The Paintbrush and the Protest: Art & Media in Political Movements

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Jen & Carolyn explore a force that’s shaped revolutions, shaken regimes, and spoken louder than speeches: art and media. From protest murals in Chile, to Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning rap about Black America, to viral TikToks calling out injustice—art is activism. And media? It’s the megaphone.MoMA: Emory Douglas – Museum of Modern Art retrospectiveEmoryDouglas.com – Official websiteBlack Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (2007, Rizzoli Publishing) – Book collecting his most iconic imagesThe Guardian – “The Visual Vanguard of the Black Panthers”The New Yorker – Ai Weiwei's Radical Arthttps://time.com/5869111/black-lives-matter-protest-art/The Guardian – Pussy Riot and Art ActivismHerman, E. S., & Chomsky, N. (1988). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Pantheon Books.Friggeri, A., Garimella, V. R. K., & Weber, I. (2014). Rumor Cascades. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web.Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Cook, J. (2017). Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.Edelman Trust Barometer (2023). Global Report on Trust in Media. Edelman.Zeki, S., & Ishizu, T. (2011). The neurobiology of aesthetics. Archives of Italian Biology.Salimpoor, V. N., et al. (2011). Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nature Neuroscience.Launay, J., Tarr, B., & Dunbar, R. I. (2016). Synchrony as an adaptive mechanism for large-scale human social bonding. Ethology.