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Black networks matter : the role of interracial contact and social media in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests / Matthew David Simonson [and four others]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024

1 online resource (85 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-41584-2 (ebook); 978-1-009-47570-9 (hardback); 978-1-009-41586-6 (paperback)

978-1-009-47570-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1423292961     

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009415842

Rechteinformation und Access Status: Open Access.

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LOC-SH: Black lives matter movement ; Mass media and race relations -- United States ; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century ; Social movements -- 21st century -- United States

Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or weak, movement insider or outsider, and ingroup or cross-cleavage. The survey data on the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests show that weak and cross-cleavage ties among outsiders enabled the movement to evolve from a small provocation into a massive national mobilization. In particular, the authors find that Black people mobilized one another through social media and spurred their non-Black friends to protest by sharing their personal encounters with racism. These results depart from the established literature regarding the civil rights movement that emphasizes strong, movement-internal, and racially homogenous ties. The networks that mobilize appear to have changed in the social media era. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.