#identity Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

• Main Author: De Kosnik, Abigail (auth)
• Other Authors: Feldman, Keith (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Michigan Press 2019
• Subjects: Information technology: general issues; Internet: general works; Media studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Technology; Communication Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented p...