"this series highlights stories of how different Asian American communities are using grassroots digital media to meet their communities' need for trustworthy in-language information amid a media environment distorted by rampant disinformation. TNP (Trần Nhật Phong) is a Vietnamese American YouTube influencer based in Texas, who offers his own individual interpretations of English-language sources and domestic and international news for the Vietnamese diaspora. With an estimated 475,000 subscribers, he uploads multiple videos daily."
"In his coverage, TNP offers partial accounts. For example, in coverage of Gaza solidarity protests he frames activists' calls for peace as indistinguishable from the violence done by countries at war, labeling the demonstrators "communists," which is both factually inaccurate and a distracting form of red-baiting. In response to this kind of inadequate media coverage-lacking in both accuracy and nuance-grassroots immigrant organizations continue developing a diasporic community media journalism (DCMJ) to build a more informed and engaged public."
Asian American communities use grassroots digital media to provide trustworthy in-language information amid rampant disinformation. A Vietnamese American YouTube influencer, TNP (Trần Nhật Phong), offers English-source interpretations for the Vietnamese diaspora, uploads multiple daily videos, and presents partial accounts, for example framing Gaza solidarity activists as "communists" and equating calls for peace with wartime violence. Grassroots immigrant organizations are developing diasporic community media journalism (DCMJ) to build a more informed, engaged public. DCMJ operates locally and transnationally to connect diasporic communities and to encourage political participation through elections, advocacy, social movements, and everyday conversations.
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