Hashtags Functions in the Protests Across Brazil
Recuero, R., Zago, G., Bastos, M. T. & Araujo, R. (2015). Hashtags Functions in the Protests Across Brazil. SAGE Open, 5(2), article number 2158244015. doi: 10.1177/2158244015586000
Abstract
In this article, we discuss the communicative functions of hashtags during a period of major social protests in Brazil. Drawing from a theoretical background of the use of Twitter and hashtags in protests and the functions of language, we extracted a sample of 46,090 hashtags from 2,321,249 tweets related to Brazilian protests in June 2013. We analyzed the hashtags through content analysis, focusing on functions, and co-occurrences. We also qualitatively analyzed a group of 500 most retweeted tweets to understand the users’ tagging behavior. Our results show how users appropriate tags to accomplish different effects on the narrative of the protests.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Publisher Keywords: | hashtags, functions, Twitter, protests, content analysis |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Departments: | School of Policy & Global Affairs > Sociology & Criminology |
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