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Article
Abstract
This research paper overlooks the disproportionate number of missing persons and violence towards Indigenous groups, particularly women. Communication research has pointed to mass media lacking coverage on missing or murdered cases of Indigenous people, contributing to invisibility of the issue and lack of attention to the problem. Individual efforts to increase sources of information have been utilized in social media to make up for where mass media lacks. Social media creators who look to raise awareness, mobilize grassroot actions, and expand community ties. Content analysis was used to analyze content in Instagram under hashtags relevant to #MMIW–Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Three major emergent themes were red hands/symbols, calls to action, and counterstory.
*note-Renu Pariyadath as faculty advisor
Recommended Citation
Cathcart, Sydney E. and Pariyadath, Renu
(2025)
"#MMIW on Instagram: Contemporary Representations of Missing Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People,"
University of South Carolina Upstate Student Research Journal: Vol. 19, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/uscusrj/vol19/iss1/3
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