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DESCRIPTION:Virtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in Englis
 h)\n	Please register on Eventbrite. \n\nDr. Catherine Knight Steele will sp
 eak about her book Digital Black Feminism. This will be followed by a Q an
 d A.\n	\n	Dr. Catherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communica
 tion at the University of Maryland - College Park where she serves as the 
 Director of the Black Communication and Technology Lab\, which is funded b
 y the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and part of the DISCO Network. Her resea
 rch focus is race\, gender and media with specific focus on Black culture 
 and discourse and digital communication.\n\nDr. Steele's book\, Digital Bl
 ack Feminism builds on her decade-long research into the Black blogosphere
  of the early 2000s as sites which replicated features of black oral cultu
 re in order to engage in political discourse in seemingly apolitical space
 s. Digital Black Feminism considers the ‘magic’ of Black women\, operating
  in digital spaces in ways that far surpass the possibilities that were im
 agined for them. Black women's technological capability and intentional di
 scourses of resistance drafted online are predicated upon their historical
 ly unique position of having to exist in multiple worlds\, manipulate mult
 iple technologies\, and maximize their resources for survival in a system 
 created to keep them from thriving. Through close readings of texts on blo
 gs\, Twitter\, and Instagram and in analysis of content and form\, she dem
 onstrates how the use of online technology by Black feminist thinkers has 
 changed the outcome of Black feminist writing and simultaneously has chang
 ed the technologies themselves. More recently she has explored the interwo
 ven concepts of resistance\, joy\, and death as found in discourses of Bla
 ck communities on TikTok and Instagram. Her work has appeared such journal
 s as Social Media + Society\, Television and New Media\, Information\, Com
 munication and Society and Feminist Media Studies.\n\nDr. Steele was the f
 ounding director of the first African American Digital Humanities Initiati
 ve (Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Cu
 lture: An integrated research and training model). Funded by the Andrew W.
  Mellon Foundation\, AADHum 1 fostered research\, education and training a
 t the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies\, a
 nd prepared a diverse community of scholars and students whose work has br
 oadened the reach of the digital humanities in African American history an
 d cultural studies\, and enriched humanities research with new methods\, a
 rchives and tools.\n\nThis event is part of the 4th Season of the Feminist
  and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Wor
 kshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n\nOur series was made possi
 ble thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\,
  and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiative for Ind
 igenous Futures\, MILA\, Dean of Arts Grant\, ReQEF\, and more (see our we
 bsite!)\n\nThere is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide 
 professional captions in english. This event will NOT be recorded and NOT 
 bemade available on our website after the event. However\, you can watch o
 ther past events here.\n
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SUMMARY:Dr. Catherine Knight Steele on Digital Black Feminism
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