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

Location:

Zoom

Event Description

Allissa V. Richardson is an award-winning journalism instructor and scholar who studies how marginalized communities use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism-especially in times of crisis. Her book explores the lives of 15 mobile journalist-activists who have documented the Black Lives Matter movement using only their smartphones and Twitter.

Meeting ID: 928 6491 1308
Passcode: 442201

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Contact:

Danny Jauregui djauregui@whittier.edu

Sponsoring Department:

This talk is hosted by the Art & Visual Studies Department as part of Professor Kate Albers' "History of Photography" course