Hashtag publics : the power and politics of discursive networks / edited by Nathan Rambukkana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rambukkana, Nathan.

Series:

Digital formations ; vol. 103.

Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; vol. 103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks--Political aspects.

Online social networks.

Information technology--Political aspects.

Information technology.

Political participation--Technological innovations.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2015]

Summary:

This collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream - in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed and messy, and ones in which new forms of collective power are being forged on the fly and in the shadow of loftier mainstream spheres. Hashtags are deictic, indexical - yet what they point to is themselves, their own dual role in ongoing discourse. Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti. Book jacket.

Contents:

introduction: Hashtags as technosocial events

Twitter hashtags from adhoc to calculated publics

From #RaceFall to #Ferguson: the digital intimacies of race-activist hashtag publics

#auspol: the hashtag as community, event, and material object for engaging with Australian politics

Hashtag as hybrid forum: the case of #agchatoz

#Time

Come together, right now: retweeting in the social model of protest mobilization

Hashtagging the invisible : bringing private experiences into pubic debate: an #outcry against sexism in Germany

Hashtags as intermedia agency resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil

#FuckProp8: how temporary virtual communities around politics and sexuality pop up, come out, provide support, and taper off

More than words: technical activist actions in #CiSPA

Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul's Drag Race

Living the #Quiet Life: talking about quiltmaking on Tumblr

Jokin' in the First World: appropriate incongruity and the #firstworldproblems controversy

#RaiderNation: the digital and material identity and values of a superdiverse fan community

Black Twitter: building connection throught cultureal conversation

#BlackTwitter: making waves as a social media subculture

The 1x1 common: the role of Instagram's hashtag in the development and maintenance of feminist exchange

Meta-hashtag and tag co-occurance: from organization to politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere

The Twitter citizen: problematizing traditional media dominance in an online political discussion

Hashtagging #HigherEd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433128998

1433128993

9781433128981

1433128985

OCLC:

911255259

Publisher Number:

40025347558