This dialogue features two pioneers of Black digital studies— Dr. Kishonna L. Gray, whose scholarship asks, “How are we creating and curating community?,” and fellow gaming scholar Dr. André Brock, who describes himself as an “autodidactic Black information studies” scholar who is “intentionally and openly Black in [his] scholarship…epistemology and… methodology.”
“…their objects of inquiry are jazz, are poetry, are film, are other books in the like. And so that’s Black Media Studies as well. The catch for me is that they’re not technological. You and I have done something different where we’re taking this really fluid, amorphous medium that is computation. I mentioned earlier that it can virtualize and it can simulate. What does that do for us, to us, by us as we enter these particular moments?’