1. Un(veil)ing context collapse: #hijab.
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Gajjala, Radhika, Akbar, Syeda Zainab, and Faniyi, Ololade
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In this essay, we comment on two highly visible, popular tweets in our datasets around the #hijab that were flagged as highly popular in October 2022. These two tweets are demonstrative of two types of commonly visible strategies on social media—one based on a strategy of intentional context collapse and the other performative activism that serves to extract value for the Twitter user through selective allyship. The essay is taken from a larger investigation around the hashtaggification of “hijab” in 2022 that looks at debates and discussions specifically around two contexts that collide through #hijab—one context is from India and another from Iran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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