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#BlackDontCrack: a content analysis of the aging Black woman in social media
This paper examines how positive social media representations of aging Black female bodies problematize existing notions of aging as an almost uniformly negative phenomenon.
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Physician Racial Bias and Word Use during Racially Discordant Medical Interactions
Physician racial bias can negatively affect Black patients’ reactions to racially discordant medical interactions, suggesting that racial bias is manifested in physicians’ communication with their Black patients.
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On Racial Violence
Physician racial bias can negatively affect Black patients’ reactions to racially discordant medical interactions, suggesting that racial bias is manifested in physicians’ communication with their Black patients.
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A radical reckoning: a Black woman’s racial revenge in Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”
“Black Museum,” the final installment of season four of the original series Black Mirror, incorporates many of the episodes that have come before it, creating an apotheosis episode that critiques the technophilia of the series.
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Race and Gender in Electronic Media
Content, Context, Culture
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today.
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Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media
Ch 3. New Media & New Possibilities: The Online Engagement of Young Black Activists (Nathan Jamel Riemer)
Ch 13. Black Studies in Prime Time: Racial Expertise and the Framing of Cultural Authority (Seneca Vaught)
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Race, solidarity and dissent in the Trayvon Martin case: a critical analysis
Discourse surrounding the Trayvon Martin case spilled over to social media platforms with heated visual and textual exchanges. While supporters for Mr. Martin cried racial profiling, arguing for civil rights violation, others averred that Mr.
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Stay woke: The Black Lives Matter movement as a practical tool to develop critical voice
Courses: This unit activity is suited for upper-level college courses on persuasion, intercultural communication, diversity, leadership, social justice, civil discourse, argumentation, debate, and political communication.Objectives: After completing this unit, learners should be able to: improve the…
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Movements in Organizational Communication Research
Current Issues and Future Directions
Ch. 3 Organizing Power and Resistance
Ch. 8 Difference, Diversity, and Inclusion
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Race
Chapter 1: Representation: Stuart Hall and the “Politics of Signification”
Chapter 3: Cultivation Theory: Gerbner, Fear, Crime, and Cops
Chapter 11: Social Media: From Digital Divide to Empowerment
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Cyber racism: White supremacy online and the new attack on civil rights
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding.
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Here is something you can't understand: the suffocating whiteness of communication studies
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular.
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The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy
Ch 6. By Any Other Name: White-Supremacist Terrorism in the Trump Era (Katherine M. Bell)
7. The Hell That Black People Live: Trump’s Reports to Journalists on Urban Conditions (Carolyn Guniss)
11. Scapegoater-in-Chief: Racist Undertones of Donald Trump’s Rhetorical Repertoire (Stephen J. Heidt)
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Accidents, icons, and indexing: The dynamics of news coverage of police use of force
Journalism Norms and News Construction: Rules for Representing Politics
This study explores the construction of news about police use of force in the Los Angeles Times over a six‐year period culminating in the crisis generated by the Rodney King beating.
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The Journalism of Roy Wilkins and the Rise of Law-and-Order Rhetoric, 1964–1968
In late 1964, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins became the first African American newspaper columnist syndicated widely in the white, mainstream press. This study looks at how Wilkins used his new journalistic platform to engage in the emerging conservative discourse over law and order.
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Race/Gender/Class/Media
Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers
Race/Gender/Class/Media considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production. It brings together 53 readings—most are newly commissioned for this edition—by scholars representing a variety of social science and humanities disciplines.
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#Handsupdontshoot: connective images and ethical witnessing
In the years since Michael Brown’s death, the hashtag #HandsUpDontShoot has been criticized for supposedly misrepresenting forensic evidence as framed by the Department of Justice. However, an expressive pull has kept alive both the hashtag and the sentiment behind it.
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‘Ooh, eh eh … Just One Small Cap is Enough!’ Servants, Detergents, and their Prosthetic Significance
This article explores the potent entanglements of race and servitude in the historical drama of dirt and domesticity.
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Media Across the African Diaspora
Content, Audiences, and Influence
Ch 11. Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States (Jeffrey Blevins)
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I Am Not Your Negro
A Docalogue
As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film. James Baldwin’s writing is intensely relevant to contemporary politics and culture, and Peck’s strategies for representing him and conveying his work in I Am Not Your Negro (2016) raise important questions about how documentary can bring the work of a complex thinker like Baldwin to a broader public.
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Media Matters
Race & Gender in U.S. Politics
Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultural meaning is negotiated in American popular culture. Media Matters takes us to the heart of social inequality and the call for social justice by interrogating some of the most important issues of its time.
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‘The Birth of Black Consciousness on the Screen’?: The African American Historical Experience, Blaxploitation, and the Production and Reception of Sounder (1972)
The black historical film Sounder (1972) was a key feature of the heated debate over race representation in Hollywood cinema in the early 1970s.
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Among Cultures
The Challenge of Communication
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Using qualitative research articles to talk about gender and race inequities in health care
Using peer-reviewed articles, this activity informs students of experiences female-identifying patients encounter in health-care contexts.
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News of Baltimore
Race, Rage and the City
This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015.
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Media Effects
Advances in Theory and Research
16. Media Stereotypes: Content, Effects, and Theory (prominent African American contributor)
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Martin to Brown
The rise of the modern Black Lives Matter movement can be traced back to two key events, the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin and the 2014 death of Michael Brown.
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Whiteness is not contained
The emergence of COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, has sparked a wave of anti-Asian attacks around the world.
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Digital Ethics
Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression
9. Hateful Games: Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers and How to Stop Them
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The discourse of the US alt-right online – a case study of the Traditionalist Worker Party blog
The use of social media by extreme right groups and the self-proclaimed formation of the ‘alt-right’ in recent years have been linked to the rise in US white nationalism.
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Does Discrimination Breed Mistrust? Examining the Role of Mediated and Non-Mediated Discrimination Experiences in Medical Mistrust
Medical mistrust is associated with a decreased likelihood of engaging in various health behaviors, including health utilization and preventive screening. Despite calls for research to address medical mistrust, few studies have explicitly delved into antecedents to medical mistrust.
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Empire of Illusions: Film Censorship, Eugenics and Aboriginal Spectatorship in Australia’s Northern Territory 1928–1950
The rapid spread of cinema throughout the British colonies in the 1920s was regarded as a major threat to the stability of the empire. Following the lead of the British Colonial Office, the Australian federal government introduced the censorship of films specifically for Indigenous audiences.
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Creating a space to #SayHerName: Rhetorical stratification in the networked sphere
This essay examines #SayHerName as a case study to analyze how circulation of the hashtag both challenged women’s erasure from #BlackLivesMatter discourse and motivated activists to center the stories of Black women killed in police interactions.
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Social media affordances in the context of police transparency: An analysis of the first public archive of police body camera videos
As more police departments adopt body cameras (BCs), there is a hope that the devices will help usher in a new era of police accountability.
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Beyond Race and Ethnicity: Exploring the Effects of Ethnic Identity and Its Implications for Cancer Communication Efforts
Within the health communication literature there has been an increased focus on the use of cultural and identity-based message tailoring to enhance the effectiveness of messages and interventions, particularly among minority and underserved populations.
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Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks
For centuries Africans were captured and brought to America in bondage and forced to forge a new culture. The development of a Black culture gave rise to humor as a coping mechanism against the oppressive state they found themselves in.
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Bearing Witness While Black
Theorizing African American mobile journalism after Ferguson
Modern black citizen journalists have embraced the mobile phone as their storytelling tool of choice to produce paradigm-shifting displays of raw reportage that challenge long-standing narratives of race, power, and privilege in America.
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EVERYBODY'S GOT A LITTLE LIGHT UNDER THE SUN
Black luminosity and the visual culture of surveillance
This article examines the production of The Book of Negroes during the British evacuation of New York in 1783 and situates it as the first government-issued document for state regulated migration between the United States and Canada that explicitly links corporeal identifiers to the right to travel.
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Black queer womanhood matters: searching for the queer herstory of Black Lives Matter in television dramas
Although the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) was created by three Black women, two of whom identify as queer, mainstream representations of the movement often erase the founders’ identities.