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Lilian Olivia Orero is a lawyer and advocate of the High Court of Kenya, specializing in gender, technology, and law, with a particular focus on cybersecurity, women’s online safety, and […]

Danielle Wood is an associate professor in the Program in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and holds a joint appointment in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics & […]

Todd Whitney is a journalist and technologist whose work uses environmental sensing and community-oriented data frameworks to open up climate justice discourses. By building hardware and designing data collection methods, […]

Petra Kuppers is a white, German, queer, disabled, cis woman of size living in the United States, a community performance artist, and a disability culture activist. Her work revolves around […]

Whit Pow is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their work is forthcoming in Camera Obscura and has been published in […]

Stephen J. Neville is a Métis musician and PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. He […]

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Jewell Ruth-Ella Humphrey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a proud alumna of Africana studies at Howard University. […]

Rayvon Fouché holds a joint appointment as professor of communication studies and professor in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrative Marketing Communications. He authored or edited Black Inventors […]

Rianna Walcott is a postdoctoral fellow in the Black Communication and Technology Lab at the University of Maryland, and part of the DISCO Network. Walcott will be joining the Department […]

ABSTRACT Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on October 31, 2022 has left Black Twitter reeling in the wake of over a year of turbulence, with constantly changing affordances rendering the […]

Magally ‘Maga’ Miranda Alcázar is a writer, researcher, educator, and organizer based in Los Angeles. She is a PhD candidate in Chicana/o and Central American studies at UCLA. Her research […]