Meredith Clark
Assistant Professor, Media Studies
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Meredith Clark is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her Teaching topics include: News Writing, international media, new technologies in journalism and, research methods. Dr. Clark’s research interest are Digital and social media; the intersection of race, media and power; multimedia journalism pedagogy. Her most recent work, Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice examines the motivations, aims and outcomes of using the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag online and in offline protests during 2014 and 2015. Dr. Clark is driven by the believe that everyone has a story to tell and use her newsroom experience and digital and social media platforms to connect with diverse communities in person and online.
Selected Publication
Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
Dec 2020 • Race and Media: Critical Approaches 205-217 • NYU Press
Oct 2020 • Communication and the Public 5(3-4):88-92
The Roots of Black Digital Activism
Charlton McIlwain, Deen Freelon and Meredith Clark
Jan 2020 • Yes! Magazine
#Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice
Deen Freelon, Charlton McIlwain and Meredith Clark
Feb 2016 • Center for Media & Social Impact
Media Appearance
Mar 2021 • The Takeaway
Meredith Clark, Rachel Kuo, Moya Bailey and Sarah J. Jackson
Aug 2020 • The New Yorker
André Brock and Meredith Clark
Dec 2019 • The Guardian
André Brock and Meredith Clark
May 2019 • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Apr 2019 • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS)
Deen Freelon, Lori Kido Lopez, Meredith Clark and Sarah J. Jackson
Feb 2018 • Fast Company