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By Laura Carpenter
Research Topic:
Research Topic:
Using personal experiences and observations, as well as scholarly sources and sources from professional media outlets to explore:
How equity, diversity, and inclusion relate to issues of cultural communication, especially within the realm of library and information services.
Annotated Bibliography:
Format: Article and audio from National Public Radio
Citation: Bond, S. (2020, October 30). Black and Latino voters flooded with disinformation in election's final days. National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/30/929248146/black-and-latino-voters-flooded-with-disinformation-in-elections-final-days
Annotation: This article examines the evolving experiences of those intentionally targeted by misinformation during the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in the U.S., as well as the evolving strategies being used to misdirect, discourage, and negatively influence Black and Latinx voters. Bond, the article’s author, is a Technology Correspondent for NPR with over 12 years of journalism experience. While this article focuses largely on tech-based modes of voter manipulation, such as social media, it also discusses voter suppression efforts that are more physical, locally organized, and insidious. The article discusses flyers that were handed out in majority Latinx neighborhoods with intentionally incorrect and threatening information about the voting process. This all ties in directly with the scholarly article, Remotivating the Black Vote: The Effect of Low-Quality Information on Black Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election and How Librarians Can Intervene, which focused on low-quality and misleading information targeted at Black voters during the 2016 presidential election. Bond’s article helps to examine voter suppression efforts within a manageable scope, as well as showing the reader the deep and harmful effect that these manipulative and racist tactics have on historically excluded peoples in the U.S.
Annotation written by Laura Carpenter
By: Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako), Denyvetta Davis, and Jason Kelly Alston
Format: Peer-reviewed scholarly article
Citation: Jackson, A.P., Davis, D., & Alston, J. K. (2017). Remotivating the Black vote: The effect of low-quality information on Black voters in the 2016 presidential election and how librarians can intervene. The Library Quarterly, 87(3), 236–242. https://doi.org/10.1086/692300
Annotation: This article examines the 2016 presidential election’s noticeable deficit of participating Black voters due to voter manipulation and suppression efforts targeting them directly. A specific factor that library and information professionals are well positioned to combat in the future was the widespread use of low-quality and misleading information targeted at Black voters by the Trump campaign. The authors of this article are thoroughly immersed in the arena of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as well as the library sciences. Jackson is a former president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and has served on the ALA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Davis is the current president of the BCALA. She also specializes in identifying knowledge-deficiency situations and creating target-based information products. Alston specializes in effectiveness factors for Diversity Resident Librarians and is on the executive board of the BCALA. This article is supported by NPR’s report, Black and Latino Voters Flooded with Disinformation in Election's Final Days, which also highlights specific, targeted, campaigns of low-quality information that were meant to undermine and suppress voters. It also highlights the efforts of other activists fighting for equitable and fair voting conditions for Voters of Color, much like the authors of this scholarly article. Jackson et al.’s article illuminates the ways communication and information can be harnessed to help or to destroy. This is especially relevant in a culture struggling with severe inequity, discrimination, and exclusion. The article shows that librarians have the tools and skills needed to fight misinformation that has been weaponized to perpetuate oppression.
Annotation written by Laura Carpenter
References:
References:
Bond, S. (2020, October 30). Black and Latino voters flooded with disinformation in election's final days. National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/30/929248146/black-and-latino-voters-flooded-with-disinformation-in-elections-final-days
Jackson, A.P., Davis, D., & Alston, J. K. (2017). Remotivating the Black vote: The effect of low-quality information on Black voters in the 2016 presidential election and how librarians can intervene. The Library Quarterly, 87(3), 236–242. https://doi.org/10.1086/692300
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