Article Critiques
SayHerName
This article does a great job of contributing to the narrative about black women struggles in society. It also offers a neutral perspective that has historically been ignored by popular media. The article could use a few adjustments in regard to its citations and how the information is presented. Many of your statements have a factual basis but the lack of credible sources make the information presented less reliable. Sources such as Huffington Post and Ebony are great for giving background information, but in order to convince the audience about the validity of your argument it’d be better to use government issued statistics. Looking at the #SayHerName movement through the lens of social media and intersectionality was a great decision and was discussed thoroughly. The subtopic of #BlackLivesMatter may have been overstated a little in the article. Maybe removing some of the detail in the opening and keeping it for the body paragraph would help with that problem. I would rate this article a B following the guidelines set by Wikipedia because it has a lot of good information but would need more to satisfy a researcher needs.
Blackout
I would rate this article a Start because it still needs a lot more information. The sources used in this article are not very credible and a lot of them are not opening on my browser. It may be hard to find more reliable sources due to the nature of this topic relies heavily on social media. There are not many credible cites that offer information on hashtags, so maybe sites such as Buzzfeed and Tumblr could be used as long as they are fact checked. I think the article could talk more about how #BlackoutDay impacted users and how it was working to fight against a broader issue than just not seeing positive images of Black people on social media. Everything that was presented related to the article, but there just wasn’t enough information.
Blackout
I'd like to write on the Blackout page and talk about why there was a need for this day in terms of beauty standards especially for Black women and girls. I'd like to expand on how these days give black children/teenagers a positive image to associate their Blackness with. There are not many positive images of Black adults on social media for teenagers to look up to. If there are those images then those people are most likely entertainers or athletes. Blackout day allows everyday Black people to be celebrated and gives teenagers a realistic look at Black beauty outside of manufactured beauty standards in both the Black and nonblack communities. I would like to focus on these topics above while describing the ethical need for hashtags such as Blackoutday.
Bibliography
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/11/black-history-black-women/23266115/
http://www2.ohlone.edu/org/library/CherishGreen.pdf
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_6
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http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/prba/perspectives/winter2000/cwatkins.pdf
Rough Draft
In addition, he noticed that when black people were depicted it was usually in a negative light. [Research has shown that Black images in the media adversely affect how members of the Black community view themselves[1]. These harmful images are not only seen by the Black community, but by everyone who has access to a media outlet. Although images of Black people have increased in mass media, those images have been disproportionally harmful due to their violent and crime related content[2]. Generally, if Black people are not being depicted as criminals, they are represented as entertainers such as athletes or musicians[2]. Having these two polar identities of a lawless individual and highly adored star leaves a spectrum of people in the Black community unrepresented. While associating Blacks with athleticism is not harmful in itself, it becomes harmful when that is one of the only thing Blacks are associate with. This reality led to an ethical need for positive and relatable images of the black community on platforms like social media. Concerned about these issues Green decided to gain feedback on his idea by going on Tumblr and through those interactions he met Marissa Sebastian, who came up with the name behind the movement and later on became the PR and CEO of the movement, and Tumblr user V. Matthew-King Yarde (known as Nukrik on social media) the creator behind the various logos for the event.
The need for
- ^ Fujioka, Yuki (2005). "Black Media Images as a Perceived Threat to African American Ethnic Identity: Coping Responses, Perceived Public Perception, and Attitudes Towards Affirmative Action". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 49 (4): 450–467. doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4904_6. S2CID 145591600.
- ^ a b Watkins, S. Craig. "Black Youth and Mass Media: Current Research and Emerging Questions" (PDF). Research Center for Group Dynamics. Retrieved April 18 2017.
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