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- | Although the data collected was done so by 'linguistic' criteria, i.e. collecting all tweets around the usage of the #notracist hashtag, we were interested in exploring the tweeting practices of those using the hashtag. This involves conceiving the hashtag not only as a linguistic marker, but as as racialized machinic operator that is central to grasping Twitter as a techno-cultural assemblage.(( {{http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/pdfs/nf78_sharma.pdf|Sharma, S. (2013) Black Twitter? Racial Hashtags, Networks and Contagion. New Formations, 78, pp. 46-64.}})) Moreover, we relied on how the "big picture" of the data, as taken on aggregate, can be used to show insight into the construction of the #notracist hashtag without users actively agreeing on a format to the "conversation". It is this phenomena we explore in our [[Findings & Analyses]] | + | Although the data collected was done so by 'linguistic' criteria, i.e. collecting all tweets around the usage of the #notracist hashtag, we were interested in exploring the tweeting practices of those using the hashtag. This involves conceiving the hashtag not only as a linguistic marker, but as as racialized machinic operator that is central to grasping Twitter as a techno-cultural assemblage.(( {{http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/pdfs/nf78_sharma.pdf|Sharma, S. (2013) Black Twitter? Racial Hashtags, Networks and Contagion. New Formations, 78, pp. 46-64.}})) Moreover, we relied on how the "big picture" of the data, as taken on aggregate, can be used to show insight into the construction of the #notracist hashtag without users actively agreeing on a format to the "conversation". It is this phenomena we explore in our [[analysis|Analysis]]. |
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