The New Protest #Journalism

Richardson, Allissa V.

doi:10.1093/oso/9780190935528.003.0003

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“…This is an opportunity to investigate how mobile communication shapes these practices. Richardson (2020), for example, explicitly demonstrates the important ways that mobile phones have helped to enact a kind of protest journalism and changed the way that African Americans bear witness to racial inequities in the United States. We need more mobile communication research, like Richardson's, which specifically explores the role of mobile phones in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities.…”

Section: Mobile Communication Research Needs To Be Inclusive Of Adapt...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research

Cumiskey

Humphreys

2023

New Media & Society

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Through integrating the research featured in this issue, this article describes generative areas for future research and the means to advance the impact of our field. Reflective practices related to field building and knowledge access for which Rich Ling helped to lay the groundwork are highlighted. Ling’s work in mobile media and telecommunications has influenced the theoretical, methodological, and empirical opportunities for mobile communication research. Four themes for future mobile communication research have emerged: social, seamless, just, and open. These themes align with the work featured in this issue and with Ling’s promotion of practices that enhance our field to develop relevancy, integrity, and ecological validity. This article places special focus on global and social justice as leading to a better understanding of mobile communication in the world.

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Section: Mobile Communication Research Needs To Be Inclusive Of Adapt...mentioning

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Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research

Cumiskey

Humphreys

2023

New Media & Society

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“…The political impact of shaky smartphone videos that bear witness has been extensively discussed, particularly in relation to political protests such as Occupy Wall Street (Brucato, 2016), and “Black witnessing” (Richardson, 2020: 114; Stern, 2020). Smartphone videos of undocumented migrants crossing borders have a similar political potential.…”

Section: Witnessing the Unseenmentioning

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Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration

Bayramoğlu

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores how smartphone videos produced by migrants during border crossings challenge Eurocentric visualizations of borders. Implementing video analysis and iconographic interpretation, I explore three interrelated aspects of the smartphone videos: (1) By circulating videos via digital platforms, migrants create a countervisuality of border crossing that destabilizes the visual politics that shape current border regimes. (2) Unlike journalistic, humanitarian, or surveillance-oriented visual images produced from above, from a safe distance, from rescue or patrol ships, migrants’ smartphone footage puts their own narratives at the center of visualization. (3) Whereas Eurocentric visualizations of migration and borders aim to elicit affects and emotions such as pity, empathy, fear, or panic, migrants’ smartphone videos depict emotions such as joy and happiness after successful border crossings. These affective visualizations of individual migration stories confound binary representations of migrants as either victims or invaders. I argue that the shaky smartphone videos with their wandering focus and disordered mode of vision create a productive vantage point for seeing and sensing a world that is unimaginable for the normative, focused lens that structures views projected by journalism, humanitarian appeals, political mobilization, and surveillance technologies.

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“…Resulting memes provide fodder for trans-platform conversations about the lived experience of oppression—generating the hashtags: #livingwhileBlack #workingwhileBlack, and a slew of others referencing distinct and recent racialized incidents in which Black citizens were casually criminalized while engaging in lawful leisurely activities. In turn, these conversations have increased discourse, adding fuel to the BLM movement (Carney, 2016; Lee, 2018; Mohdin, 2018; Richardson, 2020). These memes demonstrate the explicit creation of counternarratives by circulating imagery that subverts intended White supremacist ideology and rejects positioning as Black docile bodies, suggesting that Black memes matter in the struggle against racial injustice.…”

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Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen

Williams

2020

Social Media + Society

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“BBQ Becky” and “Karen” memes reference real-world incidents in which Black individuals were harassed by White women in public spaces. In what I term the BBQ Becky meme genre, Black meme creators use humor, satire, and strategic positioning to perform a set of interrelated social commentaries on the behavior of White women. By conducting a visual Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) of BBQ Becky memes, I argue that Becky and Karen memes are a cultural critique of White surveillance and White racial dominance. I find that memes in the BBQ Becky meme genre call attention to, and reject, White women’s surveillance and regulation of Black bodies in public spaces—making an important connection between racialized surveillance of the past and contemporary acts of “casual” racism. This meme genre also disrupts White supremacist logics and performative racial ignorance by framing Karens and Beckys as racist—not just disgruntled or entitled. Finally, in a subversion and reversal of power dynamics, Karen and BBQ Becky memes police White supremacy and explicitly call for consequences, providing Black communities with a form of agency. Hence, I conclude that Black memes matter in the struggle for racial equity.

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The New Protest #Journalism

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research

Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research

Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration

Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen

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