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Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D., (she/her/hers) is a journalist and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power in digital, social, and news media. She was named to The Root 100 in 2015 for her dissertation research on Black Twitter.  

Her book on Black Twitter and Black Digital Resistance is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Her most recent article, “DRAG THEM: A Brief Etymology of Cancel Culture,” was published in Communication & the Public in 2020. Her research has also been published in Electronic News, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, the Journal of Social Media in Society, New Media & Society, and Social Movement Studies, among others.

Clark is Academic Lead for Documenting the Now II, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She develops new scholarship on teaching students about digital archiving and community-based archives from a media studies perspective. In 2020-21, she was a faculty fellow with Data & Society. She is a faculty affiliate at the Center on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an advisory board member for the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism, Project Information Literacy (Harvard University), and the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (New York University). Clark is an in-demand research consultant on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in media.

Connect with her on Twitter @MeredithDClark. Download her publications at no cost from her personal website at www.meredithdclark.com.