The use of the hashtag #PrayFor social networking, turn into a universal response / tendency to terrorism / terror events around the world, but especially in the “West”. In 2017 alone, Europe saw fewer than 57 terrorist attacks. The suicide bombing of Manchester (United Kingdom) 2 years ago, on May 22, 2017, during the concert of pop singer Ariana Grande, with 22 people and over 59 years. was a reason for using the #PrayFor hashtag. This use can presumably connect billions of people worldwide and display social networking interactions.
Thedataminer.org team attended the VIII International Conference of Sociology and Social Work: The challenges of Democracy: Making Society in Times of Individualizationn held last November 22 in Coimbra, demonstrating how hashtag #PrayForManchester mobilized interactivity on Facebook and Instagram at the time of the tragedy.
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Silva, R., 2019. #PrayFor (insert tragedy here) Mapping Interactivity throughout the use of hashtags on Facebook and Instagram – the case of the Manchester Attack (22nd May 2017), in: VIII International Conference of Sociology and Social Work. Presented at the The challenges of Democracy: Making Society in Times of Individualizatio, Coimbra.
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