Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Hashtags We've Been Forced to Remember / Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman -- 1. Is Twitter a Stage?: Theories of Social Media Platforms as Performance Spaces / Abigail De Kosnik -- Part I: Black Twitter Futures. 2. #Onfleek: Authorship, Interpellation, and the Black Femme Prowess of Black Twitter / Malika Imhotep -- 3. "You Ok Sis?": Black Vernacular, Community Formation, and the Innate Tensions of the Hashtag / Paige Johnson -- 4. #Sandrabland's Mystery: a Transmedia Story of Police Brutality / Aaminah Norris and Nalya Rodriguez -- 5. Creating and Imagining Black Futures Through Afrofuturism / Grace Gipson -- 6. Ferguson Blues: a Conversation With Rev. Osagyefo Sekou -- Part II: Mediated Intersections. 7. Confused Cats and Postfeminist Performance / Lyndsey Ogle -- 8. #Whyistayed: Virtual Survivor-Centered Spaces for Transformation and Abolishing Partner Violence / Julia Havard -- 9. #Gentrification, Cultural Erasure, and the (Im)Possibilities of Digital Queer Gestures / José Ramón Lizárraga and Arturo Cortéz -- 10. Hashtag Television: On-Screen Branding, Second-Screen Viewing, and Emerging Modes of Television Audience Interaction / Renée Pastel -- Part III: Disavowals. 11. Hashtag Rhetoric: #alllivesmatter and the Production of Post-Racial Affect / Kyle Booten -- 12. #Cancelcolbert: Popular Outrage, Divo Citizenship, and Digital Political Performativity / Abigail De Kosnik -- 13. #Nohomo: Homophobic Twitter Hashtags, Straight Masculinity, and Networks of Queer Disavowal / Bonnie Ruberg -- Part IV: Twitter International. 14. "Is Twitter For Celebrities Only?": A Qualitative Study of Twitter Use in India / Neha Kumar -- 15. Reterritorializing Twitter: African Moments, 2010-2015 / Reginold A. Royston and Krystal Strong -- 16. #Ifafricawasabar: Participation on Twitter across African Borders / Naveena Karusala, Trevor Perrier, and Neha Kumar -- 17. Beyond Hashtags: Black Twitter and Building Solidarity across Borders / Kimberly McNair -- Part V: Notes From the Color of New Media -- 18. The Color of New Media Enters Trumplandia; 19. The Color of New Media Responds To UC Berkeley's "Free Speech Week".