Hello Emmanuel: In my research in this area, I think starting with the following book by Paolo Gerbaudo about the use of social media, and in particular Twitter, for social justice movements and activism, would be a great idea. It is excellent: *Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism* Paolo Gerbaudo, Pluto Press ©2012 ISBN:074533248X 9780745332482 ****** Another potentially helpful article because it addresses collective social media behavior although it examines issues not quite of your interest necessarily. However, the main concepts and some of the sources cited in the research may prove very useful to you as well. "Digital Social Norm Enforcement: Online Firestorms in Social Media" Rost, Stahel, and Frey (2016) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155923 <goog_1851162039> * <goog_1851162039>***** A <goog_1851162039>nd here is the background story on the origin of the hashtag, although this is not a scholarly source: https://blog.bufferapp.com/a-concise-history-of-twitter-hashtags-and-how-you... <https://blog.bufferapp.com/a-concise-history-of-twitter-hashtags-and-how-you-should-use-them-properly> *Valarie J. Bell* Dept. of Sociology & Social Work, Texas Woman's University vbell4@twu.edu *Aut viam inveniam aut faciam**. * *I will either find a way or make one. * *--Hannibal, a Carthaginian general famous for repeatedly defeating the Roman Empire.* On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Emmanuel Dabo <emmanuel@emmanueldabo.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, I am leading a research entitled 'Hashtags and collective action in Côte d'Ivoire'. Côte d'Ivoire is a western African countries where a lot of young people are very active on social media. The purpose of the study is to understand: * how people create some hashtags? * how they appropriate them? * what could the appropriation of any hashtags influence media and policy agenda?
According to you, what methodology or literature could be useful for me in this research? Thanks in advance for your feedback. Kind regards Emmanuel DABOChargé de communication - Rédacteur web - Blogueur+225 78 13 97 27 www.emmanueldabo.com Le blog d'Emmanuel DABO Skype : emmanuel.dabo1Sur Instagram et Twitter: @EmmanuelDAB Sent with Mixmax _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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