Teaching Media Quarterly Volume 4 | Issue 1 Article 5 2016 #BlackLivesMa(er as A Case Study in the Politics of Digital Media: Algorithms, Hashtag Publics, and Organizing Protest Online Heather Woods University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hswoods@live.unc.edu James Alexander McVey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, jmcvey@live.unc.edu Follow this and additional works at: h<p://pubs.lib.umn.edu/tmq Teaching Media Quarterly is published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Recommended Citation Woods, Heather, and James A. McVey. "#BlackLivesMa<er as A Case Study in the Politics of Digital Media: Algorithms, Hashtag Publics, and Organizing Protest Online." Teaching Media Quarterly 4, no. 1 (2016). h<p://pubs.lib.umn.edu/tmq/vol4/iss1/5