A Hashtag and Its Worlds: The Process of Collective Identity in the Age of Social Media—The Case of #TCOT

Reza Mousavi

A Hashtag and Its Worlds: The Process of Collective Identity in the Age of Social Media—The Case of #TCOT

Reza Mousavi

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Collective identity is integral to newer forms of organizing generally labeled as fluidity. Adopting a practice-based Agential Realist framework, this study attends to the process of collective identity enacted in social media prac- tices. The paper reports on an historical ethnographic investigation of the set of practices that led to the emergence and endurance of TCOT, one of the main organizers of the first Tea Party rallies in the United States. Still a work in progress, the paper identifies four boundary processes of unification, fragmentation, incorporation, and exclusion, the intra-actions among which propel the process of collective identity.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, ISandO 2016 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 9 Dec 2016 → 10 Dec 2016

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Conference	IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, ISandO 2016
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	9/12/16 → 10/12/16

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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Collective identity
material-discursive practice
social media

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A Hashtag and Its Worlds: The Process of Collective Identity in the Age of Social Media—The Case of #TCOT

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