Expanding Television’s Cultural Forum in the Digital Era: Prime Time Television, Twitter, and Black Lives Matter

Bernabo, Laurena

doi:10.1080/08838151.2019.1566862

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“…Because of this, social media activism has expanded immensely, and many social issues have since been brought to the forefront. For example, in 2013 the Black Lives Matter movement began on social media as a campaign for the African American community, fighting against violence towards African‐Americans and systemic racism (Bernabo, 2019). Similarly, the Arab Spring, beginning in Tunisia in 2010, was a progression of anti‐government protests and uprisings that quickly spread farther across North Africa and the Middle East through social media (McDonald, 2019; Stepanova, 2011).…”

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Twitter as a tool for social movement: An analysis of feminist activism on social media communities

Turki

Izaguirre

et al. 2020

Journal Community Psychology

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In recent years, social media has been widely used as a tool for feminist social movements, addressing social problems such as sexual assault traumatization. This research aims at understanding how social media users utilized Twitter to describe traumatic sexual assault experiences and reasons victims chose not to disclose their experiences (Study 1), and how users became a part of the digital activism (i.e., social media movement against sexual assault) to increase social actions (Study 2). Tweets using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport and #MeToo were extracted. Thematic analyses were used to analyze tweets across the two studies. Results from Study 1 revealed that social media victims who self‐disclosed their victimization stories often reported having serious psychological impacts, a sense of helplessness, and issues with the police. Study 2 further uncovered that social media users engaged in hashtag activism through discussing views on relevant political and social issues, sharing resources to help sexual assault victims, and promoting social actions (e.g., protests, voting).

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Twitter as a tool for social movement: An analysis of feminist activism on social media communities

Turki

Izaguirre

et al. 2020

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Our findings suggest that the pictures posted or shared by the citizens/Twitter, humanized the protestors as opposed to the photographs used in the websites by the mainstream media. It could be argued that social media (Twitter) is operated by individuals, who control their beliefs by their own perception, and post what they think are right for them (Bernabo, 2019). On the other hand, the findings seem to suggest that the mainstream media cannot operate emotionally and, in most cases, fail to humanize issues like BLM protests due to news values and organizational policies.…”

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“…In the digital age, visual rhetoric permeates all platforms, including broadcast and electronic media. As most scholars have argued, social media has expanded the broadcast and electronic media cultural forum models by allowing citizens to speak current affairs that shape the news content (Bernabo, 2019). Berger (2017) and Rodriguez and Dimitrova (2011) attribute the problem to the tenets of framing theories who continue to analyze texts while ignoring images or photographs.…”

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Visual Representation of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: Comparing US Mainstream Media Images to Citizens’ Social Media Postings

Bhowmik

Gondwe

2022

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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This study set out to examine how the US broadcast media visually presented the 2020 Black Lives Matter. We compared news content collected from mainstream websites to those generated by citizen journalists and posted on Twitter. The purpose was to examine whether the two shared common narratives in their visual representation of the protestors. Through visual rhetoric frames, our findings suggest that citizen journalists' picture narratives were humanistic and presented women and children as major players in the protests. On the other hand, visual rhetoric in the US media sites were characterized by narratives of violence, malefocused, and lacking racial diversity.

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“…Selva (2016) points out that social television scholars rely too often on quantitative content analysis which fails to adequately describe how social television cultivates shared meaning in public spheres. By contrast, qualitative content analysis has proven useful for building on theoretical frameworks and previous research to interpret textual data including television and tweets (Bernabo 2019).…”

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“…Will is an upper-middle class white man in his thirties, Miggy is a financially precarious Korean American man in his early twenties, and Douglas is an upper-class white man around 60 years old. Though viewers have long discussed televisual representations, Twitter's function as an extension of television's cultural forum (Bernabo 2019) allows viewers to analyze episode content and discuss the ways that long-marginalized single fathers are publicly presented and made intelligible. We used inductive qualitative content analysis to discover themes among viewers' tweets in response to Will, Miggy, and Douglas.…”

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So, You Think You Can Parent: Twitter Users’ Responses to Single Father Tropes in Television’s Single Parents

Bernabo

Turchi

2023

Men and Masculinities

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As the U.S. single-father population expands, we explore how fans of Single Parents (ABC, 2018–2020) responded to its three single-father characters, each of whom evoke a distinct trope. Viewers use Twitter to engage television programs, and so their tweets provide insight into societal expectations surrounding evolving gendered parenting norms. Using qualitative content analysis, we analyze viewers’ tweets ( N = 834) and explore the ways viewers addressed these characters’ relationships with children, with their fellow single parents, and with romantic partners. Fans celebrated the new millennial approach to fatherhood and challenged the traditional trope of “inept father,” yet hoped the single fathers would re-couple and therefore cease to be single parents. We conclude that Single Parents fans embraced modern, expanding cultural norms for fathers and caregiving while ultimately demonstrating a preference for two-parent households.

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Expanding Television’s Cultural Forum in the Digital Era: Prime Time Television, Twitter, and Black Lives Matter

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Twitter as a tool for social movement: An analysis of feminist activism on social media communities

Twitter as a tool for social movement: An analysis of feminist activism on social media communities

Visual Representation of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: Comparing US Mainstream Media Images to Citizens’ Social Media Postings

So, You Think You Can Parent: Twitter Users’ Responses to Single Father Tropes in Television’s Single Parents

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