We Tried to Tell Y'All

Black Twitter is all at once a social media phenomenon, a place, and a people. Through interviews with Black social media users, news media analysis, and her own perspecive as a Black Xennial journalist, Meredith D. Clark makes a definitive contribution on the digital legacy of Black media production in the 21st century. We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twtter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives, offers both testimony and admonition to those whose sense of 'the Black experience in America' relies solely on news and entertainment media.

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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.