Race and Social Media: How to Push the Conversation Forward

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Race and Social Media: How to Push the Conversation Forward
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"2014 was the year everyone started talking about race," said Jenna Wortham, a New York Times tech**logy reporter, at the Theorizing the Web (http://theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com/) conference in Brooklyn on Saturday. "Let's **t let 2014 be the only year that everyone started talking about race."

Wortham's sentiment embodied the conference's key**te plenary, called "Race and Social Media," which considered how social media can amplify — and hinder — discourse about race, how we use social networks for social justice, and whether they're even the right tools to use.

See also: How Diverse Are Your Social Networks? (http://mashable.com/2014/01/23/racial-breakdown-social-networks/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Lisa Nakamura, professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, said that in recent years, race theory has focused more on feeling: bodily experience, affects and trauma. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/27/race-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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