TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simonson,Matthew David
TI  - Black networks matter: the role of interracial contact and social media in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in contentious politics,
SN  - 9781009415842 (ebook)
AV  - E185.86 .S56 2024
U1  - 305.896/073 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Black lives matter movement
KW  - Mass media and race relations
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Social movements
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2024); Open Access
N2  - Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or weak, movement insider or outsider, and ingroup or cross-cleavage. The survey data on the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests show that weak and cross-cleavage ties among outsiders enabled the movement to evolve from a small provocation into a massive national mobilization. In particular, the authors find that Black people mobilized one another through social media and spurred their non-Black friends to protest by sharing their personal encounters with racism. These results depart from the established literature regarding the civil rights movement that emphasizes strong, movement-internal, and racially homogenous ties. The networks that mobilize appear to have changed in the social media era. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009415842
ER  -