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Charlton McIlwain is the Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development at New York University. In this role, he advances NYU’s academic excellence by supporting faculty recruitment, retention, and career […]
Maxwell Foxman is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Game Studies at the University of Oregon at the School of Journalism and Communication. His primary research focuses is on how play […]
Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work investigates the relationship between technology, race, and health equity. She is the author of Pleasure in […]
Lucas Wright is a graduate student in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. His research focuses on how online platforms regulate the behavior of users, especially through automated, algorithmic […]
Dr. Michelle Ferrier is the founder of TrollBusters.com, a just-in-time service that helps journalists fight online abuse, and has advocated on behalf of journalists worldwide at the United Nations, SXSW, […]
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. is an associate professor at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the College of Media’s Journalism Department (with affiliate appointments in the Communication and Political Science). Her […]
Nabiha Syed is President of The Markup, a nonprofit media organization that investigates how the powerful use technology to reshape society. Before joining The Markup, Nabiha was vice president and […]
Dr. Wilneida Negrón specializes in developing and scaling new models for people-centered structural and systemic change in the technology sector, capital markets/finance, and labor markets. She most recently worked at […]
Catherine Knight Steele is an educator, researcher, award-winning author, and sought-after speaker specializing in race and media, with a particular emphasis on Black discourse, culture, technology, and social media. As […]
Desmond Upton Patton, associate dean for Innovation and Academic Affairs, founding director of the SAFE Lab and codirector of the Justice, Equity and Technology (JET) Studio at Columbia School of […]
In this review of research on “the digital divide,” Roderic Crooks argues that access to computing in education or in any other domain can only meaningfully contribute to equality when minoritized and racialized communities are allowed to pursue their own collective technological goals.