Bearing Witness While Black African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism

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Contents: Cover -- Bearing Witness While Black -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1 Looking as Rebellion: The Concept of Black Witnessing -- 2 The Origins of Bearing Witness While Black -- 3 The New Protest #Journalism: Black Witnessing as Counternarrative -- Part II -- 4 #StayWoke: A Day in the Life of an Activist -- 5 #WorkWoke: The Movement as a Labor of Love -- 6 #BeforeYouWatch: Activist Reports From the Field -- Part III -- 7 Shooting Back: The Making of a Black Visual Public Sphere -- 8 #NoFilter: Exploring the Trauma of Black Witnessing; 9 Black Witnessing, Body Cams, and the Enduring Fight for the Whole Truth -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Modern black citizen journalists, armed with little more than smartphones and a speedy WIFI connection, are challenging longstanding narratives of race, power, and privilege in the United States. This book investigates how anti-police brutality activists leverage the affordances of mobile and social media to report original news within the contemporary social justice ""beat."" Through semi-structured interviews and a descriptive analysis of the activists' social media, Allissa V. Richardson investigates the journalistic roles that activists perform, the types of stories that they produce, and