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Black Twitter is a cultural identity〔Apryl Williams and Doris Domoszlai. ("#BlackTwitter: a networked cultural identity" ), The Ripple Effect, Harmony Institute, 6 August 2013.〕 on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community, particularly in the United States.〔André Brock, ("From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation" ), ''Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media'', 56(4), 12 December 2012 (hereafter Brock 2012).〕 Feminista Jones described it in ''Salon'' as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community ... (are ) proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes."〔Feminista Jones, ("Is Twitter the underground railroad of activism?" ), ''Salon'', 17 July 2013.〕 A similar Black Twitter community is growing in South Africa.〔 Although Black Twitter has a strong black American user base, other people and groups are able to be a part of this social media circle through commonalities in their thought process and actions online. ==User base== According to a 2013 report by the Pew Research Center, 26 percent of African Americans who use the Internet use Twitter, compared to 14 percent of online white, non-Hispanic Americans.〔Maeve Duggan, Joanna Brenner, ("The Demographics of Social Media Users — 2012" ), Pew Internet and American Life Project, Pew Research Center, 14 February 2013.〕 In addition, 11 percent of African-American Twitter users say they use Twitter at least once a day, compared to 3 percent of white users.〔 André Brock of the University of Iowa dates the first published comments on black Twitter usage to a 2008 piece by blogger Anil Dash, and a 2009 article by Chris Wilson in ''The Root'' describing the viral success of Twitter joke memes such as #YouKnowYoureBlackWhen and #YouKnowYoureFromQueens that were primarily aimed at black Twitter users. Brock says the first reference to a Black Twitter community—as "Late Night Black People Twitter" and "Black People Twitter"—occurred in the November 2009 article "What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?" by Choire Sicha, co-founder of current-affairs website ''The Awl''. Sicha described it as "huge, organic and ... seemingly seriously nocturnal"—in fact, active around the clock.〔Choire Sicha, ("What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?" ), ''The Awl'', 11 November 2009: "At the risk of getting randomly harshed on by the Internet, I cannot keep quiet about my obsession with Late Night Black People Twitter, an obsession I know some of you other white people share, because it is awesome." *For Choire Sicha being the first journalist to refer to Black Twitter, see (Brock 2012 ), p. 533: "The initial coining of 'Black Twitter' is commonly attributed to Choire Sicha's (2009) article, 'What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night'." *Chris Wilson, ("uknowurblack" ), ''The Root'', 9 September 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Twitter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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