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The Role of Social Media for Community-Based Organizations Focused on Environmental Justice in Southeast Los Angeles.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Role of Social Media for Community-Based Organizations Focused on Environmental Justice in Southeast Los Angeles./
Author:	Lopez, Jaime Israel.
Description:	1 online resource (244 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03A.
Subject:	Urban planning. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380156059

The Role of Social Media for Community-Based Organizations Focused on Environmental Justice in Southeast Los Angeles.
Lopez, Jaime Israel.

The Role of Social Media for Community-Based Organizations Focused on Environmental Justice in Southeast Los Angeles. - 1 online resource (244 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Environmental justice is the notion that all people have the same degree of protection from environmental harm and access to participation in environmental decision-making and amenities (US EPA, 2017). Governments and regulators rely on scientific terminology when addressing environmental injustices, often ignoring residents' embodied experiences. One possible solution for capturing community narratives about environmental harms involves using social media as tools that help engage important storytelling from a bottom-up perspective. Social media content created by community-based organizations (CBOs) can function as a mechanism for social justice or as an extended form of public participation. Social media might allow planners and policymakers to understand such narratives more inclusively by authentically capturing how residents experience and respond to such injustices. Additionally, CBOs' social media engagement might bridge knowledge gaps between community members and policymakers and scientists. As such, this work can play an important role in adjudicating environmental controversies when scientific knowledge and the politics of social justice clash.Testimony shared via social media can counter or inform government narratives that frame environments and injustices. Since disadvantaged communities often lack access to experts of their own, I focus on CBOs that prioritize marginalized residents' lived experiences and use video and social media to amplify their voices. In addition to framing, this study is heavily focused on storytelling and how it relates to environmental justice communities. This research aligns with an anti-positivist environmental justice research framework. In this light, social media content can be critical for ensuring the democratization of expert knowledge. By adding such work to the larger body of evidence used by planners and policymakers, community-based social media content could be considered extended forms of public participation and important platforms for marginalized and racialized communities to garner and disseminate evidence of environmental harm.This study focuses on two social media case studies in which two CBOs attempt to engage their followers with varying forms of environmental information. Among the injustices that these social media accounts engage with include the Exide Battery Plant in the city of Vernon, the multiple railyards affecting the city of Commerce, the metal forging companies and refineries located throughout Southeast Los Angeles, and the air pollution impacts from diesel truck activity along the 710 freeway. While these examples are not an exhaustive list of environmental concerns for Southeast Los Angeles, these local hot spots represent the region's environmental problems. Considering that the boundaries of SELA are a matter of some debate, as the region includes the nine cities that comprise the 40th congressional state district, this study ends with a discussion of Southeast Los Angeles as a spatial imaginary in addition to the findings drawn from the aforementioned social media case studies that function as the core of this research.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380156059Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180826
Urban planning.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Community-based organizationsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The Role of Social Media for Community-Based Organizations Focused on Environmental Justice in Southeast Los Angeles.
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