Keyword data search

This data set focuses on Social media and student leadership in South Africa, consisting of about 803 563 tweets from #RhodesMustFall to #FeesMustFall on Twitter.

The social media and student leadership in South Africa determines the role of social media activism and how it intersected with student leadership, how the use of social media reflected and/or impacted protests on the ground and the hashtags that were popular during the protests, with the following key questions of interest:

• What was the role of social media activism during the 2015/16 student movement?
• What was the relationship between social media activism and student leadership?
• How did social media use reflect and/or impact on protests on the ground?