Computation + Journalism Confab: Exciting, Disappointing and Confusing
Last week's Symposium on Computation & Journalism left me excited, disappointed and confused. It was hard not to be excited listening to all the technologists talking about the latest advances that...
View ArticleEarly Adapters Don't Conform to Conventional Use
At a recent meeting, a representative from Verizon and a former BET executive were discussing the seeming contradiction between the fact that African American males were early adapters of mobile...
View ArticleOur Hidden Biases Reflected in Our Work
In a recent post Lauren Williams editor of the black interest blog Stereohyped, wrote about the case of a black man accused of killing a white police officer in New Hampshire. In defense of the...
View ArticleSean Bell Illustrates Lines that Divide Us
Blaring red headlines on the Drudge Report announced to the world that the three New York City Police who shot Sean Bell 50 times, killing him, were found not guilty. Drudge, with his right wing...
View ArticleElection Day Could Be Our Own Pangia Day
When the filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED), her wish was to create one day where people across the world gathered at the same time to watch films produced by...
View ArticleGlimpsing the Worlds of Neighbors Online
Over at TheRoot.com, Kim McLarin points out the ridiculousness behind the rumor that floating "out there" exists a tape of Michelle Obama using the term "whitey." McLarin does not base her argument on...
View ArticleHow Different Media View Racial Controversies
No matter the medium, the subjects were the same. Jesse Jackson made some rather unwise remarks about Barack Obama and the New Yorker published a satirical depiction of the Obamas that many thought...
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Meet the Editor Behind Sterohyped
A little more than a year ago, when Jossip Initiatives launched Stereohyped, it tapped former print journalists Lauren Williams to be the editor for the "black interest" site, which boasts the tag line...
View ArticleBloggers Demonstrate the Difference Diversity Makes
Two days after the election both UNITY and the National Association of Black Journalists sent out open letters urging the media to redouble their efforts to diversify staffs in the aftermath of the...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates, from Politics to Poetry
Go to Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog and you don't know if you're going to find a post on politics, poetry, the NFL or the world of videogames. A journalist who has worked at Time Magazine and the Village...
View ArticleWhen is a Riot a Riot?
By now almost everyone knows that a group of demonstrators protesting against the killing of a young father by a transit officer splintered off and began a wave of destruction in downtown Oakland....
View ArticleAs Newspapers Implode, Diverse Voices Move Online
In a few weeks the American Society of Newspaper Editors will release its annual census. The census, created to capture an accurate picture of the industry's diversity, will also tell us how many jobs...
View ArticleCell Phone Video Makes the Difference in Oscar Grant case
In the end, it may be the cell phone that makes the difference in Oscar Grant's death. Without it, it's likely that 22-year old father would have been just another anonymous black man who ended up dead...
View ArticleReflections on a Facebook Birthday
This year for my birthday I got three calls. Two people sent cards. And I don't think I ever received so much attention in my life. I have to say, it was fabulous turning 51 years old on Facebook. The...
View ArticleMeet Danielle Belton, the Woman Behind the Black Snob
From pop culture and politics to the personal, Danielle Belton's The Black Snob covers a lot of ground. During a recent week, Belton weighed in on everything from Mormons comparing themselves to...
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