https://www.meredithdclark.com/mdcwebsitehome daily 1.0 2024-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1615957301682-7JBPIMQJE8MKKY79SU4E/Screen+Shot+2021-03-03+at+10.51.19+AM.png My Home on the Web - Check out my most recent work on the origins of so-called “Cancel Culture” Five-page article drawn from a chapter in my book about Black Twitter. https://www.meredithdclark.com/aboutmdc daily 0.75 2024-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1615950780513-7H5JYIS44DOP7UPB52B9/AA11915D-D4DE-4262-A818-E8617B2A5111.jpg About Founding Member of the Fivehead Gang. https://www.meredithdclark.com/bio-headshots daily 0.75 2022-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1619231793626-EEAANSF9HQZ7RIAIXESA/2018_Headshot_Clark_Offset_Landscape_Color.jpg Bio & Headshots Credit: Dare Kumolu/Kumolu Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1619232223872-H9UMLRFWCH6YKKDXUOSV/2018_MeredithClark_Headshot.jpeg Bio & Headshots Credit: Dare Kumolu/Kumolu Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1619232284350-1MXMS82CTYUV5QF61E09/2018_Headshot_Clark_Landscape_Profile_BW.jpg Bio & Headshots Credit: Dare Kumolu/Kumolu Studios https://www.meredithdclark.com/research daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://www.meredithdclark.com/research/powerandconsequences monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1619230935574-XRDMAVBI6IZYTO43BOZ4/jan-baborak-ZKOwF_J-3rw-unsplash.jpeg Research - Quantifying the power & consequences of social media protest Quantifying the Power and Consequences of Social Media Protest Freelon et al., 2016 https://www.meredithdclark.com/research/lessonsfrommckinney monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1619230068133-U1KVMAMUS5MD1HE90TW4/erin-hervey-mYfyZ1KbNho-unsplash.jpeg Research - Lessons from #McKinney: Social media and the Construction of Police Brutality - Lessons From #McKinney Social media and the Construction of Police Brutality https://www.meredithdclark.com/research/iftheygunnedmedown monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1619227180188-MMU37CV3TJSO5R5CCC6L/Photo+by+Derick+McKinney Research - #Iftheygunnedmedown: An analysis of mainstream & social media ... - #IfTheyGunnedMeDown An analysis of mainstream & social media in the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting death of Michael Brown ABSTRACT: Focusing on the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, this study examined the framing of mainstream newspaper coverage of social media activism in the aftermath of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. People of color primarily used the hashtag to draw attention to what they perceived as negative stereotypes perpetuated by the news media. The study employed textual analysis of news coverage combined with semistructured interviews with hashtag-protest participants. The analysis found that the mainstream media followed news production rituals by relying primarily on elite, established sources and generally ignoring the social media protestors’ voices. The social media protestors who used the hashtag said they used it to bypass the mainstream media, and this research indicates they may well have done so and possibly reached a younger generation that relies more on social media than legacy media. https://www.meredithdclark.com/research/whitefolksworkdigitalallyship monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://www.meredithdclark.com/research/remakingthesyllabus monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1616305042776-B97NDCTEXRCPDNO9Z9M7/nathan-dumlao-I99ck2MH2Tw-unsplash.jpg Research - Remaking the #Syllabus: Crowdsourcing Resistance Praxis as Critical Public Pedagogy - About the article ABSTRACT: Between 2014 and 2017, the creation of hashtag syllabi—bricolage iterations of reading lists created by or circulated among educators on Twitter—emerged as a direct response for teaching about three highly publicized incidents of racial violence in the United States. Educators used hashtags as a means of sharing resources with their networks to provide non-normative literatures from marginalized scholars for teaching to transgress in the wake of Mike Brown’s slaying in Ferguson, Missouri; the massacre of nine congregants at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; and the fatal car attack on anti-fascist protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia. Acting on Chakravartty et al.’s provocation to center scholars of color in course syllabi as a pedagogical strategy to disrupt the reification of white supremacy in communication and media studies, I consider the creation of three hashtag syllabi related to these events as a form of critical resistance praxis in the emerging framework of digital intersectionality theory. I present a brief textual analysis of the aforementioned syllabi, triangulated with data from online conversations linked to them via their hashtags and derivative works produced by their creators and users to map two social media-assisted strategies for doing critical public pedagogy. https://www.meredithdclark.com/research/mdcdragthemcancelculture monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605128d2ed7f1717c581ee5a/1616303198476-FUZOJBSVYGDCVY4PZ770/nsey-benajah-5_gku5Usbzk-unsplash.jpg Research - DRAG THEM: A brief etymology of so-called "cancel culture" - About the article ABSTRACT The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites, arguing that the application of useful anger by minoritized people and groups has been effectively harnessed in social media spaces as a strategy for networked framing of extant social problems. This strategy is challenged, however, by the dominant culture’s ability to narrativize the process of being “canceled” as a moral panic with the potential to upset the concept of a limited public sphere.