Intro to Black Digital Studies

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course will introduce the history and contemporary context of Black technological and digital practices, innovation, and integration in everyday life using humanistic frameworks and methodologies. We will interrogate how the digital intersects with archive and memory, social movements, environment impacts/obsolescence, and culture. Special emphasis will be placed on ethical approaches to studying the digital, data collection and analysis, and how systemic issues are replicated and countered by Black digital practice. Throughout this course, we will orient our inquiries around the debates of what constitutes Black Digital Studies.