Beyond hashtags : racial politics and black digital networks /

Unrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that tumultuous mome...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Florini, Sarah (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Critical cultural communication.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the transplatform network
  • Enclaves and counter-publics : oscillating networked publics
  • "MLK, I choose you!" : using the past to understand the present
  • "This is the resource our community needed right now" : moments of trauma and crisis
  • Conclusion: race, culture, and digital studies.