Citations:Black Twitter

English citations of Black Twitter

• 2015 November 11, Keisha Edwards Tassie, Sonja M. Brown Givens, Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 25:

  Those statistics reflect a phenomenon that has been labelled “Black Twitter.” Black Twitter, as described by popular Black feminist and Black Twitter figure Feminista Jones, “can be described as a collective of active, […]

• 2018 September 7, Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Black Lives Matter: From a Moment to a Movement, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 52:

  2 “Black Twitter” Using social media to spread the message of BLM was an obvious choice for the movement's founders—Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi—because it offered them access to a large audience of young black users.

• 2020 February 25, André Brock, Jr., Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 81:

  One cultural-digital practice, the hashtag, works to bring Black Twitter to the surface of mainstream visibility. The longer answer: Black Twitter is an online gathering (not quite a community) of Twitter users who identify as Black and […]

• 2020, Gwen Bouvier, Judith E. Rosenbaum, editors, Twitter, the Public Sphere, and the Chaos of Online Deliberation, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 111:

  Specifically, participants framed Black Twitter as a culturally accessible network within which they most engaged online regarding civic debate. As previous literature explores, Black Twitter is a cultural sub-genre of Twitter whereby Black users tap into long-standing linguistic and cultural practices to find and relate to each other, which is often necessary given the majority of on and offline places spaces that exclude these users (Brock, 2012; Florini, 2013; Sharma, 2013).

• 2022 November 18, Jason Parham, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired‎^[1], →ISSN:

  Funeral arrangements for Black Twitter began in earnest on November 10 when Mikki Boom, a graphic designer who has been a member of the social media platform since 2009, posted a “Celebration of life” flyer to her Twitter page.