Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice

Freelon, Deen Principal Investigator
McIlwain, Charlton D. Principal Investigator
Clark, Meredith D. Principal Investigator

2023-05-30

v1

URL: http://dfreelon.org/2017/01/03/beyond-the-hashtags-twitter-data/

Published

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Freelon, Deen, McIlwain, Charlton D., and Clark, Meredith D. Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-05-30. https://socialmediaarchive.org/record/46

X (formerly Twitter)
Datasets

2014-06-01, 2015-05-31

Twitter

These data cover a critical time in which social media was used to raise awareness about police killings of unarmed Black citizens in the United States.

This Twitter dataset contains all 40,815,975 tweets matching at least one of the following 45 keywords that were posted between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015 and had not been deleted or protected as of July 2015:
“akai gurley”, “black lives matter”, “dante parker”, “eric garner”, “eric harris”, “ezell ford”, “freddie gray”, “jerame reid”, “john crawford”, “jordan baker”, “kajieme powell”, “mckenzie cochran”, “michael brown”, “mike brown”, “phillip white”, “tamir rice”, “tanisha anderson”, “tony robinson”, “tyree woodson”, “victor white”, “walter scott”, “yvette smith”, #akaigurley, #blacklivesmatter, #danteparker, #ericgarner, #ericharris, #ezellford, #ferguson, #freddiegray, #jeramereid, #johncrawford, #jordanbaker, #kajiemepowell, #mckenziecochran, #michaelbrown, #mikebrown, #philipwhite, #tamirrice, #tanishaanderson, #tonyrobinson, #tyreewoodson, #victorwhite, #walterscott, #yvettesmith

Full text and metadata of tweets in this dataset are available to approved researchers via a virtual data enclave. Tweet IDs were rehydrated using the Twitter API in February 2022. Due to tweet deletions over time, the rehydrated collection is likely incomplete compared to the original set of tweets used in the Beyond the Hashtags report published in 2016.

Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice, Report, Is Source Of, URL, https://cmsimpact.org/resource/beyond-hashtags-ferguson-blacklivesmatter-online-struggle-offline-justice/
DocNow Catalog Record, Electronic Source, is Version Of, URL, https://catalog.docnow.io/datasets/20170104-beyond-the-hashtags-ferguson-blacklivesmatter-and-the-online-struggle-for-offline-justice/