I am so excited that my first trip abroad since the pandemic began is to the International Communication Association’s global conference in Paris, France this May. I am happy to share my latest research on Black peoples’ mobile journalism during the historic Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020. I also have plenty of research into the digital Black press’s use of social media to curb racialized misinformation during the pandemic’s early months. To the many scholars I have met on Zoom during these last few years of online-only gatherings, cheers to meeting you in Paris! Here is my schedule of papers I will be presenting. I will be on a few panels too. See you soon!

paper presentations

Reporting on Black Lives Matter: How the digital Black press used social media to cover the racial uprisings of 2020 (with Dr. Miya Williams Fayne).

#JusticeforGeorgeFloyd: How Instagram facilitated the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests (with Herbert Chang & Dr. Emilio Ferrara).

panels & roundtables

Roundtable on activism, journalism, and publics: Embracing and discarding theoretical frameworks.

Protest, news media and the globalization of the hierarchy of social struggle.

Digital witnessing: When images across borders are worth a thousand words (or less).