{"id":17334,"date":"2020-11-24T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/?p=17334"},"modified":"2020-11-24T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:00:20","slug":"digital-protest-hashtag-ethnography-and-the-racial-politics-of-social-media-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/digital-protest-hashtag-ethnography-and-the-racial-politics-of-social-media-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States<\/p>\n<p>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 \u0093hashtag activism\u0094 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 \u0093hashtag ethnography.\u0094 [digital anthropology, digital activism, social movements, social media, semiotics, race, Twitter, Michael Brown, United States]<\/p>\n<p>O 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, \u0093I just saw someone die,\u0094 followed by a photograph taken from behind the beams of a small wooden balcony overlooking Canfield Drive, where Michael Brown\u0092s lifeless body lay uncovered, 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, pleading \u0093don\u0092t shoot.\u0094 The impromptu gathering soon turned into a sustained protest marked by daily demonstrations and violent confrontations with highly armed local police\u0097all of which were documented in detail across social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Vine.<\/p>\n<p>Occurring on the heels of other highly publicized killings of unarmed black men\u0097such 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)\u0097the death of Michael Brown quickly captured the imagination of thousands across and beyond the United States.2<\/p>\n<p>Protestors from around the nation flocked to Ferguson to participate in demonstrations calling for the arrest of the officer responsible for the fa- tal shooting. Television viewers tuned in across the country to watch live news coverage of the violent confrontations between the protestors and the highly armed local police. Images of these confrontations circulated widely in national and international news coverage, and news of these events quickly went \u0093viral\u0094 across social media. 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