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Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor, and speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. He is an advocate for critical […]
Clarence Okoh is a civil and human rights attorney whose work addresses the impact of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on vulnerable communities. He offers experience as an advocate, researcher, […]
What drives racial minorities to partake in social media activism for racial justice? Answers to this question are vital and urgent, particularly in view of growing anti-Asian hate crimes amid […]
By Weiting Tao, Jo-Yun Li, Yeunjae Lee, Mu HeDISCO Network Co-Principal Investigators Lisa Nakamura, Rayvon Fouché, Remi Yergeau, André Brock, Stephanie Dinkins, and Catherine Knight Steele will come together in a panel discussion to address current trends and […]
Special operation and peace On February 27, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, radio journalist Valerii Nechay returned to St. Petersburg from a trip to the North Caucasus to […]
By Peter GuestHector Beltran presents the phenomena of hacking and the hackathon. It also addresses issues of access and equity in how racialized, gendered, classed, or other marginalized social groups can undertake hacking or how they are treated within hacking spaces.
In this essay, Dr. Gil reflects on his career as a Digital Scholarship Librarian – helping faculty and students navigate advanced forms of computation and engineering in order to do their work – and discusses how his role allows him to assist researchers to take more control of their digital production through mobilized scholarship.
In this interview, Mother Cyborg, a multimedia artist, educator, and organizer based in Detroit, discusses how they use music, performance, DIY publishing, community-organizing tactics, and popular education methods to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency.
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues […]
Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and […]
Topher Sanders covers race, inequality, and the justice system for ProPublica. In 2019, he was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Public Service and won […]