Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States

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 thro...

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Published in:	American ethnologist Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 4 - 17
Main Authors:	BONILLA, YARIMAR, ROSA, JONATHAN
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Arlington Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2015 Wiley Subscription Services Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	21st century Activism Adolescents African Americans Anthropological linguistics Anthropology Anthropology and Ferguson, Missouri: AE Forum Brown, Michael Demonstrations & protests digital activism digital anthropology Ethnographic research Ethnography Excessive force Ferguson Internet Language usage Linguistic anthropology Linguistics Mass media Michael Brown Misrepresentation Missouri Platform Police Police Brutality Police Community Relations Political protest Politics Programming (Broadcast) race Race relations Racialization Semiotics Shooting Shootings Social activism Social Anthropology Social media Social Movements Social networks Social research Time Twitter U.S.A United States Ferguson Missouri United States > US
ISSN:	0094-0496, 1548-1425
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