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标题：Hashtags Functions in the Protests Across Brazil
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作者：Raquel Recuero ; Gabriela Zago ; Marco T. Bastos 等
期刊名称：SAGE Open
印刷版ISSN：2158-2440
电子版ISSN：2158-2440
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
DOI：10.1177/2158244015586000
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：In this article, we discuss the communicative functions of hashtags during a period of major social protests in Brazil. Drawing from a theoretical background of the use of Twitter and hashtags in protests and the functions of language, we extracted a sample of 46,090 hashtags from 2,321,249 tweets related to Brazilian protests in June 2013. We analyzed the hashtags through content analysis, focusing on functions, and co-occurrences. We also qualitatively analyzed a group of 500 most retweeted tweets to understand the users’ tagging behavior. Our results show how users appropriate tags to accomplish different effects on the narrative of the protests.
关键词：hashtags; functions; Twitter; protests; content analysis