Social Justice Journalism

Social Justice Journalism
Title Social Justice Journalism PDF eBook
Author Linda J. Lumsden
Publisher AEJMC - Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Journalism and social justice
ISBN 9781433165061

Download Social Justice Journalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This cultural history seeks to deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist journalism by training the lens of social movement theory back on the nearly forgotten role of eight twentieth-century American social justice journals in effecting significant social change.

Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks

Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks
Title Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Blevins
Publisher
Pages 225
Release 2021-01-15
Genre
ISBN 9781947602847

Download Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful political groups. Jeffrey Layne Blevins and James Lee look at the ways in which social media conversations about race turn politically charged, and in many cases, ugly. Studies show that social media is an important venue for news and political information, while focusing national attention on racially involved issues. Perhaps less understood, however, is the effective quality of this discourse, and its connection to popular politics, especially when Twitter trolls and social media mobs go on the attack. Taking on prominent case studies from the past few years, including the Ferguson protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2016 presidential election, and the rise of fake news, this volume presents data visualization sets alongside careful scholarly analysis. The resulting volume provides new insight into social media, legacy news, and social justice.

People's Movements, People's Press

People's Movements, People's Press
Title People's Movements, People's Press PDF eBook
Author Bob Ostertag
Publisher Beacon Press
Pages 244
Release 2007-06-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780807061664

Download People's Movements, People's Press Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

America was born in an act of rebellion, and protest and dissent have been crucial to our democracy ever since. Along the way, movements for social justice have created a wide array of pamphlets, broadsides, newsletters, newspapers, and even glossy magazines. In People's Movements, People's Press, Bob Ostertag brings this hidden history to light, examining the publications of the abolitionist, woman suffrage, gay and lesbian, and environmental movements, as well as the underground GI press during the Vietnam War. This fascinating story takes us from the sparse, privately owned media environment of the nineteenth century to the corporate media saturation of the present. Within these publications, we find powerful debates about the direction of a movement; impassioned cries for rights and civil liberties; lonely voices reaching out to others after being alienated by the mainstream press and the unaccepting world around them; and demands that now seem surprisingly reasonable but were at one time quite revolutionary. With both plain language and rigorous scholarship, Ostertag tells the story not only of the publications but the many colorful characters who created them. The story of the social justice movement press is deeply intertwined with the story of the movements themselves. In fact, Ostertag shows how reliance on the printed word fundamentally shaped what we now know as social movements. People's Movements, People's Press, then, offers a new view—from the ground up—of social transformation in America and raises the question of how social movements will change as they move from print to the Internet as their primary means of communication. As large corporations take over every media outlet available, People's Movements, People's Press reminds us of the great value and historical importance of independent, activist-driven media.

Journalism and Jim Crow

Journalism and Jim Crow
Title Journalism and Jim Crow PDF eBook
Author Kathy Roberts Forde
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 534
Release 2021-12-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0252053044

Download Journalism and Jim Crow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize. White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press’s parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment. Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy. Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii

Literary Journalism and Social Justice

Literary Journalism and Social Justice
Title Literary Journalism and Social Justice PDF eBook
Author Robert Alexander
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 331
Release 2022-08-04
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3030894207

Download Literary Journalism and Social Justice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book examines the prominent place a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In the process, this volume focuses on the critical attitude the writers of this genre bring to their stories, the immersive reporting they use to gain detailed and intimate knowledge of their subjects, and the array of innovative rhetorical strategies through which they represent those encounters. The contributors explain how these strategies encourage readers to respond to injustices of class, race, indigeneity, gender, mobility, and access to knowledge. Together, they make the case that, throughout its history, literary journalism has proven uniquely well adapted to fusing facts with feeling in a way which makes it a compelling force for social change.

The Journalism Manifesto

The Journalism Manifesto
Title The Journalism Manifesto PDF eBook
Author Barbie Zelizer
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 75
Release 2021-11-11
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1509542655

Download The Journalism Manifesto Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Drawing on the collaborative expertise of three senior scholars, The Journalism Manifesto makes a powerful case for why journalism has become outdated and why it is in need of a long-overdue transformation. Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences, Zelizer, Boczkowski and Anderson reveal how these previously integral components of journalism have become outdated: Elites, the sources from which journalists draw much of their information and around whom they orient their coverage, have become dysfunctional; The relevance of norms, the cues by which journalists do newswork, has eroded so fundamentally that journalists are repeatedly entrenching themselves as negligible and out of sync; and because audiences have shattered beyond recognition, the correspondence between what journalists think of as news and what audiences care about can no longer be assumed. This authoritative manifesto argues that journalism has become decoupled from the dynamics of everyday life in contemporary society and outlines pathways for fixing this essential institution of democracy. It is a must-read for students, scholars and activists in the fields of journalism, media, policy, and political communication.

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene
Title Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth G. Dobbins
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 435
Release 2020-02-17
Genre Nature
ISBN 1793607613

Download Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the Anthropocene as a geological age shaped by human intervention implies a new understanding of the human context that influences the physical and biological sciences. Human existence continues to be affected by the physical and biological reality from which it evolved but, in turn, it affects that reality as well. This work addresses this paradox by bringing together the contributions of researchers from very different disciplines in conversation about the complex relationships between the physical/biological world and the human world to offer different perspectives and solutions in establishing social and environmental justice in the age of the Anthropocene.