TY - GEN
T1 - Did the Black Panther Movie Make Blacks Blacker? Examining Black Racial Identity on Twitter Before and After the Black Panther Movie Release
AU - Firmansyah, Firman M.
AU - Jones, Jason J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The Black Panther movie release in early 2018 has been a phenomenon not only in the entertainment industry but also in American society. Film critics and major media have claimed that this award-winning movie has played significant roles in the African American community. Nevertheless, little research has been done to confirm such effects. Using publicly available data from Twitter as a proxy to measure black racial identity, we found that there were significant differences in the prevalence of Twitter users having black identifiers (i.e., African/Afro American, black, woke) in their bios before and after the Black Panther movie release, F(2, 858) = 92.097, p <.001, and between black male and female users, F(1, 858) = 19, 239, p <.001. How these findings illuminate the association between the Black Panther movie and black racial identity, which may then shed more light on how the former may affect the latter through the lens of social identity theory is discussed.
AB - The Black Panther movie release in early 2018 has been a phenomenon not only in the entertainment industry but also in American society. Film critics and major media have claimed that this award-winning movie has played significant roles in the African American community. Nevertheless, little research has been done to confirm such effects. Using publicly available data from Twitter as a proxy to measure black racial identity, we found that there were significant differences in the prevalence of Twitter users having black identifiers (i.e., African/Afro American, black, woke) in their bios before and after the Black Panther movie release, F(2, 858) = 92.097, p <.001, and between black male and female users, F(1, 858) = 19, 239, p <.001. How these findings illuminate the association between the Black Panther movie and black racial identity, which may then shed more light on how the former may affect the latter through the lens of social identity theory is discussed.
KW - Black Panther movie
KW - Black racial identity
KW - Social identity
KW - Twitter
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85076747680
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_5
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783030349707
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 66
EP - 78
BT - Social Informatics - 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Weber, Ingmar
A2 - Darwish, Kareem M.
A2 - Wagner, Claudia
A2 - Flöck, Fabian
A2 - Zagheni, Emilio
A2 - Aref, Samin
A2 - Nelson, Laura
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2019
Y2 - 18 November 2019 through 21 November 2019
ER -