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Twitter Analysis of Tweets that Emerged after the #Wacoshooting

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Title Twitter Analysis of Tweets that Emerged after the #Wacoshooting
 
Creator Moody-Ramirez, Mia
Lin, David
Rollins, Kaitlyn
 
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Description This study analyzes the tweets that emerged following the Waco biker incident of 2015. Findings indicate individuals used Twitter to take a stand on the highly publicized incidents surrounding the shootout. Thousands of tweets emerged with popular hashtags to identify the case such as #wacoshooting, #wacobikers and #wacothugs, #Ferguson, #whitebikers, #blacklivesmatter and #Whiteprivilege. Responses to the Waco shootout were polarizing with individuals weighing in on Twitter to show support or scorn for the bikers, city officials, law enforcement and attorneys. Themes of race surfaced in tweets about the event as it occurred in the midst of the #Blacklivesmatter movement. Twitter users compared bikers to the movement, using tweets and graphics to illustrate various points. The Branch Davidian incident also provided an important backstory to the biker incident. Images of the fiery burning of the Branch Davidian compound, which occurred decades earlier, were still on peoples minds as evidenced by tweets that characterized the incident as just another Waco tragedy.
 
Publisher Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
 
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Date 2016-09-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2185
10.14738/assrj.39.2185
 
Source Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal; Vol 3, No 9 (2016): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
10.14738/assrj.39.2016
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2185/pdf
 
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