Chat with AIExam 6: Media in Everyday Life
Describe the ways in which the Black Lives Matter movement harnessed social media's potential to protest and engender change.
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a. Black Lives Matter began as a movement in the context of protests against police violence and took on a social media life in 2013 as a Twitter hashtag. (#BlackLivesMatter) when George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed high school student who had gone out to get snacks at a local convenience store in Sanford, Florida.
b. The Black Lives Matter movement expanded online as people began to use social media to share information and phone camera footage documenting police violence and killings of other young black men around the United States.
c. By deciding in many cases not to show images of victims, emphasizing instead images expressing empowerment and rights, movement participants defined the discourse rather than allowing it to be defined by those in power.
Answers may include the following:
a. A bystander video shot by Feidin Santana documented officer Michael Slager killing Walter Scott, an unarmed motorist, on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina. The video contradicted the official police report of the incident and eventually launched a public discussion about documentation and the credibility of police reporting of violent incidents.
b. After police in Ferguson, Missouri, killed Michael Brown in August 2014, protests rolled out for weeks that generated signs stating "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" and images of people protesting with their hands up, referencing the fact that Brown had his hands up in the air at the moment he was shot. The phrase and pose became iconic.
c. Nicholas Mirzeoff states, "These new conditions are producing a new politics. . . . The young, often queer, often female, black activist generation that has come into being since Ferguson relies on social media to make these protests, and the actions that cause them, visible in new ways."
Explanation: Black Lives Matter movement is a key example of the harnessing of social media's potential to protest and to engender change by deciding not only what to show but also what not to show, taking control through the curation of images that circulate on social media beyond those provided by the press and the police.
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