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"Launched in 2006 as a short messaging service inviting users to share chatter-like status messages by asking "what are you doing?" Twitter has become a vexed yet crucial space for public conversation the world over" (86)

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"The significance of the rhetorical practices that make #BlackTwitter such a vibrant space for Black public, counterpublic, and underground discourse lies not only in the fact that interactions among its participants have led to real, offline impact through activism, com

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"One way to understand Nommo at work in Black rhetoric is when something transformative happens through people, language, occasion, and timing come together" (100).

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"a temporally linked group of connectors that share culture, language, and interest, and talking about specific topics with a Black frame of reference...not just limited to US Blacks, but blacks throughout the diaspora."(87)

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"a temporally linked group of connectors that share culture, language, and interest, and talking about specific topics with a Black frame of reference...not just limited to US Blacks, but blacks throughout the diaspora."(87)

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"The gendered nature of Black erasure should never be minimalized. Just as #BlackTwitter drives Twitter, Black women drive #BlackTwitter, often without significant credit" (99).

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"Black discourse...is also about the outlandish, the extreme, the hyperbolic. Just as survival depended (and still depends) on the ability to tell necessary truths on lower registers, the ability to laugh, boast and even lie in loud voices as irreverently as one can imagine has been just as crucial to African-American communication."(90)

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"... the uses if signifyin and call-and-response transform masses of individual interactions and weak ties, like retweets, link shares, and reply tweets, into powerful communal spaces..."(91)

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“Masking and signifyin are absolutely critical to #BlackTwitter’s existence and it’s ability to operate as culturally relevant space for its participants, especially when it’s common knowledge the “tweets is watchin.”(89)”

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When examining #Black Twitter, it is crucial that we don't commit what could be called the Jes Grew fallacy: make the assumption that a new phenomenon or critical departure emerged out of nowhere. (88)

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"Even though the hastag #UncleDenzel, the meme and all the posts connected to it showed that the very reason it went viral was because of how the photograph humanized [Denzel] Washington in ways that his Hollywood image could not" Page 92

"So while the jokes seemed merciless from those outside of #BlackTwitter, the roast was one done in love, poking huge fun at a megastar's expense, but ultimately claiming him as part of an extended fictive family" Page 93

The drag is a "collective clapback" reserved for "people participating in a conversation have erred so egregiously that they are roasted with a significant critical edge" page 93

"Sexist and homophobic actions or behaviours are often subjects that might get someone dragged inside of Black Twitter" Page 93

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"The use of humor online, and the kinds of communal joy that emerges from the call-and-response nature of huge collectives of people joining in on a conversation like this, “serves as distraction” in an environment that constantly bombards users with the specter of Black death and atrocities visited on Black people that lead to both outrage and resignation, action and inaction."
p. 96

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"The THIS!!!!! expresses an affinity with that person and the larger collective."

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"The THIS!!!!! expresses an affinity with that person and the larger collective."

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Pg. 91

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...Black Twitter coheres as such a distinct space within a site that was designed to foster the most immediate and ephemeral kinds of communication depending on understanding the specific history, discursive forms, and rhetorical practices..."(88)

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"Simone Browne (2015) identifies Blackness itself as an object of intense surveillance in public spaces and beyond...This constant surveillance of Blackness in the space of Twitter involves both discursive violence directed at Black users and continued appropriation, erasure, and theft of content" (96-97)