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Black Entertainment Television:Impact of Corporate Ownership on Black Media
- Author(s):
- JERMAINE HEKILI CATHCART
- Editor(s):
- Jyotirmaya Patnaik (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- Communication Studies, Digital Humanists, Film Studies, Information Ecosystems, Television Studies
- Subject(s):
- Television, Mass media and war, Broadcast journalism, Communication, Digital communications, Race, Sociology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- media, racialization, minstrelsy, Media and conflict, Digital communication
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/r47m-xg05
- Abstract:
- In 2001, CEO and owner of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Bob Johnson, sold majority ownership to Viacom with much controversy. Many people in the black community questioned the appropriateness of a network that claimed to represent black life being under the defacto control of a white dominated corporation. This study seeks to assess the impact of the change in ownership upon the way African Americans are represented in BET’s programming. The study begins by placing black popular cultures roots in the minstrel show and shows how that form of media continues to plague American popular culture, and indeed, BET, today. The study then undertakes an interpretive textual analysis to show that BET shows and programming, under the ownership of a white corporation is used as a mechanism of white imperialistic ideological domina tion.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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