Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions

IF 1.1 2区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-25 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2022.2086991

Myles W. Mason

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ABSTRACT To facilitate deeper investigations into the U.S.’s centralized emergency number, 911, this article attends to the first decade of the service’s implementation in the mid-twentieth century. Ostensibly, 911 was created to hasten responses by public services for health and safety. Yet, federal backing for 911 first occurred in 1967 in a report admonishing the recent “race riots,” articulating predominantly Black communities as a threat to white society and articulating white individuals as essential extensions of the police. Notably, 911’s media infrastructure is replete with affective anti-Black discourses that produced an atmosphere of anti-Black, pro-police dispositions that uniquely capacitated white citizens to discipline the Black body. This history opens deeper inquiry into 911 and offers context for contemporary 911 controversies.

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建立911:情感反黑人、亲警察倾向的媒体基础设施

为了更深入地研究美国的中央紧急电话号码911，本文关注了该服务在二十世纪中叶实施的第一个十年。从表面上看，911是为了加快公共服务部门对健康和安全的反应。然而，联邦政府对911事件的支持最早出现在1967年的一份报告中，该报告告诫最近的“种族骚乱”，明确表示以黑人为主的社区是对白人社会的威胁，并明确表示白人是警察的重要延伸。值得注意的是，911的媒体基础设施充满了反黑人的情感话语，产生了一种反黑人、亲警察倾向的氛围，这种氛围使白人公民有能力约束黑人身体。这段历史开启了对911更深层次的探究，并为当代911争议提供了背景。

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.