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September 21, 2025Social Media + SocietyOpen Access

Black Twitter as “Master” Social Architects: Maintaining Online Community Boundaries Through the Production of Time and Place

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CMCynthia Mcleod

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Overview

This analysis reveals how black users maintain community boundaries, suggesting that their temporal practices challenge digital behavior norms.

Key Points

  • Black users blend historical and contemporary cultural experiences to connect and protect their community online.
  • Findings were drawn from an online ethnography revealing how users utilize temporal practices to resist outside influences.
  • This study applied critical technocultural discourse analysis to uncover users' boundary work against non-authentic accounts.
  • Observations highlight the role of platform features like retweets in supporting community memory and user agency.

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Cynthia Mcleod (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46ac231b076d99fa68362https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251374500
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