Hashtags and the Grammar of Protest
- Zainab O. Lawal(corresponding author)
- Department of Mass Communication, Sample University (SAMPLE)
- * Corresponding author
- Pages
- pp. 25–44
- DOI
- Assigned once JHTS joins Crossref
- Received
- 27 November 2027
- Accepted
- 15 February 2028
- Published
- 26 March 2028
- Licence
- OA CC BY 4.0
Abstract
Hashtags compress political claims into a few words. Analysing 50,000 posts from three Nigerian protest movements, this study describes the grammar of protest hashtags: their imperatives, their pronouns and their code-mixing. It shows how hashtags build collective identity and argues that their brevity is a resource for mobilisation rather than a limit on argument.
Cite this article
Lawal, Z. O. (2028). Hashtags and the Grammar of Protest. Journal of Humanities and Transcultural Studies, 2(1), 25–44. http://localhost:3000/articles/hashtags-and-the-grammar-of-protest