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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown: Can hashtag activism have a lasting impact?
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Aug 12, 2014
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown: Can hashtag activism have a lasting impact?
The media coverage of the police shooting of an unarmed eighteen year-old outside of St. Louis prompted an interesting phenomenon on Twitter.
Behind the #IfTheyGunnedMeDown hashtag is the question of which photo the media would seize upon, if the posters had a run-in with police
Behind the #IfTheyGunnedMeDown hashtag is the question of which photo the media would seize upon, if the posters had a run-in with police
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The media coverage of the police shooting of an unarmed eighteen year-old outside of St. Louis prompted an interesting phenomenon on Twitter.

On Saturday, an unarmed eighteen year-old named Michael Brown was shot by the police outside of St. Louis. The incident caused a huge reaction nationwide and the media coverage of it prompted an interesting phenomenon on Twitter.

Slate Magazine's Jamelle Bouie joined Take Two on Tuesday to talk about

and whether hashtag activism can have a lasting impact.