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#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States
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As thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the fatal police shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown in the summer of 2014, news and commentary on the shooting, the protests, and the militarized response that followed circulated widely through social media networks. Through a theorization of hashtag usage, we discuss how and why social media platforms have become powerful sites for documenting and challenging episodes of police brutality and the misrepresentation of racialized bodies in mainstream media.
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“Social media create a distorted view of events, such that we only get the perspective of the people who are already in our social network (Garret and Resnick 2011; Pariser 2012; Sunstein 2009).”
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“In response, Twitter users began using the hashtag #NoAngel to highlight the mainstream media's inability to acknowledge the possibility of black victimhood or innocence.”
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“Initial activism around Michael Brown thus revolved around the hashtag #HandsUpDontShoot, often accompanied by photos of individuals or groups of people with their hands up.”
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“However, once Ferguson had stabilized as an important news event, many began tweeting about the events without necessarily marking their posts with a hashtag.”
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“Twitter also became a site in which to draw connections between what was taking place in Ferguson and state-sanctioned violence in other political contexts.”
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“However, recognizing that hashstags can only ever offer a limited, partial, and filtered view of a social world does not require abandoning them as sites of analysis.”
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“the percentage of African Americans who use Twitter (22 percent) is much higher than that of white Americans (16 percent; Bryers 2014).”
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“#Ferguson and its attendant live streams created a similar feeling of shared temporality-particularly during the protests and confrontations with police.”
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“Indeed, some of the most important hashtag campaigns emerging out of #Ferguson were targeted at calling attention to both police practices and media representations, suggesting that social media can serve as an important tool for challenging these various forms of racial profiling.”
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“Twitter allows users who are territorially displaced to feel like they are united across both space and time.”
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“As an article in USA Today documents, over the course of the Ferguson events, Antonio French experienced a huge surge in popularity, going from around four thousand to 121 thousand followers in less than a month.”
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“In the context of #Ferguson, particular users, such as Antonio French (alderman of St. Louis's 21st Ward) and Wesley Lowery (a reporter for the Washington Post), emerged as key informants whose on-theground accounts in Ferguson were retweeted by thousands of Twitter users.”
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“The protests in Ferguson did not quickly fade.”
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“Once again, the media focused not on state action but on the worthiness of black bodies.”
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“While there were, overall, many more news articles written about Ferguson than about the Ice Bucket Challenge in August of 2014, stories about Ferguson generated an average of 256 Facebook referrals compared with 2,106 referrals for stories about the Ice Bucket Challenge.”
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“However, it is worth noting that many who tweeted about #Ferguson from outside Missouri eventually felt the need to visit the town of Ferguson and noted a sharp difference between these two sites.”
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“Social movements have long used media and technology to disseminate, escalate, and enlarge the scope of their struggles: Transistor radios allowed Cuban guerrilla fighters to transmit from the Sierra Maestra; television coverage transformed the riots in Selma, Alabama, into a national event; and e-mail accounts allowed Zapatistas in Chiapas to launch global communiqués.”
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“#Ferguson did what many of these other tools did: It allowed a message to get out, called global attention to a small corner of the world, and at-tempted to bring visibility and accountability to repressive forces.”
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“In addition to these intertextual considerations, hashtags also have the interdiscursive capacity to lasso accompanying texts and their indexical meanings as part of a frame.”
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“Whereas in most mainstream media contexts the experiences of racialized populations are overdetermined, stereotyped, or tokenized, social media platforms such as Twitter offer sites for collectively constructing counternarratives and reimagining group identities.”
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“Through this campaign, users sought to call attention to the arbitrary nature of racialized policing, the vulnerability of black bodies, and the problematic ways in which blackness is perceived as a constant threat.”
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“In addition, hashtags have the intertextual potential to link a broad range of tweets on a given topic or disparate topics as part of an intertextual chain, regardless of whether, from a given perspective, these tweets have anything to do with one another.”
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“One of the differences between Twitter and these earlier forms of technology, however, is its multivocality and dialogicality (Bakhtin 1981).”
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“It was partly because of this heightened temporality that, as others have noted, the news surrounding Michael Brown's death dominated Twitter much more than Facebook.”
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“It is important to understand #BlackLivesMatter not simply as a general statement about the inherent value of black life in the face of state-sanctioned racial violence but also as a reflection of the ways that social media can become a site for the revaluation of black materiality.”
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“This inversion underscores the significance of affirming that #BlackLivesMatter in a context where they are disproportionately viewed as threats by state forces and mainstream institutions.”
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“Thus, there are powerful coordinating relationships between digital and offline contexts such as #Ferguson and Ferguson proper as well as relationships between digital modalities such as the circulation of information via Twitter and cellular text messages.”
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“Collectively, these interdiscursivities constitute the mediatized eventness of #Ferguson (Agha 2011) and the potential ways it can be recontextualized in relation to other such particular events and genres of events (Briggs and Bauman 1992).”
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“John Postill (2014) has noted the ways that the use of multiple, novel hashtags reflects savvy social media users' understanding that Twitter rewards novelty over raw numbers in its trending algorithms.”
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“Wilson's reverse logic, sanctioned by the state, presents a narrative in which an unarmed teenager is a terrifying aggressor and an armed police officer is an innocent victim.”
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“It is thus important to recognize that the reactions to the death of Michael Brown did not spark in a vacuum; they were fueled by accumulated frustrations over previously mediatized moments of injustice and guided by previous digital campaigns.”
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“This event made clear once again state agents' distorted views of black Americans, especially teenagers-how their very bodies are perceived as looming, larger-than-life threats and how any objects in their possession (e.g., candies, sodas, toys, articles of clothing) are read as weapons.”
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“The use of hashtags such as #HandsUpDontShoot, #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, and #NoAngel speak to the long history of inaccurate and unfair portrayal of African Americans within mainstream media and to the systematic profiling and victim blaming suffered by racializied bodies.”
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“That is, the publicness and counterpublicness (Warner 2002) of #Ferguson must be understood as a performative context with the potential to be mobilized as part of social projects across individual and collective scales.”
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“Here, ideas about race transform not just a sign's value (e.g., as a relatively unremarkable piece of clothing or a sartorial practice associated with criminality, as in the case of the hoodie) but the fundamental ontology of a given sign (e.g., as a bag of candy or a gun, a can of iced tea or drug paraphernalia), thus reflecting the semiotic power of race and racialization (Rosa 2010).”
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Eyewitness reports said Michael Brown had his hands up in surrender and uttered 'don't shoot' before he was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson.
“The first of these campaigns was inspired by eyewitness reports that Michael Brown had his hands up in the air as a sign of surrender and had uttered the words don't shoot just before he was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson.”
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There is a long history of state-sanctioned violence against racialized populations in the United States.
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“Similarly, the #BlackLivesMatter campaign in the United States sought to make visible the long neglected victims of police violence, in part through the circulation of hashtags such as #IfIDieInPolice-Custody and #SayTheirNames, that ask readers to imagine themselves in the place of and join together with the voices of the deceased (Bonilla and Rosa 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- BONILLA, Y., & ROSA, J.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- Corresponding author
- BONILLA, YARIMAR
- ROSA, JONATHAN
- Venue
- American Ethnologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-01-15
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 4-17
- ISSN
- 0094-0496 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2021905382
- Cited by
- 1,116
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 51 · 2025: 68 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 118 · 2022: 122 · 2021: 116 · 2020: 236 · 2019: 120 · 2018: 106 · 2017: 68 · 2016: 40 · 2015: 10
- FWCI
- 240.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Ethnologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Keywords
- Ferguson protests, hashtag activism, online protest, social media, police brutality, racialized bodies, Michael Brown, racial politics, political temporality, media representation of race, police militarization, social movements
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