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Research Talk Citations (2024)

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Assemblage philosophy

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

Buchanan, I. (2017). Assemblage theory, or, the future of an illusion. Deleuze Studies, 11(3), 457–474. https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2017.0276

Buchanan, I. (2021)AssemblageTheoryandMethod,BloomsburyAcademic,Bloomsbury-

Publishing, Inc., London, UK.

Stephens, L. (2023). What does community do? Reconsidering community action on the Toronto Islands using assemblage theory. Community Development Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad014

Narrative assemblages

Korina M. Jocson kjocson@wustl.edu (2012) Youth media as narrative assemblage: examining new literacies at an urban high school, Pedagogies: An International Journal, 7:4, 298-316, DOI: 10.1080/1554480X.2012.715735

Racializing assemblages

Weheliye, A. G. (2014). Habeas viscus: racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories of the human. Durham: Duke University.

Cinematic assemblages

Rizzo, T. (2012). Deleuze and Film: A Feminist Introduction. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB14354410

Art assemblages

Narrative through assemblage ⋆ Kimberly Tucker. (2017, December 7). Kimberly Tucker. https://www.kimberlytucker.ca/portfolio/narrative-through-assemblage/

Video Links:

DRY BONES Trailer

The Black Elyria Project Video Series

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What To Say To Kids Resources (2022)

Welcome!

Thanks for visiting and participating in What To Say To Kids: A Guided Workshop for Adults in the Lives of Young People During Uncertain Times (whew, that’s mouthful!). Below are references from the presentation, along with resources, handouts, and activities. To access the PDF handouts and activities, please use the special code provided during the presentation.

WTSTK Newsletter Coming October 2022!

Good news! I’m launching a What To Say To Kids (WTSTK) newsletter in October that will include more research, tips, and suggestions to help adults support young people as they navigate their mediated lives. Sign up here:

WTSTK Resources

Media Tools

How To Make a Family Media Use Plan (from the American Academy of Pediatrics).
Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Online (U.S. Department of Homeland Security): [PDF]
Mobile Apps. Here are some mobile apps that have been mentioned in research studies I reviewed for this presentation. I’m sharing these with you in the spirit of providing technology as support, rather than as surveillance of our young people. . Note: Some apps have been discontinued like Cerburus, which shut down a few years ago for violating terms of service. Keep this in mind as you reference these mobile apps: Technologies are not neutral, nor are they a substitution for meaningful connections with our young people. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-parental-control-apps,review-2258.html
NBC Nightly News For Kids: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightlykids
The Trevor Project (24/7 crisis support services for LGBTQIA youth): https://www.thetrevorproject.org
Today Explained, to Kids: https://www.vox.com/today-explained-to-kids
YouTube Kids: https://www.youtubekids.com

WTSTK Handouts and Activities

To access PDFs, click here and use the special code provided during the presentation.

Write a Personal Letter to a Young Person
Tips for Adults Supporting Kids Consuming Scary News
FAQs
Proactive Guide to Foster Connection, Support, and Critical Literacy

References

Below includes a list of research and reporting cited in the presentation.

Academic and Government Publications

Auxier, B., Anderson, M., Perrin, A. and Turner, E. (July 28, 2020). Parenting in the age of screens. Pew Internet Research report. Retrieved from https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/07/28/parenting-children-in-the-age-of-screens/
Ebbinkhuijsen, M., Bevelander, K.E., Buijzen, M., and Kleemans, M. (2021).“Children’s emotions after exposure to news: Investigating chat conversations with peers as a coping strategy,” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50: 1424-1436.
Edgerly, S., Thorson, K., and Bode, L. (2018). “Do parents still model news consumption? Socializing news use among adolescents in a multi-device world,” ( New Media & Society, 20(4): 1263–1281.
Gennaro, S. and Miller, B. (2021). Young people and social media: Contemporary children’s digital culture. Vernon Art and Science Inc.
Madden, M. Lenhart, A, and Fontaine, C. (March 1, 2017). How youth navigate the news landscape. Data & Society report. Retrieved from https://datasociety.net/library/how-youth-navigate-the-news-landscape/ [PDF].

News and Trade Publications

An Out Teen in the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ State (September 2022). What Next Podcast.
Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World by Arthur C. Brooks (September 2022). The Atlantic.
Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis (August, 2022). The Daily Podcast.
Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World by Ana Homayoun (2017).
Teens in Distress are Swamping Pediatricians by Matt Richter (May 2022). The New York Times.
The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut (September 2022). What Next TBD Podcast.
The DeSantis Ally on the School Board (September 2022). What Next Podcast.

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Documenting Black Lives: Multimodal Approaches to 'Black Witnessing'

Welcome!

Below is a list of definitions, references and readings, and recap survey from today’s lecture:

CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS

Ethnography: Ethnography describes a stance of inquiry that seeks to understand how culture works. Ethnography is a way of seeing that encourages close examination of phenomenon in place and of time, beginning with an orientation toward how and what we notice (Wolcott, 2008). As a domain of methodological inquiry, ethnography describes both a product of witnessing encounters and interactions and an intricate process of sitting with participants in situ while engaging cultures as-are overtime.

Virtual Ethnography is a research approach for exploring the social interactions that take place in virtual environments. These interactions often take place on the internet in sites such as newsgroups, chat rooms, and web-based discussion forums (Given, 2008; Hine, 2000) source

Digital Ethnography explores the impacts of new media on human interaction (Wesch).

Hashtag Ethnography is “concerned with the ontological implications of digital practices” (Bonilla & Rosa, 2015).

Hashtag Archiving “is a process of capturing and preserving social media data assigned to the visual (#) and nonvisual (U + 0023) dimensions of code that also requires interpretive analysis and collaboration” (Conley, 2021).

Multimodality is an approach for describing movement across texts, modes, and spaces, and how they–as resources enter into (the construction of) meaning. Here, multimodality is a concept for thinking beyond language to include all modes as socially shaped resources that can be presented through a range of media. Multimodal practices and processes using various computing and media tools offer different ways to orient oneself to content and data.

Citizen Journalism “refers to the reporting of news events by people without journalism training. These non-professionals use the Internet and social media to spread information. Members of the public report about news that is ignored by mainstream media, which includes newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters, or by media outlets under the government's control. The term was coined in 2000.” (Kivak, 2022)

Transmedia Journalism is characterized by “the involvement of (1) multiple media platforms, (2) content expansion (as opposed to the repetition of the same message across multiple platforms), and (3) audience engagement” (Gambarato & Tárcia, p. 1386).

Media Witnessing - “refers simultaneously to [...] witnessing in media, witnessing by media, and witnessing through media” (quoted in Richardson, p. 5).

Black Witnessing “(1) assumes an investigative editorial stance to advocate for African American civil rights; (2) co-opts racialized onlines spaces to serve as its ad-hoc news distribution services; and (3) relies on interlocking black public spheres, which are endowed with varying levels of political agency, to engage diverse audiences” (Richardson, 2020, p. 7).

Ethics of Care - “Originally focused on the private and intimate spheres of life, the ethics of care has evolved into a philosophical inquiry, political theory and vision of advocacy aimed at a broader understanding of and public support for caregiving activities within a network of social relations. It assumes that there is both significance to the relation- ships between caregivers and care-receivers and general interest in all human relationships in a wide range of contexts, public or private” (An & Witt, 2022, Ethics of care in documentary filmmaking since 1968).

Immediations (in documentary film) describes “tropes that generate a sensation of emergency around endangered humanity–a sensation that makes us feel ‘nothing else matters,’ especially when these tropes are employed directly by disenfranchised subjects” (Rangan, Story & Sarlin, 2018).

REFERENCES & READINGS:

An, G. & Witt, C. (2022). “Ethics of care in documentary filmmaking since 1968”. French Screen Studies, 22 (1): 1-5.

Bonilla, Y. & Jonathan R. (2015). “#Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States,” American Ethnologist 42: 4-17.
Conley, T.L. (2021). Hashtag archiving. Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Agostinho, D., D'Ignazio, C., Ring, A., Thylstrup, N.B., and Veel, K. (Eds). MIT Press.
Gambarato, R.R. and Tárcia, L.P.T. (2017).Transmedia Strategies in Journalism, Journalism Studies, 18(11), pp. 1381-1399.
Given, L. M. (2008). The SAGE encyclopedia of qualitative research methods (Vols. 1-0). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412963909
Hine, C. (2000). Virtual ethnography. Sage Publications.
Kivak R. (2022). “Citizen journalism.” Salem Press Encyclopedia. Accessed April 6, 2022. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.montclair.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=119214038&site=eds-live&scope=site
Kress, G. (2010). Multimodality: A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. Routledge.
McFadden, S. (2021). What giving a Pulitzer Prize for filming George Floyd's murder to Darnella Frazier really means. NBC News.
Pooja R., Story B, & Paige Sarlin. (2018). “Humanitarian Ethics and Documentary Politics” Camera Obscura 98, Volume 33(2); 1-12.
Pryluck, C. (1976). Ultimately we are all outsiders: The ethics of documentary filming. In A. Rosenthal (Ed.), New challenges for documentary (pp. 255–268). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Rangan, P. (2017). Immediations: The humanitarian impulse in documentary. Duke University Press.
Richardson, A. (2020). Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism. Oxford University Press.
Sanders, W. (2010). “Documentary Filmmaking and Ethics: Concepts, Responsibilities, and the Need for Empirical Research.” Mass Communication and Society, 13:528–553.
Squires, C. (2022). What happened to the witnesses. NY Mag.
Wolcott, H. F. (2008). Ethnography: A way of seeing. Oxford, England: AltaMira Press.
“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 8, 2022, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/12555.