{"id":12462,"date":"2020-06-09T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2020\/06\/09\/blackouttuesday\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:40:40","slug":"blackouttuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2020\/06\/09\/blackouttuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"#BlackoutTuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Muhammad Karkoutli (\u201920), Babbie Center Research Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, June 2, you may have noticed that social media was awash with black squares tagged with the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday \u2013 a response to the brutal murder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/31\/us\/george-floyd-investigation.html\">George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/black-blocks.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12463 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/black-blocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/black-blocks.jpg 650w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/black-blocks-151x300.jpg 151w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/black-blocks-517x1024.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although these black squares expressed a range of messages, the #BlackoutTuesday movement was initially directed at the music industry under a different hashtag, #theshowmustbepaused. The hashtag, #theshowmustbepaused, was created by Brianna Agyemang and Jamila Thomas, two music executives, who intended the hashtag was to serve as a catalyst for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshowmustbepaused.com\/\">conversation, reflection, and ultimately action<\/a> to institute racial justice. Their mission is to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshowmustbepaused.com\/\">hold the [music] industry at large, including major corporations + their partners who benefit from the efforts, struggles and successes of Black people accountable.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The #theshowmustbepaused was meant to pause and \u201cdisrupt\u201d the music industry\u2019s business activities \u2013 internal meetings, releasing new music, and streaming services \u2013 on Tuesday.\u00a0 In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajplus\/status\/1267524600566616076\">several artists and companies<\/a> such as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AppleMusic\/status\/1267633854933852160\">Apple Music<\/a> pledged their support for #theshowmustbepaused. Spotify, a streaming platform, placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/02\/arts\/music\/what-blackout-tuesday.html\">eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence on playlists<\/a> \u2013 the amount of time that police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s knee was on Floyd\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was the #BlackoutTuesday hashtag that gained currency.\u00a0 On Instagram, #BlackoutTuesday had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/blackouttuesday\/\">29 million posts<\/a> whereas #theshowmustbepaused had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/theshowmustbepaused\/\">721,000 posts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The virality of #BlackoutTuesday would spell controversy as more and more black squares would come to be tagged with #BlackLivesMatter. Soon, the feed for #BlackLivesMatter would be inundated and clogged with black squares which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/02\/us\/blackout-tuesday-black-lives-matter-instagram-trnd\/index.html\">obscured the transmission of information<\/a> amongst activists, organizers, and protestors.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, this virality broadened the initial scope of #theshowmustbepaused and thus several different ideas were expressed with the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday. The word network analysis below is an attempt to visualize and map out the different ideas expressed with the hashtag in order to understand what patterns of words emerge. It is an analysis of 15,000 tweets that used the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday.\u00a0 Words that are closely clustered and linked together indicate a higher frequency of use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12464 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/social-media-networks-2048x1280.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12466\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>For example (left), the word \u201cwhite\u201d is linked with \u201cperson, privilege, supremacy\u201d which indicates that these words were frequently used together with #BlackoutTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The words, \u201cperformative\u201d and \u201cactivism\u201d, were also used frequently together which <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12467 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-2.jpg 1084w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-2-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-2-1024x246.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-2-768x184.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a>suggests that Twitter users were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/blackout-tuesday-instagram-was-teachable-moment-allies-me-ncna1225961\">critiquing<\/a> the use of #BlackoutTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Below we can see that \u201ctheshowmustbepaused\u201d is present in the word network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12468\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-3.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2020\/06\/BLM-Graphic-3-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, it is buried under a series of other words \u2013 a metaphor for how the #theshowmustbepaused was eclipsed by #BlackoutTuesday on June 2nd. This may not be a cause for concern for Agyemang and Thomas as their movement, #theshowmustbepaused, was not intended to be \u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshowmustbepaused.com\/\">just a 24-hour initiative<\/a>\u201d but rather, they write that their movement \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshowmustbepaused.com\/\">will be in this fight for the long haul<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Analysis of the Hashtag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":12530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"Muhammad Karkoutli","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,45,2747,23,21,2746,43,91,5,2549,2555,6,2556,72,2631],"tags":[2774,2763,2775],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-comm","category-earl-babbie-research-center","category-english","category-events","category-graduate-studies","category-history-2","category-lang","category-news","category-peace","category-philosophy","category-posc","category-religion","category-soc","category-wilkinson-college","tag-blackouttuesday","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-blm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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