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  Re: Awkward Black Girl: Too Black for TV

  Who Can Be Black on TV?

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  Aymar Jean Christian Northwestern University

  Wednesday, May 1, 2013 — 3:35 pm

  "controversial." Consider the racist tweets she got after winning a Shorty from people who didn't know the ...
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  Awkward Black Girl: Too Black for TV

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  Alfred Martin University of Texas at Austin

  May 01, 2013

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  Awkward Black Girl: Too Black for TV web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl race Issa Rae Curator's Note In media in the 21 st Century, an abundance of black bodies on screen equals a black media text – intended, industrially speaking, fo ...
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  Awkward Black Girl’s Success in New Media Highlights Old Racism

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  Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. Goucher College

  April 30, 2013

  2 comments

  Internet sensation. The debut episode of the first season earned more than 250,000 visits during season one ...
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  Re: Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily Civic Life

  Library Activism? Or Political Theater?

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  Renee Hobbs Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island, Harrington School of Communication and Media

  Tuesday, April 16, 2013 — 6:35 am

  barbarian wins." Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. But if critical media literacy wants to explore power relationships ...
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  Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily Civic Life

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  Paul Mihailidis Emerson College

  April 15, 2013

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  Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily Civic Life Media Literacy critical media literacy civic engagement citizenship Curator's Note In 2008, scholar Lance W. Bennett posited a new dichotomy for thinking about c ...
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  Re: Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

  RESPONSE TO EVA: TOUCHE

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  Friday, March 1, 2013 — 5:52 pm

  what bodies "earn" the right to visibility in the ceremony's so-called ... directors not earning recognition until recently even though the visual/technical categories (e.g. ...
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  In Good Taste?: The BET Awards and the Burden of Representation

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  Lauren Cramer Pace University

  March 01, 2013

  3 comments

  artists who perform and win awards at the ceremony typically represent the most mainstream tastes and ...
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  A Taste for Reality

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  February 28, 2013

  4 comments

  always at their very worst. I would say more but I think Lena Dunham’s about to win Best Director for Bad ...
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  Re: ‘Amongst Friends Here Tonight’: National Awards for International Television

  'Quality' and niche content

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  Sarah Martindale Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham

  Wednesday, February 27, 2013 — 11:17 am

  broad appeal and earned nearly $290 million in lifetime grosses according to Box Office Mojo. In her ...
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  Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  February 27, 2013

  4 comments

  celebrities.  Since Marlon Brando's 1973 Academy Best Actor win for The Godfather and his controversial ... Sean Penn’s Best Actor win for Milk where he deemed Academy voters “Comi-Homo-loving ... sons-of-guns;" or Hillary Swank's call for "uniting through difference" in her win for the ...

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