[Air-L] Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice

[Deen Freelon]

Colleagues,

My coauthors and I have just released a report on the Black Lives Matter 
movement's use of social media. It is freely available and can be 
downloaded here: http://www.cmsimpact.org/blmreport . The report was 
funded by a grant from the Spencer Foundation.

This report is the culmination of over a year's worth of planning, grant 
writing, and research. It is based on an analysis of over 40 million 
tweets, over 100,000 hyperlinks, and 40 participant interviews. If 
you're interested in Black Lives Matter, social media research, and/or 
data science, I hope you'll give it a look.

As lead author, I'd be happy to chat about this if you have any 
questions. Happy leap day, ~DEEN

-- 
Deen Freelon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
American University School of Communication
Office: McKinley 325
dfreelon at gmail.com | http://dfreelon.org | @dfreelon