Political identity in contemporary South Africa: a study looking into the construction and articulation of gender on the online phenomenon of Black Twitter

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dc.contributor.authorLebethe, Tsholofelo Emily Kelebogile
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-07T06:20:17Z
dc.date.available2018-06-07T06:20:17Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Arts (Development Studies), August 2017en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the new online phenomenon called Black Twitter and the publics that have been formed on this platform in regards to issues affecting black lives. Specifically, it not only introduces to the reader the South African Black Twitter market, but more importantly, it looks at how Black Twitter users construct and articulate their gender identities online. This is done through analyzing trending topics, particularly, through a specific hashtag (#IFApartheidDidntHappen) and accounts (@blak_terrorist and @KasiMlungu) which offer rich insight around racial identities and enables one to analyze the content and possible discourses that come into play on this Black Twitter platform. This paper also contributes to the growing literature on the growing black middle-class by exploring how Black Twitter is providing a voice to groups that were historically excluded from the mainstream media discourse. The key purpose of this paper was to explore, as has been suggested, Black Twitter as a public platform and how its young group of users are moving into spaces to challenge the status quo and change historically dominant discourses.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianXL2018en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (107 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationLebethe, Tsholofelo Emily Kelebogile (2017) Political identity in contemporary South Africa: a study looking into the construction and articulation of gender on the online phenomenon of Black Twitter, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24625>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/24625
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshSocial media--Political aspects--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshOnline social networks--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshRace in mass media
dc.titlePolitical identity in contemporary South Africa: a study looking into the construction and articulation of gender on the online phenomenon of Black Twitteren_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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