We here, we bin doing dis, & we een gern nowhere: Expressions of Caribbean Identity Through Twitter Aggregator Accounts

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Abstract: People across the Caribbean diaspora have utilized Twitter to build community across locations, build a collective sense of identity across rich debate on topics of interest, and innovate by adapting and appropriating the affordances of Twitter and other social media platforms. Through vernacular engagements in the digital space Caribbean people express their worldview, and assert themselves in ways that mark the digital space an important site for studying Caribbean identity expression. As an entryway into the use of these tools for identity expression, this work centers aggregator accounts, which produce and collect Caribbean content and channel them into one place, the feed, for consumption by a large number of Caribbean people. This thesis asks: How do aggregator accounts draw upon the technical affordances of the platform, the social culture of the digital age, and Caribbean culture to facilitate Caribbean identity expression? Aggregator accounts are found to both use Twitter sociocultural and Caribbean cultural affordances to express a Caribbean ethos, and to facilitate the use of these tools for users to do the same. Dead simple, all I really talkin’ bout is how we is express ourselves, how accounts like wimatchapp is express Caribbean identity, and how dey is help us express ourselves. Cause if we don’t study us and all the ways we is be dead funny, dead creative, dead expressive who gah study it for us?

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2019

Author	Soles, Gia Paige
Advisor	Banks, Adam J.
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, The Program in Science, Technology & Society

Subject	Caribbean
Subject	identity expression
Subject	sociocultural affordances
Subject	Caribbean cultural affordances
Subject	aggregator account
Subject	Science Technology and Society at Stanford
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bq926xg9004

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Preferred Citation: Soles, Gia Paige and Banks, Adam J.. (2019). We here, we bin doing dis, & we een gern nowhere: Expressions of Caribbean Identity Through Twitter Aggregator Accounts
. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/bq926xg9004

Stanford University, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Honors Theses

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