What ways does black digital practice generate new possibilities and new futures for existing on this planet (and beyond)? This talk explores Black digital practice as a social media engagement bridging past, present and future of Black life and as a radical affront to the enclosures of the modern world.
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Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is also the Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure. Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora. She is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020). Most recently, Johnson signed a two-book deal with the Liveright, an imprint of W. W. Norton, to publish a non-fiction monograph examining Black women's engagement with history of slavery and how that engagement appears and reappears in digital and social media; and a history of Black researchers and the first generation of Black people freed from slavery in the United States.
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Dr. Michael Williams is Assistant Professor of Educational Professions at Frostburg State University. His research investigates how Black men make sense of their masculine and racialized identity through Twitter. His dissertation, #AmIManEnough: Black Male Masculine Identity Development in The Digital Landscape of Twitter, was a finalist for Dissertation of the Year with ACPA, and Dr. Williams was a presenter at the Asa G. Hilliard III and Barbara A. Sizemore Research Course on African Americans in Education.
