In progress: An ongoing list of links and other resources related to the topics at hand.
Please feel free to contribute to this list by submitting a comment or sending a tweet to @Digital_Du_Bois
In no particular order of importance, some assorted URLs follow:
NEWLY POSTED LINKS TO DIGITAL DU BOIS — STATISTICAL TABLES, GENERAL INTEREST VIDEOS & PRESENTATIONS & INFOGRAPHICS
Shift Happens (Version 6, 2012)
The Opportunity Gap (InfoGraphic by Good)
ThinkGoogle’s “5 Truths About The African American Digital Consumer” InfoGraphic and a related short animated video on the same subject
The Sentencing Project — Chart on Racial Disparity Among People Incarcerated
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Minority Health — African American Profile
The Root: A Portrait of Black America on the Eve of the 2010 Census
Pew Internet & American Life Project — Digital Differences PowerPoint
Early 20th Century InfoGraphics by Students of W.E.B. Du Bois
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Unemployment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age
State of the Black Union (Tenth Anniversary of this event; morning session via C-SPAN)
Slate, from 2010 — How Black People Use Twitter, by Farhad Manjoo
“Ernie Annenberg” Avatar From Second Life, 2007
Google CEO: A Profound Information Revolution
Next Nature: What Is Next Nature
TED talks, Amber Case: We Are All Cyborgs Now
Hon. Michael Copps’ topical blog posts: http://benton.org/digital_beat
2012 State of Black America Summary & Webcast: http://nul.iamempowered.com/content/state-black-america-executive-summary
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY — AFRICAN AMERICAN PARTICIPATION
Data show Hollywood movies with black directors have more black characters
(Story about a report and an ongoing study by USC Annenberg’s Dr. Stacy L. Smith and Marc Choueiti)
http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/110519_SmithHollywood.aspx
Not quite a prime time for black families on network TV, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 13 2012
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-black-family-tv-20121013,0,914003.story?page=1&track=rss
SAG – Casting Data Reports 2008 (latest)
http://www.sagaftra.org/files/sag/documents/2007-2008_CastingDataReports.pdf
WGAW – 2011 Hollywood Writers Report
http://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/who_we_are/hwr11execsum.pdf
MEDIA OWNERSHIP
Review of the Literature Regarding Critical Information Needs of the American Public http://www.fcc.gov/blog/review-literature-regarding-critical-information-needs-american-public
MMTC
http://mmtconline.org/download/law_and_policy/media_ownership/BroadcastOwn-Recon.pdf
NTIA – Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership
http://search.ntia.doc.gov/pdf/mtdpreportv2.pdf
NTIA started collecting info on minority ownership of broadcast facilities
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/opadhome/mtdpweb/01minrept/mtdpexecsum.htm
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/mtdpreportv2.pdf
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/reports/9
Female and Minority TV Station Ownership (Oct 2006)
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/files/out_of_the_picture.pdf
MARKET ACCESS
Hispanic Broadband Access: Making the Most of the Mobile, Connected Future
http://mobilefuture.org/content/pages/hispanic_broadband_access_making_the_most_of_the_mobile_connected_future
Anna Everett, “The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Afrocentricity and the Digital Public Sphere,”
Social Text, 71 (Volume 20, Number 2), Summer 2002, pp. 125-146
MARKET ENTRY BARRIERS
Whose Spectrum is it anyway? (A qualitative study)
http://transition.fcc.gov/opportunity/meb_study/historical_study.pdf
Minority Tax certificate program – should it be revived?
http://broadbandandsocialjustice.org/2012/07/fcc-commissioners-call-on-congress-to-revive-minority-tax-certificate-policy/
The Impact of FCC’s duopoly rule relaxation on minority-owned broadcast stations 1999-2006
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-3470A9.pdf
FCC report on diversity
http://transition.fcc.gov/osp/inc-report/INoC-23-Diversity.pdf
Hollywood “Honkywood” for the Summer
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/hollywood-won%E2%80%99t-learn-it%E2%80%99s-white-summer-again-27050
RADIO
Minority Radio Ownership 2009
http://transition.fcc.gov/ownership/workshop-110209/sandoval.pdf
http://law.scu.edu/faculty/file/Minority%20Commercial%20Radio%20Broadcasters%20Sandoval%20MMTC%202009%20final%20.pdf