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This collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream – in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed and messy, and ones in which new forms of collective power are being forged on the fly and in the shadow of loftier mainstream spheres. Hashtags are deictic, indexical – yet what they point to is themselves, their own dual role in ongoing discourse. Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti.

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Confronting the sociotechnical-communicative phenomena of hashtags is a worthy goal and one that this book accomplishes excellently. Hashtag Publics covers the theories, politics, and popular culture of hashtags through four sections and twenty chapters. The authors deeply engage their topics, providing...insight into prior uses of hashtags, [and] also open[ing] up new possibilities. This text is a must-read for anyone engaging hashtags in our cultural, social, communicative, and political worlds. (Jeremy Hunsinger, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Co-editor of The International Handbook of Internet Research and The Social Media Handbook) Rambukkana's edited collection captivates with its myriad chapters exploring hashtag deployment for public awareness, political engagement, protest, performance, and the creation of new publics. Showcasing innovative digital methods, Hashtag Publics is an excellent and timely scholarly assemblage on the socio-cultural and political logics of Twitter and its uses for social change. (Leslie Regan Shade, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Editor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, Fourth Edition)

Die Idee dieses Buches ist simpel, aber sehr sinnvoll. (Katrin Weller, M&K 4/2016)

"""Confronting the sociotechnical-communicative phenomena of hashtags is a worthy goal and one that this book accomplishes excellently. Hashtag Publics covers the theories, politics, and popular culture of hashtags through four sections and twenty chapters. The authors deeply engage their topics, providing...insight into prior uses of hashtags, [and] also open[ing] up new possibilities. This text is a must-read for anyone engaging hashtags in our cultural, social, communicative, and political worlds."" (Jeremy Hunsinger, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Co-editor of The International Handbook of Internet Research and The Social Media Handbook) ""Rambukkana's edited collection captivates with its myriad chapters exploring hashtag deployment for public awareness, political engagement, protest, performance, and the creation of new publics. Showcasing innovative digital methods, Hashtag Publics is an excellent and timely scholarly assemblage on the socio-cultural and political logics of Twitter and its uses for social change."" (Leslie Regan Shade, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Editor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, Fourth Edition)"

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Nathan Rambukkana (PhD, Concordia University) is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His work centers on the study of discourse, politics, and identities, and his research addresses topics such as hashtag publics, digital intimacies, intimate privilege, and non/monogamy in the public sphere.

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