Twitter has evolved into a change agent technology with the Black community after a Seattle literary agent and one of the jurors tried to sign a book deal after the controversial 2013 State of Florida v. George Zimmerman verdict. Twitter serves as a crowdsource of opinions, outrage and then a unified solidarity/voice of protest by the use of #BlackTwitter. Since Trayvon Martin's death, black twitter is not just a hashtag, it's a representation of the black socially-networked community from pre-teens to those in retirement. There is much to learn about BlackTwitter and its power to elevate innovation.
Publications
The Impact of Live Tweeting on Social Movements
Brandeis Marshall, Takeria Blunt, Tayloir Thompson
Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE Information Reuse and Integration, pp. 209-216, 2018.
EvergreenLP: Using a Social Network as a Learning Platform
Jaye Nias, Brandeis Marshall, Tayloir Thompson, Takeria Blunt.
Venue: IEEE Frontiers in Education, pp. 1-7, 2017.
Data Science Experiences for Undergraduates
Brandeis Marshall
Venue: Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 198-204, 2017.
Presentations
Brandeis Marshall
Invited Talk: Linguistic Diversity in NLP
ASA Symposium on Data Science and Statistics 2019
Learning the Language of BlackTwitter
Takeria Blunt, Brandeis Marshall
Poster: Kennesaw State University Analytics Day 2018
Visualizing Twitter Sub-Culture: Where is Black Twitter?
Tayloir Thompson, Brandeis Marshall
Poster: Kennesaw State University Analytics Day 2018
Signifyin' Groups within Black Twitter
Brandeis Marshall
Talk: BlackComputeHER Conference 2018
Black Twitter's Reaction to the Oscars
Takeria Blunt, Brandeis Marshall
Poster: Spelman College Research Day 2017.
An Analysis of BlackTwitter Through Word Clouds
Author: T. Thompson, B. Marshall
Poster: Spelman College Research Day 2017.
Visualizing BlackTwitter's Response to the Oscars Ceremonies
Tayloir Thompson, Takeria Blunt, Brandeis Marshall
Poster: Spelman College Research Day 2016.
The Grammys and Oscars according to #BlackTwitter
Brandeis Marshall
Talk: Agnes Scott College 2016.
The Grammys and Oscars according to #BlackTwitter: A Preliminary Data Analysis