We Tried to Tell Y'All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives

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Meredith D. Clark (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Northeastern University)

We Tried to Tell Y'All

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Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives

Meredith D. Clark (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Northeastern University)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
26 May 2025

Films, movies & cinema; Television; Communication studies; Ethnic studies; Comparative politics

Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics

Through interviews, news analysis, and personal observation, Meredith D. Clark presents the first book about how Black Twitter users carved out a vital space for fast-paced, incisive commentary on Black life in America not found in the mainstream press.

Since 1827, when Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper to be published by free Black men in the United States, Black folks have been making use of the media technologies available to them to tell their own stories in their own ways. In We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives, Meredith D. Clark explains how Black social media users subvert the digital divide narrative while confronting centuries of erasure, omission, and mischaracterization of Black life in 'mainstream' media. This ethnographic exploration of Black Twitter draws on news media analysis, in-depth interviews, and personal observation to trace the phenomenon's three levels of community connection, and advances a theory of Black Digital Resistance that illustrates how Black social media users harnessed the platform to annotate and narrate everything from play to protest to everyday life. From chapters that recognize the ""locomotive power"" of Black women and femmes' intellectual labor to a thorough takedown of so-called ""cancel culture"", We Tried to Tell Y'all offers readers a rich exploration of the latest chapter of Black media production. Regardless of the future direction of the platform, Black Twitter will forever remain an important moment in the long history of the Black press and Black social movements in the United States.

By: Meredith D. Clark (Associate Professor Associate Professor Northeastern University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 15mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 235mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9780190068134
ISBN 10: 0190068132
Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 26 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Chapter 1. How Do I Get to Black Twitter? Chapter 2. We Wish to Tweet Our Own Cause--Theorizing Black Twitter Chapter 3. Sisters Gonna Work It Out--Black Women's Digital Labor Chapter 4. Agency, Activism, and Agenda-Setting in the Movement for Black Lives Chapter 5. 'Cancel Culture' is Digital Accountability by Another Name Chapter 6. ""There are Black People in the Future"""

Meredith D. Clark, (@MeredithDClark; she/her/hers), is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where she also serves as founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change. Clark is a two-time graduate of Florida A&M University, and earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power.

Reviews for We Tried to Tell Y'All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives

Grounded in academic research, this book offers a systematic exploration of Black Digital Culture. Readers, especially students from the fields of journalism, media, and communication, can gain insight into research methodology and learn how to communicate research findings to a broad audience effectively. * A. Megwalu, Choice *