self-defense laws.
2019 IPR Disinformation Study
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