Meredith Clark Associate Professor, Founding Director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change mer.clark@northeastern.edu Expertise Black Twitter, race in media Meredith Clark in the Press Rolling Stone ‘Black Twitter’ Shows How the Platform Reshaped Our Culture. Where Have Those Voices Gone Today? MySpace was deemed a “ghetto” as more Black users joined up, Meredith Clark, a Black Twitter researcher and professor of communications at Northeastern University, says in the docuseries, while Facebook felt akin to a “digital gated community.” Quickly, Twitter filled the virtual void. Neiman Journalism Lab “These dollars are not reaching BIPOC newsrooms”: Tracie Powell and Meredith Clark on funding inequities and local news This is an argument that Dr. Meredith Clark and Tracie Powell have been making for a long time. Clark is the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change, and Powell is CEO and founder of The Pivot Fund, which raises money for BIPOC-led news outlets. The challenges of accurately archiving Black Twitter NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with journalism and communication studies associate professor Meredith Clark of Northeastern University about her project “Archiving Black Twitter.” Nieman Journalism Lab “The world’s largest Black group chat”: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter But when Meredith D. Clark, associate professor at Northeastern University in the school of journalism and department of communication studies, began researching Black Twitter as a doctoral student over a decade ago, only two other people in academia were studying what she called the “dynamic phenomenon.” Yahoo! A brief history of ‘wokeness’ “It is a quick way to signal to others that whatever those people over there are saying is not real, not substantial: This is something that’s easily dismissed, you shouldn’t pay attention to it,” Meredith D. Clark, who is now a professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern […] Twitter Was the Ultimate Cancellation Machine Cancellation also emerged from a distinct culture on Twitter. The practice evolved from “callout” practices that were common on Black Twitter in the early 2010s, Meredith D. Clark, an associate professor at Northeastern University, wrote in a 2020 paper. Nieman Journalism Lab “We all we got”: How Black Twitter steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson’s death “We’ve relied on the connections that we have in Black communities to spread the word of issues that are of importance to us for centuries,” said Dr. Meredith Clark, an associate professor of journalism and communication studies at Northeastern University who researches Black Twitter and Black resistance online.
Rolling Stone ‘Black Twitter’ Shows How the Platform Reshaped Our Culture. Where Have Those Voices Gone Today? MySpace was deemed a “ghetto” as more Black users joined up, Meredith Clark, a Black Twitter researcher and professor of communications at Northeastern University, says in the docuseries, while Facebook felt akin to a “digital gated community.” Quickly, Twitter filled the virtual void.
Neiman Journalism Lab “These dollars are not reaching BIPOC newsrooms”: Tracie Powell and Meredith Clark on funding inequities and local news This is an argument that Dr. Meredith Clark and Tracie Powell have been making for a long time. Clark is the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change, and Powell is CEO and founder of The Pivot Fund, which raises money for BIPOC-led news outlets.
The challenges of accurately archiving Black Twitter NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with journalism and communication studies associate professor Meredith Clark of Northeastern University about her project “Archiving Black Twitter.”
Nieman Journalism Lab “The world’s largest Black group chat”: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter But when Meredith D. Clark, associate professor at Northeastern University in the school of journalism and department of communication studies, began researching Black Twitter as a doctoral student over a decade ago, only two other people in academia were studying what she called the “dynamic phenomenon.”
Yahoo! A brief history of ‘wokeness’ “It is a quick way to signal to others that whatever those people over there are saying is not real, not substantial: This is something that’s easily dismissed, you shouldn’t pay attention to it,” Meredith D. Clark, who is now a professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern […]
Twitter Was the Ultimate Cancellation Machine Cancellation also emerged from a distinct culture on Twitter. The practice evolved from “callout” practices that were common on Black Twitter in the early 2010s, Meredith D. Clark, an associate professor at Northeastern University, wrote in a 2020 paper.
Nieman Journalism Lab “We all we got”: How Black Twitter steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson’s death “We’ve relied on the connections that we have in Black communities to spread the word of issues that are of importance to us for centuries,” said Dr. Meredith Clark, an associate professor of journalism and communication studies at Northeastern University who researches Black Twitter and Black resistance online.