hashtags in the academy and beyond - roopika risam
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Hashtags in the Academy and Beyond
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Roopika Risam
Salem State University
Twitter: @roopikarisam
Understanding Hashtags
# Mechanism for tagging and tracking
tweets
# Archive of ideas, events,
conferences, conversations
# Teaching tool
Understanding Hashtags
# Medium for disseminating ideas
# Way of building communities
# Lends mode of permanency to
ephemerality of Twitter
Why Use Hashtags?
# Work in service of scholarship
# Challenge stereotype of solitary
academic toiling in obscurity
# Untether pedagogy from mooring
within the academy
#dhpoco
What is #dhpoco?
# Movement dedicated to global
explorations of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and disability within cultures of
technology
# Brings postcolonial critique to the digital
humanities and reframes postcolonial
studies in relation to the digital humanities
What is #dhpoco?
# Began as hashtag
# Hashtag used to test waters on concept of
“postcolonial digital humanities” in scholarly
networks
# Revealed range of attitudes and responses
to the postcolonial digital humanities
#NotYourAsianSidekick
What is #NotYourAsianSidekick?
# Hashtag created by Asian American
activist Suey Park
# Began a public conversation on Asian
American feminism
# Quickly trended on Twitter with thousands
of participants around the world engaging
Hashtag Backlash
# Hashtag weariness
# Critiques of the limits of “hashtag
activism”
# Social media as poor substitute for
organizing and activism
Tips for Using Hashtags # Create your hashtag with care
# Encourage others to use the hashtag
# Engage with users to build
community
# Accept you cannot control your
hashtag
# Strategize for leveraging your
hashtag
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