Bearing Witness While Black

Richardson, Allissa V.

doi:10.1080/21670811.2016.1193818

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“…They learned that since 2012, the police have broadened social‐media monitoring technology that had been developed to investigate terrorism via big‐data algorithm analyses to surveil protesters more generally (Dencik, Hintz, & Carey, 2018). Such surveillance has led to arrests and other dangers (Richardson, 2020; Tufekci, 2018). And across regime types, mainstream news organizations resist surrendering their domination of the journalism field.…”

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Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

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Rodgers

2020

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews recent research on social media platforms as outlets of street protest reporting by activists, posing the question of whether such outlets constitute a cultural source for protest movements. Given the "many-tomany" dynamic that alternative journalism via social media offers in contrast to the "one-to-many" approach of traditional media, there are implications for incursions into more democratic, participatory cultures and structures. Existing literature indicates that user-generated content via social media potentially is known to supplant traditional journalism in protest situations due to advantages such as firsthand access. Further, research demonstrates that activist reporting supplements and integrates with traditional journalism, and that interdependence develops. We also review the boundary conditions that constrain the use of socialmedia platforms for protest reporting. 1 | INTRODUCTION In January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptian activists mesmerized the globe as they occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square, ultimately resulting in the resignation of Egypt's President Mubarak. This spectacle, and the accompanying domino pattern of "Arab Spring" (or "Arab Awakening") uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa exemplified the near ubiquity of global access to digital devices, the internet, and social media, allowing previously unparalleled speed and reach (Bossio, 2014, p. 22; Radi, 2017). In concert with other 21st-century movements such as #OccupyWallSt, #Blacklivesmatter, #MeToo, #hongkongprotests, #OccupyGezi, and #indignado, these activists purposed technology-assisted platforms to message organizing details, live-stream events, document police actions, disseminate protest music and art, host on-line debates, and more (Castells,

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Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

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Rodgers

2020

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“…Studying the outpouring of "black witnessing" following recent instances of police brutality in the United States, Richardson (2017) argues that black witnesses-firsthand witnesses who film police violence and secondhand witnesses who take action after seeing such witness videos-help create a long narrative of human rights violations. Using black Twitter as a news wire and addressing diverse black audiences, mobile black witnessing advocates for African American civil rights and commemorates the long history of atrocities.…”

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“…As the now thriving research on citizen witnessing has shown, digital platforms enable new forms of witnessing that are no longer tied to professional journalism's symbolic power (Mortensen, 2015;Richardson, 2017). The rhetoric of citizen or amateur witnessing may conceal the parallel development of the professionalization of bearing witness in the global media environment.…”

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Journalism and Witnessing

Pantti

2019

The Handbook of Journalism Studies

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In this dynamic context, I attempt to trace how the concept of witnessing has been defined in journalism and interdisciplinary scholarship and how witnessing has contributed to our understanding of journalism and its role in interpellating audiences as witnesses of significant events. This chapter focuses on the key issues that have preoccupied the scholarship examining witnessing and mass media: the construction of authority, authenticity and moral responsibility in different forms of witnessing acts. What are journalists doing when they purport to bear witness? How does the idea of witnessing relate to journalism's practices and norms? What is the role of eyewitness accounts in journalism's claims to truth? How are new digital technologies shaping witnessing as a cultural practice and political act? These are the questions that I attempt to answer in this chapter. In the next section, I introduce witnessing as a communicative act and discuss the role of witnessing in public culture drawing on the foundational contributions to witnessing literature, before discussing "bearing witness" and "eyewitnessing" in journalism. Then I discuss audiences as secondhand witnesses to mediated witness accounts and consider the role of new communication technologies in shaping contemporary rituals and politics of witnessing. Witnessing as a communicative act Research on the public act of witnessing began to thrive in the 1980s (e.g., Felman & Laub, 1992; Wieviorka, 1998). Although witness testimonies did not form a new genre, they burgeoned after the Second World War, in response to the Holocaust and subsequent atrocities and humanitarian disasters worldwide. The cultural prevalence of and wide interest in life narratives, individual experiences and emotions are discussed in Wieviorka's book The Era of Witness (1998). She pays particular attention to Holocaust testimonies and their impact on the public knowledge of these events in subsequent decades. Wieviorka (2006, p. 389) identifies the 1961 Eichmann trial in Jerusalem as the advent of the "era of [the] witness." As explained by Attorney General Gideon Hausner (as cited in Wieviorka, 2006, p. 390

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“…Esto es claramente mucho mejor que no tener acceso. Estudios de Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, llegaron a la conclusión de que el teléfono móvil desempeña un papel crucial en la forma en que las minorías éticas acceden a las noticias (Richardson, 2016), y en cómo se involucran en la vida política (Martin, 2015). Sin embargo, algunos han defendido que el consumo de noticias a través de dispositivos móviles ha ocasionado que las personas dediquen un tiempo limitado a las noticias, solo echándoles un ojo (Molyneux, 2017), en lugar de desarrollar un aprendizaje más profundo sobre las noticias y los asuntos públicos.…”

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“…A golpe de unos pocos clics, y a través de la conectividad a internet del dispositivo móvil, pueden enviar material de noticias a los medios de comunicación, publicar ellos mismos en páginas web, y lanzar contenido a redes sociales (ver, por ejemplo,. El uso combinado de dispositivos móviles y redes sociales como Twitter ha brindado a los ciudadanos los medios para producir, publicar y acceder a noticias relevantes para ellos Richardson (2017). analizar el surgimiento y la prevalencia del testimonio negro a través del móvil en Estados Unidos, una forma de periodismo digital producido y anhelado por los grupos maginados de la sociedad.…”

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¿Periodismo móvil o periodismo en la era de los móviles?

Westlund

2018

RAEIC

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¿Periodismo móvil o periodismo en la era de los móviles?Oscar Westlund -Oslo Metropolitan University, Volda University College, University of Gothenburg -oscar.westlund@oslomet.no ResumenLa cantidad de formas en las que usamos y confiamos en nuestros dispositivos móviles hoy en día es fascinante. No existe una gran reflexión sobre la dependencia tecnológica en los dispositivos móviles y la comunicación en la vida diaria. Esto es sorprendentemente diferente a lo que sucedía en los diez años previos a la llegada de los smartphones contemporáneos con pantallas táctiles. El acceso a las noticias es más sencillo que nunca, incluso con la abundancia de noticias gratis difundidas a través de plataformas digitales ubicuas y dispositivos móviles. La conexión entre los dispositivos móviles y la cobertura informativa se ha convertido en uno de los avances más importantes del periodismo, aunque la investigación sobre esta materia es todavía escasa. Empezando por un análisis de los orígenes y el papel actual del periodismo móvil, este artículo concluye abordando algunas cuestiones específicas relacionadas con la investigación sobre la producción, distribución y consumo de las noticias móviles. Existe la necesidad de desarrollar una mejor comprensión intercultural e interdisciplinar de la conexión entre los dispositivos móviles y el periodismo a través del uso de diversos conjuntos de métodos. Palabras claveComunicación móvil, periodismo móvil, dispositivos móviles, smartphones, producción informativa. Sumario 1. Introducción. 2. Mirada retrospectiva de la emergencia del periodismo y noticias para dispositivos móviles. 3. ¿Periodismo móvil? 4. Hacia una agenda de investigación. 5. Bibliografía.

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Bearing Witness While Black

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Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era

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