More details tbd Group takes place February 3 and 17.

André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech.  He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media.  His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, videogames,  weblogs, and other digital media.  He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American […]

More details tbd Reading Group takes place February 3 and 10.

Performance Dates & Registration Feb 10, 7pm EST Feb 11, 7pm EST Feb 12, 7pm EST Feb 13, 12pm EST Feb 14, 12pm EST Please note: Participants will need Chrome and a laptop or desktop to be able to access the performance (no mobile or iPad access possible). For the best experience, we also recommend […]

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory. He studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research, University College Dublin and the University of Warwick, from which he received his PhD in 2003. He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy […]

The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.

Judging Themselves: Facebook as Extrastate Sovereign (and Why We Should Worry). In this brief and nascent talk (followed by lively collective discussion), Professor Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) will offer an analysis of what Facebook is _really_ up to with its Oversight Board, and what the activation of that body reveals about Facebook’s vision of itself […]

Title for Kishonna's talk is her new book: Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming

Performance Dates & Registration March 13 - tickets and registration here Please note: Participants will need Chrome and a laptop or desktop to be able to access the performance (no mobile or iPad access possible). For the best experience, we also recommend the use of headphones throughout the performance. Description In this time of intense […]

Wendy will be presenting to Ariella Azoulay & Bonnie Honig's class on Modern Culture & Media on Terranova and Ahmed at Brown. Closed to class members only.

Ani Maitra is associate professor of Film and Media Studies at Colgate University. His teaching and research interests span the fields of postcolonial and diaspora media cultures and gender and sexuality studies. His essays have appeared in edited volumes and journals like Camera Obscura, Continuum, differences, Film Quarterly, Jindal Global Law Review and World Records. […]