“Compelling, shocking, and inspiring: in documenting how hashtag activism mobilizes, narrates, and legitimates those seeking race and gender justice, this book bears direct testimony to their struggles. Moving and motivating in equal measure it not only extends our understanding, but builds solidarity, too. Read it. Use it. Act on it.”

Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London; author of Digital, Political, Radical 

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“Jackson, Bailey, and Foucault Welles have created a compelling book that simultaneously documents key social justice hashtags over the past decade, explores how these hashtags operate, and produces broader insights about the nature of networked activism for racial and gender justice. This book is a destined to become THE go-to on hashtag activism in general, and Twitter activism in particular.”

Sasha Costanza-Chock, Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT; author of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need 

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“As scholarly and lay criticism paint online collective action as less effective than so-called boots-on-the-ground action, #HashtagActivism argues that the hashtag narratives black/feminist activists circulate online through digital platforms are precisely the terrain where today’s racial justice activists must engage.” 

Charlton McIlwain, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and author of Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter 

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“#HashtagActivism is a groundbreaking text, offering a detailed, thorough, and nuanced analysis of several of the most prominent episodes of digital activism in recent years. The book combines methodological sophistication and theoretical nuance with the voices and experiences of digital activists themselves. It is essential reading, not just for readers interested in Twitter and politics, but for anyone with an interest in contemporary struggles for justice and equality.”

David Karpf, Associate Professor at George Washington University