Social Media Discourse Community

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Social media has become a part of our daily lives. Compared with face-to-face conversation, people are more eager to use social media. Due to the rapid spread of social media, many of the polities and communities first started with social media. When a community began to establish its own unique language, genres, lexis, and members use communication to achieve the common goal, they form a discourse community. (Wardle 471-473) This essay will analyze a discourse community, #blacklivesmatter and 2 other discourse communities associated with it.

The hashtag “blacklivesmatter” abbreviated as #blm is a political movement founded in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Their goal is to stop violence, injustice and racism

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