Hashtags in the Academy and Beyond - Roopika Risam
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This document discusses the use of hashtags for academic purposes. It explains that hashtags can be used to tag and track tweets, archive ideas and conversations, and serve as teaching tools. Specific hashtags mentioned include #dhpoco, which brings postcolonial critique to digital humanities, and #NotYourAsianSidekick, which started a public conversation on Asian American feminism. While hashtags can disseminate ideas and build communities, there is also hashtag weariness and critique of their limits for activism. The document provides tips for effectively using hashtags.
Hashtags in the Academy and Beyond - Roopika Risam
- 1. Hashtags in the Academy and Beyond # Roopika Risam Salem State University Twitter: @roopikarisam
- 2. Understanding Hashtags # Mechanism for tagging and tracking tweets # Archive of ideas, events, conferences, conversations # Teaching tool
- 3. Understanding Hashtags # Medium for disseminating ideas # Way of building communities # Lends mode of permanency to ephemerality of Twitter
- 4. Why Use Hashtags? # Work in service of scholarship # Challenge stereotype of solitary academic toiling in obscurity # Untether pedagogy from mooring within the academy
- 5. #dhpoco
- 6. 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
- 7. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. Hashtag Backlash # Hashtag weariness # Critiques of the limits of “hashtag activism” # Social media as poor substitute for organizing and activism
- 11. 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