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Talk by Brooke Foucault Welles in the seminar on Women in Network Science (WiNS) and subsequent discussion


Title: #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

Abstract: The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags, including #JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen, and #MeToo to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this talk, I will discuss my new book (with co-authors Sarah Jackson and Moya Bailey). Combining quantitative network analysis and critical discourse analysis, we explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. We show how marginalized groups, long excluded from elite media spaces, have used Twitter hashtags to advance counternarratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.