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May 22

Black Women Own the Future of Tech: Reflections on blackcomputeHER 2023

During the weekend of April 14–17th at Virginia State University, tens of Black women in computing gathered together to share, uplift, commiserate, and future with each other. From higher education, students and professors, to industry members, each of us arrived ready to recharge and regroup in our endeavors to change…

Blackcomputeher

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Black Women Own the Future of Tech
Black Women Own the Future of Tech
Blackcomputeher

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Dec 19, 2022

The Stoop: Best New App for Black People in 2025

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…

Design Fiction

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The Stoop: Best New App for Black People in 2025
The Stoop: Best New App for Black People in 2025
Design Fiction

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Oct 27, 2021

Why Tech Needs a Chaplain

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…

Technology

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Why Tech Needs a Chaplain
Why Tech Needs a Chaplain
Technology

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·Sep 27, 2021

More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter

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…

Cscw2021

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More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter
More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter
Cscw2021

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Shamika Klassen

Shamika Klassen

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Ph. D. Candidate in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder studying tech, ethics, and social justice. https://www.shamikalashawn.com

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