Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter.

Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter.

Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of extrajudicial killings of Black Americans. In response to #BlackLivesMatter, other Twitter users have adopted #AllLivesMatt...

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Main Authors: Ryan J Gallagher, Andrew J Reagan, Christopher M Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5906010?pdf=render

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