Emergent Collaboration on Twitter: A Case Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

Daniel  Lundgaard; Liana Razmerita; Chee-Wee Tan

Emergent Collaboration on Twitter: A Case Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

Daniel Lundgaard, Liana Razmerita, Chee-Wee Tan

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This paper explores the organizing elements that foster emergent collaboration within large-scale communities on online social platforms like Twitter. This study is based on a case study of the #BlackLivesMatter social movement and draws on organizing dynamics and online social network literature, combined with the analysis of 2050 tweets collected from days where the movement had high levels of activity. Drawing on the literature review, we propose a framework consisting of three organizing elements: structure, engagement, and communicative content that are essential in analyzing online collaboration. This paper uses this framework to analyze the collected tweets and identify how actors organize and engage in large-scale communities founded by emergent online collaboration. This paper identifies characteristics of how these key elements and a dynamic interplay between the two logics of action foster emergent collaboration in social movements using Twitter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Honolulu
Publisher	Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Publication date	2018
Pages	2193-2202
ISBN (Print)	9780998133119
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	The 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2018 - Waikoloa Village, United States Duration: 3 Jan 2018 → 6 Jan 2018 Conference number: 51 http://www.urbanccd.org/events/2018/1/3/hawaii-international-conference-on-system-sciences-hicss-51

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Conference	The 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2018
Number	51
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa Village
Period	03/01/2018 → 06/01/2018
Internet address	http://www.urbanccd.org/events/2018/1/3/hawaii-international-conference-on-system-sciences-hicss-51

Series	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISSN	1060-3425

Keywords

Social movements and social technologies
#BlackLivesMatter movement
Collective action
Connective action
Emergent collaboration
Twitter

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Lundgaard, Daniel ; Razmerita, Liana ; Tan, Chee-Wee. / Emergent Collaboration on Twitter : A Case Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018. Honolulu : Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2018. pp. 2193-2202 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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Lundgaard, D , Razmerita, L & Tan, C-W 2018, Emergent Collaboration on Twitter: A Case Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. in Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 2193-2202, The 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2018, Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, United States, 03/01/2018.

Emergent Collaboration on Twitter: A Case Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. / Lundgaard, Daniel ; Razmerita, Liana; Tan, Chee-Wee.
Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018. Honolulu: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2018. p. 2193-2202 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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