Abstract—Social media is the means to register people’s
participation in the virtual world and to organise, coordinate
and/or drive social change, mass protest or any social movement
which brings commendable changes in and around the world.
The concept and practice of hashtag activism are relatively new.
They are very user friendly, by just liking or retweeting the post
on Twitter many social drives and socio-political movements
have gone popular and successful in recent times. It has gained
significance quick as a wink, due to the participation of a large
number of people pan the world, for divergent issues like justice
for victims, human rights abuse, political drama, fundraising,
campaigns etc. This research study which has never been
conducted in its current form clearly showed the use of the
hashtag and socio-political activism on tweeter. The primary
focus of this research was a detailed study of the selected
popular hashtag in recent times.
Index Terms—Social media, communication, virtual world,
hashtag, tweeting-re-tweeting, socio-political movements, social
activism, Twitter, justice, political activism.
Divatia, Ami is with the CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (e-mail:
ami.divatia@cept.ac.in).
Thaker, Prachi was with Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (email-
prachimt7@gmail.com).
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Cite:A. Divatia and P. Thaker, "Socio-Political Activism: Content Analysis of Selected Hash Tags," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 187-192, 2022.