African Americans and the Media

2009-10-12 Social Science

Author : Catherine Squires
Release : 2009-10-12
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book African Americans and the Media written by Catherine Squires. This book was released on 2009-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass media industries of the United States. This book provides readers with an interdisciplinary overview of the past, present, and future of African Americans in U.S. media and the ongoing project of gaining racial equality in media: a process which spans generations. Catherine Squires introduces the reader to the varied ways in which Black Americans have navigated cultural, political, and economic obstacles both to make their own media and to critique mainstream media. Synthesizing the work of social scientists, historians, cultural critics, as well as comments from audience members and media producers, African Americans and the Media gives readers a lively entry point to classic and contemporary studies of Black Americans and mass media. Across the chapters, readers follow African Americans’ struggles to harness the power of print, broadcasting, film, and digital media, through five main themes which are woven through the book: representation, circulation, innovation, audience and responsibility. Taking in examples as diverse as Blaxploitation films, the work of 20th Century black activist journalists such as Ida B. Wells and A. Philip Randolph, and popular television such as The Cosby Show, this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of media and communications and African American studies.

Chapter 11 Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States

2018

Author : Jeffrey Blevins
Release : 2018
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Download or read book Chapter 11 Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States written by Jeffrey Blevins. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions of people of the African diaspora, the interconnections of Black American and African-centered media, and the experiences of audiences and users across the African diaspora, positioning members of the Black and African Diaspora as subjects of their own narratives, active participants and creators. In so doing, this volume addresses issues of identity, culture, audiences, and global influence.

Cities Imagined

2018 History

Author : Walter Greason
Release : 2018
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cities Imagined written by Walter Greason. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose images are being juxtaposed? What information is being conveyed? Which aesthetics are being valued? - Frances Gateward and John Jennings, ""The Blacker the Ink"" ""Afrofuturism is moving [toward] a more applied, theoretical, critical, and transdisciplinary approach"" - Reynaldo Anderson, ""Afrofuturism 2.0"" ""What is dark matter?"" - Sheree R. Thomas, ""Dark Matter"" Cities Imagined symbolizes the dynamic relationship between real and imagined spaces, subjects, and objects across disciplines. Forged from lifetimes of academic work that balanced critical insight with constant creativity, Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason document, analyze, and synthesize multiple traditions of critical analysis and aesthetic performance. In tracing the history of culture, identity, and structures over the twentieth century, Cities Imagined provides a framework to rethink modern history. From the emergence of the Booker T. Washington's ""Tuskegee Universe"" in the late nineteenth century through the trans-dimensional character of the comic book city and transpatial power of the Black Lives Matter moment, Cities Imagined offers a sequence of templates that will guide scholars, activists, architects, and theorists through processes of metropolitan creation in pursuit of equal justice for all people. Chambliss and Greason move their readers from the dreams of Booker T. Washington, Anna Julia Cooper, and Martin Luther King, Jr. through the recognition of Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and Sonia Sotomayor as shapers of an uncharted future. How do dreams become real? The examination of spatial change though both literature and history provides a furnace and an anvil for the creation of Audre Lorde's new tools. Cities Imagined is the hammer we all need.

Out of Many

2023 Communication

Author : Brianna Savage
Release : 2023
Genre : Communication
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Download or read book Out of Many written by Brianna Savage. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to help fill the gap about the effect of social media on the Black African diaspora in the U.S. by researching how social media advertising affects consumer behavior within the Black co-cultures. Specifically, this study aims to look at how Twitter advertising affects the Black co-culture's intention to engage with the brand and intention to purchase the advertised product across diasporas. This study is an experimental research design that researches how language identified with the Black African diaspora in advertising used on Twitter affects the intention to click and purchase the advertised product. The findings indicated that when the Black African diaspora has more positive attitudes toward a Twitter ad they are more likely to engage with the sponsored ad. They are also more likely to purchase the sponsored product when their attitudes are highly positive toward a Twitter ad. Also, they are more likely to purchase the product when they engage with the advertisement. There were no significant differences found in the hypothesis that African American consumers who resonate with the AAVE style language will show higher positive attitudes toward the Twitter ad. Finally, the findings indicate that the hypothesis that the higher the ethnic identification of the audience with the culture, the higher the attitudes, engagement, and intention to purchase could only be partially supported.

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