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Transcript: Databite No. 136: Metrics, Media, and Race

20 Oct 2020

So what I'm going to proceed in the next 10 minutes is first give an overview of the book and then tease out some of the ramifications that this ethnographic study of metrics and how they impact news production and of how that kind of impacts the question of how the media is reproducing and reinforcing a structure and culture of white supremacy and then kind of move to give the floor to Joe. [...] Joseph Torres: [00:21:14] But also the publisher of the paper was also the printer of the paper and in colonial times, often the printer of the paper, and when he placed slave ads in newspapers for the sale of in-state Black folks, the printer was the broker between the buyer and seller. [...] Right? And so with our project, what we want to do is to work in coalition with media makers, activists, anyone who is the keeper of the story to tell the story of the harm of anti-Black racism in the media to the Black community and to deal with the policies. [...] The US government has a chair on the board and he creates and it becomes from this radio system that we're like hobbyists you know like developing what radio potentially could be to government stepping in and and allowing instead of regulating each new industry to allow in the voices of the many to speak, it consolidates the voice of few. [...] And so, of course, in usually and when we talk about it in terms of journalism, we come back to the Federal Communications Commission and the creation of the Commission, because part of what was so important about the FCC was that it was not just a matter of who could speak, but who could get a license to broadcast.

Authors

Data & Society

Pages
18
Published in
United States of America