@abucci unsurprisingly I'm with you. Imo that was the core sin of "#HashtagActivism." They were so entranced with the network analyses that Twitter data allowed them to do that they didn't consider how people work: how does change happen; where does power lie; etc. What the book ultimately did was accidentally analyze Twitter as a medium then ascribe the results to people or society. No outside Twitter theorizing or grounding in actual human topics. It's a frustrating trend to say the least.
#HashtagActivism
A Response to Jackson et al’s “#HashtagActivism” https://www.anarchistfederation.net/a-response-to-jackson-et-als-hashtagactivism/
«But the organizational dynamics of hashtag networks are pathological precisely because they are those of Twitter, a for-profit social media company. The networks in this book consistently end up with a de facto celebrity representative as the central node in a larger network.»
Great post on #HashtagActivism by @theluddite
A Response to Jackon et al’s “#HashtagActivism”
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/a-response-to-jackon-et-als-hashtagactivism/
"On the roughly two-year anniversary of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, with which he is openly supporting fascism, I want to discuss Jackson, Bailey, and Foucault Welles’s #HashtagActivism. The book is a defense of its namesake practice, which they provide through...
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A Response to Jackon et al’s “#HashtagActivism” https://www.anarchistfederation.net/a-response-to-jackon-et-als-hashtagactivism/
The book "#HashtagActivism" is a robust and thorough defense of its namesake practice. It argues that Twitter disintermediated public discourse, analyzing networks of user interactions in that context. But the book overlooks that Twitter is actually a heavy-handed intermediary. Twitter imposes strict requirements on content, like a character limit, and controls who sees what and in what context. Reintroducing Twitter as the medium and reinterpreting the analysis exposes serious flaws.
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Giving a keynote this week at Freie Universität #Berlin on feminist methods for studying #socialmedia mobilization. Reflecting on all the things that have changed since we published #hashtagactivism in 2020. Looking forward to learning for the other presenters!
https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/en/Medien_Flyer_Poster/Workshop_Program_2024.pdf
@alice cool I’ll play! Not STEM but adjacent. PhD in mass communication and I was trained in African American studies, media studies, and social movement studies. My work focuses on how marginalized groups create and levy media & tech for social change. I wrote a book about the Black press and celebrity protest, another on #HashtagActivism by #feminist and racial justice networks, and am now writing a cultural history of Black mediamakers
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, users flocked to Mastodon, with 230,000 new members in the first week of November.[22] A Forbes article quoted Rochko saying he was optimistic that people who left Twitter for Mastodon would "enjoy a different kind of social media experience".
@inquiline really enjoyed this, in so many ways! Great to have an analysis of, and a term for; #LossyDistribution. And the case study works brilliantly. As does the auto ethnographic approach!
It’s really important to discuss how #HashtagActivism is curtailed here; as well as how different hashtags in general fare here. Thinking also about the #ClimateDiary project. It frustrates me that - as I only realised about a year in - that I can’t see all posts. 1/2
It's a hashtag world!
"Unlike commercial social media algorithmically vying for users’ attention, Mastodon does not push posts into a user’s view. (This feature even leads some frustrated users to mistakenly conclude the network is empty, if they do not understand that they need to follow other accounts or navigate to feeds to see posts.)
“hashtag activism”
The hashtag is a uniquely important tool in Mastodon"
- Christina Dunbar-Hester
@sjjphd I am thrilled to see you here. I am excited to let yo know I recieved my copy of #HashtagActivism today. yay! I was sad it took forever to get to Nigeria but once I saw the mail delivered today... I was overjoyed. I am diving into it asap. Thanks again to you all for writing such an important book
Seems like a good time to re #introduce myself and write my first #mastodon thread. Hi! I wrote a book about #activism on #Twitter https://www.amazon.com/HashtagActivism-Networks-Gender-Justice-Press/dp/0262043378 But, I've never been a #tech optimist. We've always known that technology can be used for good, mundane, and evil. What I am an optimist about is the ability of ordinary people to organize for change and insist on being heard, that's the central argument of #HashtagActivism.
@sjjphd Welcome! #HashtagActivism FTW!
I'm very interested in your experience with debirdify ... the demographics are so skewed here that I caution people that bulk-important is likely to give an overwhelmingly-white list of people they're following, which can be hard to recover from later. But, you might well have different results. Either way, enquiring minds want to know!
[I used fedifinder.glitch.me, which is similar, and selectively followed people to avoid that dynamic.]
Me newbie intro: I'm Sarah (she/her). In short I think about/research #race, #gender, #democracy, and #activism through their relations to #media and #tech. I wrote a book about Black #celebrity & the press, then about #HashtagActivism & #counterpublics on that other site, & am now writing a cultural & political history of Black mediamaking in the U.S. I'm a #Sagittarius and I love #dogs, #peloton, #yoga, #protest, and the #outdoors. Based on land stewarded by the Lenape.
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#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (The MIT Press) https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/0262043378/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_BF3757TPCZHNVCHR76PJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
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The Problem With Hashtag Activism
In the thirteen years since Twitter’s inception, users from every political stripe have launched countless campaigns, many of which have subsequently been covered or even adopted by traditional media and become household names. In #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, authors Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles propose that Twitter has […] jacobinmag.com/2020/12/hashtag…
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