[Commlist] New book: Beyond Hashtags by Sarah Florini from New York University Press

Unrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black 
teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. 
Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks 
to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that 
tumultuous moment. While Ferguson and the subsequent protests made black 
digital networks visible to mainstream media, these networks did not 
coalesce overnight. They were built and maintained over years through 
common, everyday use.

/Beyond Hashtags/explores these everyday practices and their 
relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a 
trans-platform network of black American digital and social media users 
and content creators. In the crucial years leading up to the emergence 
of the Movement for Black Lives, black Americans used digital networks 
not only to cope with day-to-day experiences of racism, but also as an 
incubator for the debates that have since exploded onto the national 
stage. /Beyond Hashtags/ tells the story of an influential subsection of 
these networks, an assemblage of podcasting, independent media, 
Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and the network of Twitter users that has 
come to be known as “Black Twitter.” Florini looks at how black 
Americans use these technologies often simultaneously to create a space 
to reassert their racial identities, forge community, organize 
politically, and create alternative media representations and news 
sources. /Beyond Hashtags/ demonstrates how much insight marginalized 
users have into technology.

*Sarah Florini* is an Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at 
Arizona State University.


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