Contents
Introduction: The Hashtags We’ve Been Forced to Remember - Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman
1. Is Twitter a Stage?: Theories of Social Media Platforms as Performance Spaces - Abigail De Kosnik
Part I: Black Twitter Futures
2. #Onfleek: Authorship, Interpellation, and the Black Femme Prowess of Black Twitter - Malika Imhotep
3. “You Ok Sis?”: Black Vernacular, Community Formation, and the Innate Tensions of the Hashtag - Paige Johnson
4. #Sandrabland’S Mystery: a Transmedia Story of Police Brutality - aaminah Norris and Nalya Rodriguez
5. Creating and Imagining Black Futures Through afrofuturism - Grace Gipson
6. Ferguson Blues: a Conversation With Rev. Osagyefo Sekou
Part II: Mediated Intersections
7. Confused Cats and Postfeminist Performance - Lyndsey Ogle
8. #Whyistayed: Virtual Survivor-Centered Spaces for Transformation and Abolishing Partner Violence - Julia Havard
9. #Gentrification, Cultural Erasure, and the (Im)Possibilities of Digital Queer Gestures - José Ramón Lizárraga and Arturo Cortéz
10. Hashtag Television: On-Screen Branding, Second-Screen Viewing, and Emerging Modes of Television Audience Interaction - Renée Pastel
Part III: Disavowals
11. Hashtag Rhetoric: #alllivesmatter and the Production of Post-Racial Affect - Kyle Booten
12. #Cancelcolbert: Popular Outrage, Divo Citizenship, and Digital Political Performativity - Abigail De Kosnik
13. #Nohomo: Homophobic Twitter Hashtags, Straight Masculinity, and Networks of Queer Disavowal - Bonnie Ruberg
Part IV: Twitter International
14. “Is Twitter For Celebrities Only?”: A Qualitative Study of Twitter Use in India - Neha Kumar
15. Reterritorializing Twitter: African Moments, 2010–2015 - Reginold A. Royston and Krystal Strong
16. #Ifafricawasabar: Participation on Twitter across African Borders - Naveena Karusala, Trevor Perrier, and Neha Kumar
17. Beyond Hashtags: Black Twitter and Building Solidarity across Borders - Kimberly Mcnair
Part V: Notes From the Color of New Media
18. The Color of New Media Enters Trumplandia
19. The Color of New Media Responds To UC Berkeley’s “Free Speech Week”
Contributors
Index