Bearing Witness While Black

Modern black citizen journalists, armed with little more than smartphones and a speedy WIFI connection, are challenging longstanding narratives of race, power, and privilege in the United States. This book investigates how anti-police brutality activists leverage the affordances of mobile and social media to report original news within the contemporary social justice "beat." Through semi-structured interviews and a descriptive analysis of the activists' social media, Allissa V. Richardson investigates the journalistic roles that activists perform, the types of stories that they produce, and the relationships that they have formed with their audiences.