This dialogue features media historian Dr. Jane Rhodes, who tends to “think back as well as forward,” and media sociologist Dr. Herman Gray, who asks a guiding question of Black media studies, “What does Black add to [the] formulation [of Black media studies]?”
“Careful thinking about algorithms show us that consciousness formation is embedded in the very production of how we see ourselves connected to this thing, or don’t understand ourselves. The very urgency, the very necessity to understand how our movements, or how our thinking, or how our aspirations are embedded in these logics—these digital logics, and these representational logics, and these logics of circulation. I think that that has now become central to understanding activism”