Meredith D. Clark
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Racial Differences in Response to Chadwick Boseman’s Colorectal Cancer Death: Media Use as a Coping Tool for Parasocial Grief Open
The August 2020 death of Black actor Chadwick Boseman, at age 43 from colon cancer was a notable public event. Given Boseman’s popularity, particularly amongst Black audiences, and racial disparities in colorectal cancer rates, public resp…
Introduction: Thinking of a Black Digital Ethos Open
This special issue offers a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives from a network of Black scholars in sociology, technology, media studies and humanities living through economic, political, social, and technological paradigm shifts tha…
To tweet our own cause: A mixed-methods study of the online phenomenon "Black Twitter" Open
As the numbers of African-Americans with Internet access, particularly via smartphone, have grown, so have digital artifacts that point to evidence of a narrowing digital divide between Blacks and Whites in America. As Nakamura (2007) obse…
How Black Twitter and other social media communities interact with mainstream news Open
People have been forming communities using digital communication technologies since long before the web as we know it today. Social media are only the latest in a long series of digital forums that have enabled global conversations and con…
Lessons from #McKinney: Social Media and the Interactive Construction of Police Brutality Open
This article explores how users of three social media platforms interpreted the June 2015 incident in which a police officer attempted to apprehend an African-American girl at a pool party in McKinney, Texas.
Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest Open
The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its consequences directly. This study develops and measures thr…