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In Twitter or Tumblr on March 6, 2015, scores of black Twitter and Tumblr users were taking, uploading, and circulating selfies, intentionally flooding the system with black faces. By noon, […]
As thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the fatal police shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown in the summer of 2014, news […]
This article analyzes the famous Mexican website El Blog del Narco as symptomatic of the type of publicity common in contemporary Mexico and the manner in which violence has structured […]
Introductions sketch the discursive framework for what follows, and what follows immediately are prefatory remarks that speak to my ambivalence about the evolution of digital culture and race. The focus […]
The Data Feminism Reading Group is now over 😿. Each week we had a very joyous and very global group of around 300-400 people join us. It was pretty magical […]
Pundits disagree on the extent to which hip-hop artists have used their celebrity clout to further the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This study adds to a nascent body of research on Black […]
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication […]
How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. Read the full book for free on MIT Press Direct: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10858.001.0001The power of […]
Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century’s most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black […]