Date of Award

Fall 12-21-2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Anthropology

First Advisor

Dr. Christina Zarcadoolas

Second Advisor

Dr. Jessie Daniels

Academic Program Adviser

Dr. Yukiko Koga

Abstract

Twitters efforts to silence pro-IS users has been largely unsuccessful. I apply discourse analysis techniques to better understand why that is. The findings demonstrate that Twitter’s account suspension campaign is outmatched by a community that now values account suspensions as a right of passage. I propose a new method.

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