SOCIOL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Shooting Of Tamir Rice, Victim Blaming, Hashtag Activism
30 Dec 2016
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Socio106 lecture 25 ferguson event and social media. Michael brown: consider the situation of michael brown, a teenager fatally shot by police in. In thinking critically about social media as a site of analysis, the first question to ask, for anthropologists in particular, is what kind of field site does a platform like. Twitter represent: to answer these questions, it is necessary to begin by distinguishing the town of. Ferguson, missouri, from hashtag ferguson and to recognize how each of these contributed to the formation of the larger event of ferguson. Immediately following trayvon martin"s killing, many social media users changed their profile pictures to images of themselves wearing hooded sweatshirts with the hoods up. African americans within mainstream media and to the systematic profiling and victim blaming suffered by racialized bodies. Postscript: on november 24, 2014, after a grand jury released its decision not to indict.
