#BringBackOurGirls: digital communities supporting real-world change and influencing mainstream media agendas. Issue 5 (2nd September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carter Olson, Candi
• Is Part Of: Feminist media studies. Volume 16:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 772
• Page End: 787
• Publication Date: 2016-09-02
• Subjects: Cyberfeminism -- #BringBackOurGirls -- digital communities -- hashtag activism -- agenda setting; Feminism -- Periodicals; Women in mass media -- Periodicals; Mass media and women -- Periodicals; Feminist criticism -- Periodicals; Mass media and sex -- Periodicals; 302.23082
• DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1154887
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-0777

Abstract

Abstract: #BringBackOurGirls shows the potential that cyber-communities have for setting the agenda for mainstream media sources around issues that are life-changing for women and girls around the world. The article examines the ways that social media communities sustained the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, bridging online and offline communities to form a united movement. The analysis is contextualized within the online community-organizing framework of Twitter Topic Networks, as theorized in a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center Internet and American Life Project. This essay studies the evolution of #BringBackOurGirls to analyze the ways that online communities can educate, organize, and mobilize publics.