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Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses […]
To date, most inquiries into race and cyberspace have focused on the “digital divide” – whether racial minorities have access to advanced computing-communication technologies. This paper asks a more fundamental […]
This paper examines Native Americans’ self-representation on tribally maintained web sites. To investigate the motivation for the selection of one representative image over another; the content and expected audience of […]
This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to real communities lived out in today’s societies. Issues such as race, gender, power, economics […]
Design is key to our collective liberation, but most design processes today reproduce inequalities structured by what Black feminist scholars call the matrix of domination. Sasha will talk about Design […]
The aim of this paper is to use cultural and technical capital as a sensitizing framework for exploring novel ways of thinking about information and communication technology and social inequalities. […]
Algorithmic discrimination has become one of the critical points in the discussion about the consequences of an intensively datafied world. While many scholars addAlgorithmic discrimination has become one of the […]
Nakamura argues that ‘race happens’ in cyberspace, and in her book a savvy racial analysis is what’s on the menu. With attention to presences, absences, identities, subjectivities, ideologies, and practices […]
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. The open access edition of this book was made possible […]
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. The open access edition of this book was made […]
A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they […]