If anyone wants to expand the topic at all--contemporary civil rights--that is, one can include
the protests, demonstrations regarding immigrants and human rights. Drios
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Bramlett-Solomon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Mon 9/24/2007 7:46 PM
To: Fleming-Rife, Anita
Cc: LILLIE FEARS; Meta Carstarphen; Rios, Diana; Dwight Brooks
Subject: Re: Panel Proposal
Anita --
Before I received your email I had made a note to myself to submit the same
panel idea titled: ³New Weapons in the Fight for Social Justice:
Cyber-Protesting in the Jena Six Case.²
Definitely we need to have a panel or round table discussion on this topic.
When I asked students in my Race, Gender & Media class last month who had
heard of the Jena Six only the five black students in the class of 40 knew
about the case (four from internet sources and one from CNN. No one had
seen it in the largest local paper (The Arizona Republic).
NPR had a good discussion last Thurs. on the blogging, podcasting,
emailing, and internet news dissemination in the case, including background
on the school incident, charges the Black students face and cyber civil
rights movement.
Would happily assist with facilitating this panel in any way, including
presenting on the topic.
Best,
Sharon
On 9/23/07 12:37 PM, "Anita Rife" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have been thinking about the utility of the internet as a tool for
> mobilizing the students who demonstrated on behalf of the Jenna--6, as I am
> sure that you have been. In fact, it is my thinking that this effort may have
> sparked the beginning of a 21st century civil rights movement. If you recall,
> and you probably donıt given that I am the ancient one among you {smile), the
> civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s depended upon the traditional media
> for its momentum, but here we are now with a grass roots movement fueled by
> the new media and to some extent, the convergence of the old and the new<radio
> and internet. I thought of you four, but there may be others who may want to
> participate on a panel that addresses this exciting new development. Please
> let me know if youıre interested and what aspects of this topic youıre most
> interested in pursing for a MAC panel proposal at AEJ-Chicago. Diana, we may
> want to broaden the panel idea that we talked about to cover this<or maybe
> treat it as a separate panel. Let me know what youıre thinking on this.
>
> BTW, I also thought of Will Sutton, but I canıt find an e-mail address for him
> at Hampton. If anyone knows his address, please forward this on to him.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anita Fleming-Rife
>
Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Ph.D.
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1305
Office: 480 965-3678 Fax: 480 965-7041
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