Black Twitter

Black Twitter is an internet community largely consisting of the Black diaspora of users in the United States and other nations on Twitter, focused on issues of interest to the black community.[1][2][3][4] Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes."[5] A similar Black Twitter community arose in South Africa in the early 2010s.[6]

  1. ^ André Brock, "From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation" Archived December 15, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(4), December 12, 2012 (hereafter Brock 2012).
  2. ^ "Black and white: why capitalization matters". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on September 18, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2017. A website originally registered to the man accused in the Charleston killings, Dylann Roof, capitalizes "White" but not "black", as do many other sites. Publications aimed at blacks often capitalize "Black" but not "white", and there are strong feelings that "Black" should be capitalized. (The home page of the church target in the attack, the Emanuel AME Church, does not capitalize "black".) To start with, let us stipulate that any discussion involving race is fraught: Even thinking there is such a thing as race is controversial, since many anthropologists believe that people cannot be so grouped biologically.
  3. ^ Tharps, Lori L. (November 18, 2014). "Opinion | The Case for Black With a Capital B". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 23, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2017. In 1926, The New York Times denied his request, as did most other newspapers. In 1929, when the editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica informed Du Bois that Negro would be lowercased in the article he had submitted for publication, Du Bois quickly wrote a heated retort that called "the use of a small letter for the name of twelve million Americans and two hundred million human beings a personal insult." The editor changed his mind and conceded to the capital N, as did many other mainstream publications including The Atlantic Monthly and, eventually, The New York Times. On March 7, 1930, The Times announced its new policy on the editorial page: "In our Style Book, Negro is now added to the list of words to be capitalized. It is not merely a typographical change, it is an act in recognition of racial respect for those who have been generations in the 'lower case'. "
  4. ^ Apryl Williams and Doris Domoszlai. "#BlackTwitter: a networked cultural identity" Archived September 27, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, The Ripple Effect, Harmony Institute, August 6, 2013.
  5. ^ Feminista Jones, "Is Twitter the underground railroad of activism?" Archived November 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Salon, July 17, 2013.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Serino7March2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).