Hashtags Functions in the Protests Across Brazil
In this article, we discuss the communicative functions of hashtags during a period of major social protests in Brazil. Drawing from a theoretical background of the use of Twitter and hashtags in protests and the functions of language, we extracted a sample of 46,090 hashtags from 2,321,249 tweets r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-05-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015586000 |