Black witnessing by Sean McKeown https://padlet.com/smckeown8/hdfxbjlpgp0mzg4l en-us 2024-02-12 09:47:17 UTC 2025-02-17 12:52:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Time Line https://padlet.com/smckeown8/hdfxbjlpgp0mzg4l/wish/3331323756 1850s – Frederick Douglass

Used newspapers and speeches to expose slavery’s brutality.

1955 – Emmett Till

Jet Magazine published his open-casket photos, shocking the nation.

1960s – Civil Rights & TV

Footage of police brutality (Birmingham, Selma) helped push change.

1991 – Rodney King

Beating caught on home video. Officers acquitted. L.A. riots followed.

2012 – Trayvon Martin & #BLM

Unarmed Black teen killed. Social media ignites #BlackLivesMatter.

2014 – Eric Garner & Michael Brown

“I can’t breathe” caught on video. Ferguson protests explode.

2020 – George Floyd

Killing filmed. Video sparks worldwide protests.

]]> 2025-02-17 12:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/smckeown8/hdfxbjlpgp0mzg4l/wish/3331323756 How Social Media Became a Space for Black Witnessing (Advantage) https://padlet.com/smckeown8/hdfxbjlpgp0mzg4l/wish/3331329882 Record & Share Fast: Phones capture injustice. Videos go viral. No waiting for the news.

#Hashtags = Protest: #BlackLivesMatter turns posts into movements. No one gets erased.

Action Happens: Petitions, donations, protests—all organized online. Words turn to change.

Telling Our Own Stories: No media spin. Just raw truth, straight from the source.


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  • Slave narrative -> disad: heavily edited through publisher/ ad: first person narratives

  • Newspaper ad: the speed it's being recorded and read - faster, widespread and accessible/ disad: low literacy rates, no images

  • Magazines ad: there are pictures demonstrating atrocities/ disad: heavily posed and curated - what's allowed visually

  • Radio ad: bring to life witnesses, do not need literacy disad: censorship

  • Television ad: visual representation of violence live (videos) exam. vietnam disad: sponsorships


    • ]]>     2025-02-17 12:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/smckeown8/hdfxbjlpgp0mzg4l/wish/3331335081     Disadvantage https://padlet.com/smckeown8/hdfxbjlpgp0mzg4l/wish/3331336006

  • Highlighting trauma of the past -> causing consistent harm to the victims and the people related to them. It's like using people's trauma as a political tool -> not denying the need to do this but some ethical issue to think ok as well?


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