@article{ref1,
title="#SayHerName: a case study of intersectional social media activism",
journal="Ethnic and racial studies",
year="2017",
author="Brown, Melissa and Ray, Rashawn and Summers, Ed and Fraistat, Neil",
volume="40",
number="11",
pages="1831-1846",
abstract="Social media activism presents sociologists with the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how groups form and sustain collective identities around political issues throughout the course of a social movement. This paper contributes to a growing body of sociological literature on social media by applying an intersectional framework to a content analysis of over 400,000 tweets related to #SayHerName. Our findings demonstrate that Twitter users who identified with #SayHerName engage in intersectional mobilization by highlighting Black women victims of police violence and giving attention to intersections with gender identity. #SayHerName is a dialogue that centres Black cisgender and transgender women victims of state-sanctioned violence. Additionally, #SayHerName is a space for highlighting Black women victims of non-police violence. Therefore, we propose that future research on social media activism should incorporate intersectionality as a basis for understanding the symbols and language of twenty-first century social movements.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0141-9870",
doi="10.1080/01419870.2017.1334934",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1334934"
}