{"title":"Playing on the Margins: The Emergence of Digital Black Religion","authors":"M. Guillory","doi":"10.1080/00064246.2022.2079066","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Media is best viewed as an organizer. While newspapers, magazines, television and radio inform and entertain, they first and foremost shape and collectivize an audience. Whether we watch BLACK JOURNAL or the 6:00 o’clock news; read the CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER or PLAYBOY, we are involved in a collective experience with thousands and in some cases, millions of other people. Messages, attitudes, emotions, information, lies and distortions of all kinds permeate our consciousness... 1","PeriodicalId":45369,"journal":{"name":"BLACK SCHOLAR","volume":"52 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"BLACK SCHOLAR","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2022.2079066","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ETHNIC STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Media is best viewed as an organizer. While newspapers, magazines, television and radio inform and entertain, they first and foremost shape and collectivize an audience. Whether we watch BLACK JOURNAL or the 6:00 o’clock news; read the CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER or PLAYBOY, we are involved in a collective experience with thousands and in some cases, millions of other people. Messages, attitudes, emotions, information, lies and distortions of all kinds permeate our consciousness... 1
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Founded in 1969 and hailed by The New York Times as "a journal in which the writings of many of today"s finest black thinkers may be viewed," THE BLACK SCHOLAR has firmly established itself as the leading journal of black cultural and political thought in the United States. In its pages African American studies intellectuals, community activists, and national and international political leaders come to grips with basic issues confronting black America and Africa.