Dara N. Byrne, Assistant Professor, Speech, Theatre & Media Studies
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Three Expertise Keywords:
OnlineDiasporas, PublicDiscourse, Race
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
I am interested in understanding how young people of color learn and teach each other about the complexities of racial identifications in online environments is a requirement for anyone who wishes to have serious discussions about the politics of race and racial justice in an increasingly globalized, digitized, multicultural and transnational world.
Recent Posts:
- Dara N. Byrne: beyond Media Literacy to Combat “Why Bother” (November 16, 2006)
- Dara N. Byrne: lurking on a racially dedicated social networking site (November 14, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
My current work… examines the development of public discourse on racially dedicated websites and considers the ways in which these sustained online communities impact young people of color.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Black Issues in Higher Education, Anderson, J., & Byrne, D.N. (Eds). (2004). The unfinished agenda of Brown v. Board. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Black Issues in Higher Education & Byrne, D.N. (Eds). (2005). The unfinished agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund & Byrne, D.N. (Eds.). (2006). HBCUs models for success: Supporting achievement and retention of black males. New York, Word for Word Publishing.
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund & Byrne, D.N. (Eds.). (2005). Brown v. Board of Education: Its impact on public education 1954-2004. New York, Word for Word Publishing.
Byrne, D.N. & Rousseau, J. (2007, accepted for publication). The ‘Defining’ Problem of Black Authenticity in Canada: Real Slang and the Grammar of Cultural Hybridity. In M. Japtok & R. Jenkins (Eds.), Authentic Blackness/ Black Authenticity.
