Gabriel B Tait
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel B Tait |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel B |
| FAMILY NAME | Tait |
| SIGNATURE | TAIT G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3418-885X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A 50-Year Multimodal Analysis of Black Enterprise Magazine Covers, Theory, and Design Strategies
In the year Earl Graves, founder and publisher of Black Enterprise ( BE ), passed away, the magazine also celebrated its 50th anniversary. An analysis of 509 BE covers reveals changes in design, representation, and brand growth over time. Women have appeared more frequently in the past two decades, though they remain less likely than men to be on covers. The study employed visual framing and multimodal analysis to show how BE integrates cultural …
Necessity is the mother of invention
Drawing on theories of antiracist pedagogy, pandemic pedagogy, and racial identity development, this article demonstrates the benefits of campus-wide virtual conversations, arguing that they provide students in particular with salient opportunities to synthesize antiracist theory and praxis while further developing their racial identities. Using data from two such campus conversations, “Antiracism, Intersectionality, and Empowerment” and “Racial …
Seeing Liberian Culture Differently
We now live in an interdisciplinary research world. The silos that once existed in visual communication, visual anthropology, and photography are now becoming much more congenial to cross‐disciplin
Sign Language
Using Miroslav Volf’s “double vision” perspective from Exclusion and Embrace, this study focuses on learning participant perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement through the signs that protesters carry. By using a three-step methodological approach of surveys, focus groups, and piling, this research reveals the importance of communal participation in research and how participants at a primarily white institution of higher education in the M…
Really Social Photojournalism” and a Photojournalistic Changing of the Guard
In a changing technological ecosystem where photojournalists are attempting to reach larger audiences, they are forced to serve multiple masters and social media platforms. The tools and terminologies that these visual storytellers and communicators are using are also changing, which forces many of them to grapple with their roles and how best to contribute their craft within a market that is drastically different than two decades ago. This study…
Really Social Photojournalism” and a Photojournalistic Changing of the Guard
In a changing technological ecosystem where photojournalists are attempting to reach larger audiences, they are forced to serve multiple masters and social media platforms. The tools and terminologies that these visual storytellers and communicators are using are also changing, which forces many of them to grapple with their roles and how best to contribute their craft within a market that is drastically different than two decades ago. This study…
Really Social Photojournalism” and a Photojournalistic Changing of the Guard
In a changing technological ecosystem where photojournalists are attempting to reach larger audiences, they are forced to serve multiple masters and social media platforms. The tools and terminologies that these visual storytellers and communicators are using are also changing, which forces many of them to grapple with their roles and how best to contribute their craft within a market that is drastically different than two decades ago. This study…
Sign Language
Using Miroslav Volf’s “double vision” perspective from Exclusion and Embrace, this study focuses on learning participant perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement through the signs that protesters carry. By using a three-step methodological approach of surveys, focus groups, and piling, this research reveals the importance of communal participation in research and how participants at a primarily white institution of higher education in the M…
Seeing Liberian Culture Differently
We now live in an interdisciplinary research world. The silos that once existed in visual communication, visual anthropology, and photography are now becoming much more congenial to cross‐disciplin
Necessity is the mother of invention
Drawing on theories of antiracist pedagogy, pandemic pedagogy, and racial identity development, this article demonstrates the benefits of campus-wide virtual conversations, arguing that they provide students in particular with salient opportunities to synthesize antiracist theory and praxis while further developing their racial identities. Using data from two such campus conversations, “Antiracism, Intersectionality, and Empowerment” and “Racial …
A 50-Year Multimodal Analysis of Black Enterprise Magazine Covers, Theory, and Design Strategies
In the year Earl Graves, founder and publisher of Black Enterprise ( BE ), passed away, the magazine also celebrated its 50th anniversary. An analysis of 509 BE covers reveals changes in design, representation, and brand growth over time. Women have appeared more frequently in the past two decades, though they remain less likely than men to be on covers. The study employed visual framing and multimodal analysis to show how BE integrates cultural …
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Empowerment (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works)