#books #bookstodon two final books on my personal best-books-read in 2025 list. This one was a recommendation by @jdp23 : the 2020 book #HashtagActivism by Sarah J. Jackson and colleagues
First and foremost this is a great piece of scholarship and I appreciated the methodological approach(es) and the way it manages to write about individuals and communities in a way that is also *with* those individuals.
It‘s was also a welcome reminder for me of where social media has been used for good, given that so much of my focus has been on the bad…
if only we could figure out how to build for the good without the bad
Attached: 1 image Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵 #PhD #ECR #Wissenschaft
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
«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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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
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
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
Ulrike Hahn
The Luddite
manisha
Anarchist Federation
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
[G.R.K.]🌈🏳️⚧️Ⓐ💣¡NoPasarán!
Sarah J. Jackson