Been writing about protest & crappy media coverage for a decade. The headlines and the outrage of day 1/week 1/ month 1 coverage doesn’t change…. Like… ever for status quo challenging human rights protests.
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Still writing about it! theconversation.com/5-years-afte...

5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed After protests over state violence, news coverage tends to focus on negative stories that can delegitimize dissent. Over time, that often yields to more nuance.

Media scholar Danielle K. Brown looks at how coverage of George Floyd’s murder 5 years ago tended to focus more on the violence of protestors, and less on the grievances about police violence – and how that has changed. buff.ly/cb5TMF2
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News influencers/content creators have been the talk of the town in journalism lately — buzz that’s been exclusively focused on social.
There’s more to news influencers than social though…

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📢📰 How is Kamala Harris represented in mainstream vs. Black media? @williamsfayne.bsky.social & @daniellekbrown.bsky.social delve into the nuanced coverage of her campaign, highlighting the differences in narratives and endorsements. https://bit.ly/4hVXdnD

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What up, JC!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽11/11 prayers came true on 11/12.

From the ’60s till now, TV news coverage of large-scale university protests doesn’t look so different While people rely less on TV for their daily news than they used to, it remains influential − and the TV storytelling about student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and more can shift opinions.

Curious about how TV news coverage of the widespread campus protests and police responses this spring differed from the coverage in the late 1960s? So were we! Overall there were lots of similarities in the structure of the reporting and the images featured 1/

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Peak unapproachable is me after a 16 hour flight to Australia.

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication, Group Identity, and Computational Methods

I'm hiring a postdoc with expertise in computational methods and group identities (e.g. race, gender, religion, nationality, etc.). Please share with anyone you think might be interested. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about except obviously for drake.

Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.

Many media outlets are paying a lot more attention to arrests than to the actual demands of protesters.

US media largely ignored campus protests until encampments (and police clearing of encampments) got going, fitting in with a general pattern, according to @daniellekbrown.bsky.social:

Shout out to the embedded, engaged, and diligent journalists across media spaces who often do critical work that falls outside dominate trends in national coverage.

Trying to fly again on bluesky. Been a minute. Sry abt that.

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Still from the never ending story of Artax dying in the swamp of sadness

A still of Artax and Atreyu from the neverending story. Happier times

Twitter/Bluesky

Y’all are trying to make “sky” fetch as slang for BlueSky users and i WILL NOT ALLOW IT

…these are my skeeters.

Goodbye tweety bird app 👋🏼
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAd_ZRgJTeA

Opinion | Making People Uncomfortable Can Now Get You Killed People who deem themselves judge, jury and executioner walk among us, and we have no real way of knowing when they will turn on us.

I wrote about the murder of Jordan Neely, scared men, and who gets to stand their ground www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/jorda...

My goal is to get as many marginalized people over here, especially Black people cause that’s my people. Keep the DMs (ON TWITTER) rolling!!! reminder people with disabilities DEFINITELY need to come in to help give feedback/make sure this app’s accessible !!!! Ty 💕🦋

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True auntie goals tho

I’d offer a solid wtf but it just makes me feel naïve…

Thanks fam 🔥

Please follow these ✨brilliant ✨Black professors of technology and society. More are on the way! ✨

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