The design fiction entitled, “The Stoop: Speculation on Positive Futures of Black Digital Spaces” was written by myself and Dr. Casey Fiesler for GROUP 2022/2023 and it will be published in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM-HCI). In it, we imagine what a social media platform…

The current state of technology We are fully in the midst of the great techlash. The tech industry’s biggest or most prominent players continue to come up short with society and are found wanting. Social media shortcomings, facial recognition software, black-box algorithms and more are increasingly being exposed to have biases against BIPOC and historically…

This blog post is a summary of the above paper about how people on Twitter who are familiar with Black Twitter are uplifted by the community and what struggles they face as well as how Black Twitter and the Negro Motorist Green Book are similar and different. This paper will…