Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities

ISBN-13: 9781108412322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str.

Sue Robinson

Opis

Tracks power, privilege, and processes of community trust building in digitized media ecologies, focusing on public dialogues about racial inequality.

Recenzje

'Everyone may get to speak in the digital age, but who gets to be heard, and why? Sue Robinson's masterful account offers an essential answer. This book reveals not only the emerging nature of media ecologies in US local communities, as public conversation moves online via social media, but it also shows how power and privilege complicate opportunities for marginalized voices, particularly on key social issues of race and education. For scholars, she offers a grand theoretical view of media ecology, field theory, and journalism studies - a window onto information networks as well as structural impediments. For journalists, activists, and community members, she offers both a warning and a way forward - a compelling tale of how to rewire communication for the future of our communities.' Seth C. Lewis, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon

Spis treści

Part I: 1. Introduction: a plea for progressives to 'stay in the room'; 2. Networked media ecologies; 3. Power, trust and authority in a local information flow; Part II: 4. Obstacles to public discourse about race; 5. Legitimation strategies in public discourse about race; 6. Outcomes and opportunities in community-trust building.