id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dtyogxlq4ndbplflzaxpsihlc4 Alvin B. Tillery What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter 2019 27 .pdf application/pdf 11739 1118 56 Abstract: This paper examines the ways that social movement organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement use Twitter through three is that BLM organizations generated more tweets that framed the movement as words, does examining the tweets of SMOs affiliated with the BLM movement as discrete speech acts in the African American counterpublic new social movements are fueled by part-time activists who do not necessarily draw distinctions between participating in disruptive protests, pursuing individual acts of resistance, and even engaging in Internet activism or As Table 1 illustrates, all six of the Twitter feeds of the BLM groups contained fewer tweets in the resource mobilization category than in the informational and expressive communication categories. is to provide a test of Hypothesis 2: the Twitter feeds of the six BLM organizations will contain more social movement frames that call attention to ./cache/work_dtyogxlq4ndbplflzaxpsihlc4.pdf ./txt/work_dtyogxlq4ndbplflzaxpsihlc4.txt