TY - JOUR
T1 - From #selfie to #edgy
T2 - Hashtag networks and images associated with the hashtag #jews on Instagram
AU - Ichau, Elke
AU - Frissen, Thomas
AU - d'Haenens, Leen
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors want to thank Iulia Coanda and Cindy Krassen (both Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium) for their assistance with the qualitative content analysis, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) under grant number G0A8915N. The funding source had no involvement in the study design; in the data collection, analysis and interpretation; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - This paper reports on an analysis of networked representations of Jews and Jewishness on social media. It builds on prior research on the usage of Twitter hashtags for issue framing (Meraz, 2017; Meraz and Papacharissi, 2013), and extends it to the leading photo-sharing platform Instagram. We collected a dataset of 1500 Instagram posts marked with the hashtags #jew, #jewish, and #jews, and combine qualitative content analysis and co-occurrence network analysis to explore themes and representational practices in Instagram content about Jews and Jewishness. Besides a range of representations of private lives, Jewish culture, and history, that are shaped by Instagram's platform affordances, it identifies alternative practices, including meme annotation and sharing political content, notably about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This work contributes to the understanding of how hashtags and visuals are used in the construction of collective representations on social media.
AB - This paper reports on an analysis of networked representations of Jews and Jewishness on social media. It builds on prior research on the usage of Twitter hashtags for issue framing (Meraz, 2017; Meraz and Papacharissi, 2013), and extends it to the leading photo-sharing platform Instagram. We collected a dataset of 1500 Instagram posts marked with the hashtags #jew, #jewish, and #jews, and combine qualitative content analysis and co-occurrence network analysis to explore themes and representational practices in Instagram content about Jews and Jewishness. Besides a range of representations of private lives, Jewish culture, and history, that are shaped by Instagram's platform affordances, it identifies alternative practices, including meme annotation and sharing political content, notably about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This work contributes to the understanding of how hashtags and visuals are used in the construction of collective representations on social media.
KW - Instagram
KW - Hashtags
KW - Jews
KW - Networked representations
KW - Co-occurrence network
KW - SOCIAL MEDIA
KW - DISCOURSE
U2 - 10.1016/j.tele.2019.101275
DO - 10.1016/j.tele.2019.101275
M3 - Article
SN - 0736-5853
VL - 44
JO - Telematics and Informatics
JF - Telematics and Informatics
M1 - 101275
ER -