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As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.

All media are social -- Theorizing the media -- Who pays for it? -- In the hands of a few -- Big Brother knows you're watching -- The makers and the breakers -- Fear & loathing on cable news -- Doing gender and sexuality in media -- Unequal images in an unequal age -- Are we robots? -- Or are we rebels?

This is a critical dialogue between graduate student and activists in the discipline of sociology. Critical approaches to the essential question of critical race studies are discussed and evaluated in terms of their ability to develop a theory and praxis for changing the structural and cultural inequalities that constitute the enduring legacy of the colonial project and slavery. Conventional sociological methodologies as well as combative epistemologies and pedagogies, suffer from an inability to inform and be informed by real world movements for social justice and thus are limited in their applicability beyond the ivory tower.Through a Freirean critical dialogue the possibility for a human method of mobilization emerges that has the potential for aiding with the liberation struggles of all oppressed peoples. The authors hope that this dialogue will be taken up by other peoples in other places to further their quest for social justice.