Critical Intersections Room: Teaching Black Digital Humanities: Making Space in the Age of Big Tech
Event Type
Lightning Talk
Start Date
25-7-2025 1:15 PM
End Date
25-7-2025 2:00 PM
Description
In the age of "Big Tech", where companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple own a joint monopoly over most tech products, tools, and digital interfaces, data by and about Black people are stolen and erased or used in ways that actively target and harm them. In order to defray this, we must create more Black spaces on the Internet, more digital projects centering Black people and Black experiences, and make digital tools and methods for research accessible to Black students and communities. In this talk, I will briefly discuss three approaches to teaching about/with Black Digital Humanities and their value to the larger landscape of critical tech and humanities literacies, applicable to a variety of different classroom levels: a historical approach, a theoretical approach, and a practical approach.
Outcomes
- Participants/listeners will gain a basic understanding of what the Black digital humanities are.
- Participants are able to identify an approach to applying Black digital humanities practice or theory to a classroom setting.
- Participants are able to name at least one benefit of introducing and/or incorporating principles of Black digital humanities in a classroom setting.
Critical Intersections Room: Teaching Black Digital Humanities: Making Space in the Age of Big Tech
In the age of "Big Tech", where companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple own a joint monopoly over most tech products, tools, and digital interfaces, data by and about Black people are stolen and erased or used in ways that actively target and harm them. In order to defray this, we must create more Black spaces on the Internet, more digital projects centering Black people and Black experiences, and make digital tools and methods for research accessible to Black students and communities. In this talk, I will briefly discuss three approaches to teaching about/with Black Digital Humanities and their value to the larger landscape of critical tech and humanities literacies, applicable to a variety of different classroom levels: a historical approach, a theoretical approach, and a practical approach.
Outcomes
- Participants/listeners will gain a basic understanding of what the Black digital humanities are.
- Participants are able to identify an approach to applying Black digital humanities practice or theory to a classroom setting.
- Participants are able to name at least one benefit of introducing and/or incorporating principles of Black digital humanities in a classroom setting.
