Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (@MeredithDClark; she/her/hers), is an associate professor at Northeastern University in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies, and director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation, and Social Change. Her first book, “We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and Digital Counternarratives” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. During this episode, Dr. Clark and Jabari discuss the recent Black Twitter Summit held at the Craig Newark School of Journalism at CUNY, her unconventional journey in pursuing a dissertation based on digital black communication as a graduate student, the importance of hashtag activism to spreading information to the Black community, the future of Twitter post-Elon Musk and the potential role of Black voices in rebooting social media as we know it.
Uncommon Naledge is hosted by Dr. Jabari Evans and edited and produced by Connor Bird.
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Original music for introduction and outro produced by Michael "Double 0" Aguilar.
