[Air-L] Sorry for cross posting if it has been listed already (new way to add name)

[Gabriella Coleman, Dr.]

Hi all,

I am getting a lot of names, which is great but a little overwhelming
for me and my email.

I should have thought of this before but can people add your name and
affiliation here and then I will copy and paste into the document saving
me a lot of time.

Please add it if you have already emailed me as well. Sorry for the
extra step

https://pad.riseup.net/p/add-name

Thanks!

Gabriella



 
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Hello,

I've not been able to check all my messages recently so apologies if
someone has already shared this statement but I figured redundancy is
good in this case.

Here is a statement drafted by media scholar Arvind Rajagopal at NYU
that reflects on some of the reasons sustaining the whiteness of media
studies as it calls upon scholars to take the steps needed to move away
from this troubled and troubling history.

If you'd like to sign on, please send me an email and I can add your
name. I've included the brief statement below and a link to it as well.

Regards,

Gabriella


https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_document_d_1Ccd-2DRu-5FZ0IG94xgLrMK8w6-5Fr8sotJ2v0aMju4vckG7I_edit-3Fusp-3Dsharing&d=DwIGaQ&c=U0G0XJAMhEk_X0GAGzCL7Q&r=X0Xp_GV0DKcZGu17VvJ_ZFpNhSQwQmmlVFw3kxNu_B0&m=N5ulYSAMnjLgLWtQjBT3RNweq9ZdwPuDBL3iQEO22AY&s=1vm6DetWu8QQ5ujQteiaTDu74-1ie9iJgQ6hfEugyPQ&e=




Dear colleagues



Please consider circulating the statement on your lists, and adding your
names to the signatories, below. Thanks.

**



We express our solidarity with the global protests against anti-Black
and other forms of racism occurring at this time, and echo our
colleagues in their demand to examine structures of racial privilege
within each of our communities, disciplines, and professions. The
long-standing assumption of technology and developmental models as
civilizational gifts from whites to non-whites, and from the West to the
non-West, takes new forms in Media Studies, which has its own disavowed
history of racism and bias. In media studies, different subcultures of
scholarship proliferate but often without interacting with each other,
and without interrogating the overarching political history of the
field. The intensive promotion of mass and new media as technologies of
freedom has its moment of reckoning today, when citizens’ recordings of
police violence encounters a president who rejects any criticism and
opposition as “fake news.” The Cold War equation of media with freedom
presumed a liberal order where white identity politics/white supremacy
did not have to name itself. Interrogating assumptions of racial
privilege embedded in structures of media use also entails revisiting
the limits of Media Studies, a post WW2 discipline that has fragmented
into a multi-paradigm field without coming to terms with its own fraught
history. For this to happen, we need to open ourselves and our histories
up to critique, and ensure that everyone, from the Global South to the
Global North, can be a subject of media studies rather than an object.


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