Meredith D Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 322826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith D Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith D |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2181-150X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Turns Out My Paternal Grandmother has 16% Native Blood”
This study explores an online phenomenon that we conceptualize as “digital race (re)-making.” In the context of genetic ancestry test discourses, we found digital race (re)-making a sequential four-stage race-making process where users (a) authenticate their previously identified racial identity, (b) destabilize the previous race by incorporating DNA test results, (c) negotiate potential conflict between their previous racial identity and the DNA…
From strategy to sentiment
Grounded under a Blue Sky
This article provides an introduction to a scholarly forum on intersectional approaches to challenging the peer-review process. Developed out of a Blue Sky session at the International Communication Association’s annual conference in 2025, the article and the forum discuss ways to build out of the strength of differences with practical insights that can be adopted throughout the publication process to advance critical scholarship
Rooted in White Identity Politics
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean
Predestination or possibility?
Racial Differences in Response to Chadwick Boseman’s Colorectal Cancer Death
The August 2020 death of Black actor Chadwick Boseman, at age 43 from colon cancer was a notable public event. Given Boseman's popularity, particularly amongst Black audiences, and racial disparities in colorectal cancer rates, public responses to this news provided a window into potential racial differences in expressing and responding to parasocial grief, that is, grief at the loss of a public figure. Additionally, given how the movies he starr…
Introduction
This special issue offers a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives from a network of Black scholars in sociology, technology, media studies and humanities living through economic, political, social, and technological paradigm shifts that prompt us to revisit Stuart Hall's question, 'What is this Black in Black popular culture?' in the context of Black Digital Culture. We take up the challenge to center Black technocultural production on social…
Drag Them
The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites, arguing…
Remaking the #Syllabus
Between 2014 and 2017, the creation of hashtag syllabi—bricolage iterations of reading lists created by or circulated among educators on Twitter—emerged as a direct response for teaching about three highly publicized incidents of racial violence in the United States. Educators used hashtags as a means of sharing resources with their networks to provide non-normative literatures from marginalized scholars for teaching to transgress in the wake of …
White folks’ work
BlackLivesMatter, a social-media-fueled social movement for racial justice in the United States, rose to international prominence between 2014 and 2016. Described by one of its co-creators as a call to collective action in the struggle against racial inequity, the movement's hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter) was second to only #Ferguson among the most frequently used racial justice hashtags in the first 10 years of Twitter's existence. This critical ca…
Beyond the Hashtags
Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest
The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its consequences directly. This study develops and measures three theoretically grounded metrics of social media power—unity, numbers, and commitment—as wielded on Twitter by a social movement (Black Lives Matter [BLM]), a counter-movement (political conservatives), and an …
Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest
The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its consequences directly. This study develops and measures three theoretically grounded metrics of social media power—unity, numbers, and commitment—as wielded on Twitter by a social movement (Black Lives Matter [BLM]), a counter-movement (political conservatives), and an …
Drag Them
The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites, arguing…
White folks’ work
BlackLivesMatter, a social-media-fueled social movement for racial justice in the United States, rose to international prominence between 2014 and 2016. Described by one of its co-creators as a call to collective action in the struggle against racial inequity, the movement's hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter) was second to only #Ferguson among the most frequently used racial justice hashtags in the first 10 years of Twitter's existence. This critical ca…
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean
Rooted in White Identity Politics
Beyond the Hashtags
Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest
The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its consequences directly. This study develops and measures three theoretically grounded metrics of social media power—unity, numbers, and commitment—as wielded on Twitter by a social movement (Black Lives Matter [BLM]), a counter-movement (political conservatives), and an …
White folks’ work
BlackLivesMatter, a social-media-fueled social movement for racial justice in the United States, rose to international prominence between 2014 and 2016. Described by one of its co-creators as a call to collective action in the struggle against racial inequity, the movement's hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter) was second to only #Ferguson among the most frequently used racial justice hashtags in the first 10 years of Twitter's existence. This critical ca…
Drag Them
The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites, arguing…
Remaking the #Syllabus
Between 2014 and 2017, the creation of hashtag syllabi—bricolage iterations of reading lists created by or circulated among educators on Twitter—emerged as a direct response for teaching about three highly publicized incidents of racial violence in the United States. Educators used hashtags as a means of sharing resources with their networks to provide non-normative literatures from marginalized scholars for teaching to transgress in the wake of …
Racial Differences in Response to Chadwick Boseman’s Colorectal Cancer Death
The August 2020 death of Black actor Chadwick Boseman, at age 43 from colon cancer was a notable public event. Given Boseman's popularity, particularly amongst Black audiences, and racial disparities in colorectal cancer rates, public responses to this news provided a window into potential racial differences in expressing and responding to parasocial grief, that is, grief at the loss of a public figure. Additionally, given how the movies he starr…
Introduction
This special issue offers a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives from a network of Black scholars in sociology, technology, media studies and humanities living through economic, political, social, and technological paradigm shifts that prompt us to revisit Stuart Hall's question, 'What is this Black in Black popular culture?' in the context of Black Digital Culture. We take up the challenge to center Black technocultural production on social…
Predestination or possibility?
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean
From strategy to sentiment
Grounded under a Blue Sky
This article provides an introduction to a scholarly forum on intersectional approaches to challenging the peer-review process. Developed out of a Blue Sky session at the International Communication Association’s annual conference in 2025, the article and the forum discuss ways to build out of the strength of differences with practical insights that can be adopted throughout the publication process to advance critical scholarship
Rooted in White Identity Politics
“Turns Out My Paternal Grandmother has 16% Native Blood”
This study explores an online phenomenon that we conceptualize as “digital race (re)-making.” In the context of genetic ancestry test discourses, we found digital race (re)-making a sequential four-stage race-making process where users (a) authenticate their previously identified racial identity, (b) destabilize the previous race by incorporating DNA test results, (c) negotiate potential conflict between their previous racial identity and the DNA…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)