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Improving Media Coverage of Police Brutality Cases | The Maynard Institute for Journali... - 1 views

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      Older story, but current problem
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      This article deals with race, police brutality and media coverage- will look into further
  • while people of color who suffer violent run-ins with the authorities are typically portrayed as aggressors deserving of attacks from law enforcement officers. 
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#myNYPD Twitter campaign backfires, promotes photos of police brutality inste... - 0 views

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      I used this article for one of my blog posts already, but I think it's a perfect article for my project.
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      Shows how social media connects people fighting for a common cause
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      starts trends in different parts of a country or world
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  • It also sparked similar hashtag trends — including myLAPD — and garnered international attention.
  • “What the NYPD did is fail to see that if there are things that can be dredged up in your environment, the louder voices of discontent will tweet them,”
  • 70,000 people had posted comments on Twitter decrying police brutality
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Police brutality in the iPhone era :: Cover :: Philadelphia City Paper - 0 views

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      Opposing view: Claims that police afraid to act because of "retribution"
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      Can you be arrested for videotaping? Depends on state?
  • The video was uploaded a day later and viewed more than 200,000 times. Within a week, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey announced Josey’s firing and the DA dropped disorderly conduct charges against Guzman
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      Sometimes video evidence can genuinely help against cases involving brutality 
  • a phenomenal 6.7 million times.
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      Videos posted online can be seen by everyone, once videos go viral they can gain an incredible amount of views and attention
  • And YouTube and social media have democratized the distribution of video, just as the camcorder and, subsequently, the cameraphone revolutionized their recording.
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      Youtube is also a useful platform for posting videos of police violence
  • National Fraternal Order of Police executive director Jim Pasco has warned USA Today that “the proliferation of cheap video equipment … has had a chilling effect on some officers, who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video.”
  • police in Philly and elsewhere have been known to arrest citizen videographers and destroy cameras
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Social Media vs. Police Brutality | Sinan Ülgen - 1 views

  • social media fulfilled the role of real-time reporting
  • powerful instrument of public scrutiny
  • Still, social media cannot prevent police brutality on its own.
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      Many countries experience police brutality, some experience severe violence from it
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      survey shows impact of social media 
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      Media can sometimes cover up violent outbreaks
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      But social media can still show the real story, sharing stories + pictures that can go viral
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      Many times social media can only bring to light issues and violence, but this does not mean change will happen
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Politics of Force - 0 views

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      Connection of media and my topic, this section of article describes how media plays a huge role in how each story of police brutality is presented, if it's even presented at all
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      Covering Brutality Before Rodney King Pg. 66 provides history and context of when brutality started being covered by news outlets
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      Pg. 71 talks about videotape of King, connecting technology use & brutality 
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      Also on pg. 71-72 mentions how the tape was viewed over television, how audience reacted
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      "made for great television" Pg.73
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