âAt First I Thought it Was a Jokeâ: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube
The entire video record of the conference estimated at around 24 hours of material was mysteriously disappeared from YouTube say conference organizers.
An academic critical media literacy conference warning of the dangers of media censorship has, ironically, been censored by YouTube. The Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas 2020 took place without incident online over two days in October and featured a number of esteemed speakers and panels discussing issues concerning modern media studies.
Weeks later, however, the entire video record of the conference estimated at around 24 hours of material disappeared from YouTube. Organizer Nolan Higdon of California State University East Bay, began receiving worried messages from other academics, some of which were shared with
Posted By Paul Rosenberg on Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:00 AM click to enlarge Illustration by Anson Stevens-Bollen Every year since 1976, Project Censored has performed an invaluable service shedding light on the most significant news that s somehow
not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it, and the lines are clearly drawn. That s not the case in America yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day, such as stories about violence against Native American women and girls, even though four out of five of them experience violence at some point in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of non-Native perpetrators.
Since 1976,
Project Censored s role has been to shed light on the most significant news that s somehow
not fit to print. As previously noted in Part 1 of this series (published Dec. 24), censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it, and the lines are clearly drawn. That s not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day. The media erasure is part of a system of targeting and marginalization. While journalists everyday work hard to expose injustices, they work within a system where some injustices are so deeply baked in that stories exposing them are rarely told and even more rarely expanded upon to give them their proper due.
Every year since 1976,
Project Censored has performed an invaluable service shedding light on the most significant news that s somehow
not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it, and the lines are clearly drawn. That s not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day, such as stories about violence against Native American women and girls, even though four out of five of them experience violence at some point in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of non-Native perpetrators.
Thursday December 24 Corporations and Democracy w/Lynda McClure 3pm
As if 2020 hasn’t been full of events and news, this week on Corporations and Democracy, Mickey Huff, Executive Director of Project Censored, will talk about what hasn’t gotten coverage, and you’ll be amazed at the big news stories that have been censored this year. Join host Lynda McClure for Corporations and Democracy at 3 pm on Thursday, here on KZYX and Z.