The #BlackLivesMatter, or #BLM, movement was founded in 2012 by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The hashtag was first used on the social media platform Twitter to call attention to the injustice of the ...
#BlackLivesMatter is an incredibly powerful example of how a social media hashtag can ignite action in the real world and be tied directly to a major movement. The implications for something like this are huge considering that we are all only becoming more digitally connected by the day. A ...
The evolution of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter: social movements, big data, and raceIn today's world, more and more organizations are adopting automation. Educational institutions are also willing to have such automated environment. The challenge is to find a solution that is extendible, flexible ...
但除了可见性之外,他们还利用算法来行使和激发自己的“叙事能动性”(Yang,2016),即能够以自己的方式讲述自己的故事,并对事件和经历建立框架。这一点可以从包括#OccupyWallStreet、#BlackLivesMatter和#YoSoy132在内的各种运动中得到证实。正如社会运动学者Zeynep Tufekci所强调(2017),最强大的运动是那些能够发展“叙事...
President Barack Obama praised the Black Lives Matter movement as “really effective in bringing attention to problems,” which is a sentiment artists and filmmakers like Ryan Coogler, Justin Simien, Ava DuVernay and Beyonce Knowles have enacted through their work. Whether exposing police brutality an...
Local social movements typically refer to those in cities or towns, but they can also affect smaller constituencies, such as college campuses. Sometimes colleges are smaller hubs of a national movement, as seen during the Vietnam War protests or the Black Lives Matter protests. Other times, coll...
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc.’s tweet echoed Díaz-Canel’s early statements that blamed the U.S. embargo for the country’s economic devastation. Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis in decades and is also facing a resurgence of coronavirus cases. ...
“It’s one of those things that I started doing so people can respect it,” Adebayo told The Undefeated. “Black Lives Matter isn’t just a movement. It’s a lifestyle. A lot of people know that. A lot of people are scared of that. … I embrace it because I’m a Black man....
The social media platform Twitter platform has played a crucial role in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The immediate, flexible nature of tweets plays a crucial role both in spreading information about the movement’s aims and in organizing individual protests. Twitter has also played an ...
movement, specifically from blacklivesmatter, but queering race works toward destabilizing the very discourses that maintain white supremacy. With this said, I will always personally remain committed to various forms of political action and grass roots activism, but I also see the potential for quee...