A photo of a stack of off-white books with a char of colorful hashtags across the cover. The cover reads #HashtagActivism Networks of Race and Gender Justice SARAH J. JACKSON MOYA BAILEY BROOKE FOUCAULT WELLES FOREWORD BY GENIE LAUREN

It’s the 6th anniversary of the publication of #HashtagActivism. Much has changed about social media since @moyazb.bsky.social @foucaultwelles.bsky.social and I started researching the site formerly known as Twitter over a decade ago. Forever grateful we were on the ride together.

The reports of the death of the hashtag MIGHT be greatly exaggerated. 😊

Also, taking any excuse to share "Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice"
by Sarah J. Jackson,
Moya Bailey and
Brooke Foucault Welles

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Hashtag Activism: Lessons from Social Movements How brands can ethically align with causes to drive impact and trust. Social media users posted over 47.8 million tweets cementing hashtag activism as cornerstone.

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#HashtagActivism Podcast Book of #HashtagActivism Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, Brooke Foucault Welles. In this podcast, Jeremiah and I take a closer look at the book #HashtagActivis…

The book #HashtagActivism: Networks Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles explores how people from marginalized communities use hashtags on platforms like Twitter to speak out and push for justice. crisstiacom.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/h...

Book Review: #HashtagActivism and the Rise of Digital Movements A journalist’s perspective on how hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo are reshaping activism. Wayne State University, Journalism and New Media (COM 5500) Last Updated: April 6, 2025, 12:43 p…

I’m reviewing #HashtagActivism by Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles in a new podcast, diving into how hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo are reshaping the landscape of activism. #hive55

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The paper takes up the thesis of #HashtagActivism by @sarahjjackson.bsky.social @moyazb.bsky.social and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social that BLM "was able to push the mainstream public sphere on issues of social progress.” But how did this pushing happen and what issues were being pushed? 2/

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At @icerm.bsky.social this week for a Collaborate Group with @drew-lewis.com Rachel Roca and Stefanie Marshall (and @nativemath.bsky.social virtually). Reliving good times - trivia nights and #DisruptJMM. #MixedMethods #NetworkAnalysis #HashtagActivism #IloveProvidence

When we were writing #HashtagActivism many folks said organizing to save Troy Davis on Twitter was the 1st they believed we could really do racial justice work online. Although we didn’t save him, many networks and strategies came from that moment. But the only just thing would be to have Troy back.

#hashtagactivism was born out of a feminist faculty writing group I started. A group of us would meet in the women’s studies conference room (which of course was off where no one could find us) once a week w/snacks to work on our own projects and guess who some of the other members were :)

#HashtagActivism is indispensable on the history of social media activism on Twitter.

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt p

Oh look @mitpress.bsky.social just shared our book, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race & Gender Justice, free on their digital depository! If you want to read about a not so distant period of Twitter's history, and the way justice activists built networks to make waves there, here it is:

Thrilled to have the brilliant @foucaultwelles join us today for the Rutgers NetSCI Distinguished Speaker Series at @RutgersCommInfo to discuss her outstanding work on #HashtagActivism

#DAAAAMN AM team was pulling out Kezar change theory, persistent homology, #hashtagactivism, and complex adaptive systems. Then after eating Peruvian food, the PM conversation is all R, python, GIS, census data, climate justice, redlining, and community meetings in Spanish.

Ok #ica22 we managed to make magic and come up with one extra copy for the #HashtagActivism giveaway! Here are the winners:
@EkaeteGeorge
@Netakv
@MaitrayeeB
@kndmrsl
please stop by the MIT Press stand today 2:30-3 to get your book!

Lovely to see #hashtagactivism front and center at the @mitpress booth at #nca22. Thanks to @sylviamath!

Bonjour #ica22, we are doing a little book giveaway for our first in-person conference since we published #HashtagActivism. @moyazb, @foucaultwelles, and I brought along 3 signed copies. If you’ve taught or cited our work let us know and we might surprise you with one 🤓

We did it gang. #HashtagActivism #NCA21

I see y’all citing and teaching #HashtagActivism. Thank you doesn’t seem like the right sentiment but we are definitely gratified and humbled that our same week the pandemic hit book somehow still made its way to you.

In other back to the office news, I have a stack of #HashtagActivism books, half are signed, that were probably intended for specific people but 16 months later I can’t recall who. If you’re a student or activist & want one DM me a shipping address.

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Looking forward to this conversation to celebrate #HashtagActivism winning the McGannon Center book prize w/ me, @moyazb, @foucaultwelles, @syardi, @kanarinka and @kreissdaniel. March 2nd!
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Ugh. And this one at our book launch for #HashtagActivism at The Strand in NYC on March 3. I’ll never get over how blissfully unaware we look of what was coming... 😭

Honored #HashtagActivism made this fantastic list from @aupresses. Love to see us alongside so many justice-focused books inc. from @queermigrations @sejr_historian @orlandolatino @ProfJeffries @CarwilBJ @AbregoLeisy @SamirS_H @activisthistory & many...

If inspiration is more your speed, also highly recommend the ground breaking, insightful and motivational #HashtagActivism by Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles about the power of counterpublics.

@bleds22e just found this quote "In its most useful and radical form, allyship then draws from the idea that no one can be truly free unless everyone is free." in #HashtagActivism pg 154.

The important thing here is that no technology or platform is inherently liberatory, far from it and generally the very opposite, but the stories we highlight in #HashtagActivism show how innovative and savvy Black and femme folks are at using tech to change public politics.

In the @NewYorker @hujane reflects on what this moment is teaching us about social media activism. Great to see our #HashtagActivism book featured alongside @zeynep @rachelkuo @meredithdclark and @devarashida #BlackLivesMatter #8toabolition...

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Read this crucial conversation with #ASCmediarisk postdoc @zeynoustun & noted feminist scholar @moyazb on networks of digital activism & the striking intersectionalities of systemic racism, gender violence & public health during a pandemic #HashtagActivism https://bit.ly/30BICH1

You can read an excerpt of the forward to our book #HashtagActivism, written by the amazing @MoreAndAgain, today on @lithub. So appreciative of Genie for reflecting on #JusticeForTrayvon #TroyDavis & other efforts that drew many of us to online...

Honored that #HashtagActivism is featured on this list of best tech books of 2020 (so far).

You can check out the ebook for free from @mitpress now:...