The national electronic media has covered this. I've seen it over and over on CNN. Professor Kathleen Fearn-Banks Department of Communication University of Washington Website: www.kathleenfearn-banks.com On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Petra Guerra wrote: > Count me in! It is time to unite forces. Children of undocumented parents are being left behind to fend for themselves while their parents are deported. Let's make the connection; noose hanging from trees, children abandoned and young women getting raped. What else is the media not reporting???? > > > Petra Guerra, PhD > Assistant Professor > Department Of Communication > 1201 W. University Dr. > Edinburg, TX 78539 > 956-318-5330 > > -----Original Message----- > From: FOR THE MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION DIV. OF AEJMC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rios, Diana > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:02 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Panel Proposal > > 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 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > I will look to the hills from whence cometh my help... >