{"id":3401,"date":"2024-09-26T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2024-10-04T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T13:50:23","slug":"refusing-resistance-in-black-media-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Refusing Resistance in Black Media Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This dialogue features two pioneers of Black digital studies\u2014 Dr. Kishonna L. Gray, whose scholarship asks, \u201cHow are we creating and curating community?,\u201d and fellow gaming scholar Dr. Andr\u00e9 Brock, who describes himself as an \u201cautodidactic Black information studies\u201d scholar who is \u201cintentionally and openly Black in [his] scholarship\u2026epistemology and\u2026 methodology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI never see myself as an activist. What i see myself is speaking blackness into existence. Not begging to be seen, but saying hey we\u2019ve been here, we\u2019ve been doing this stuff, and if you look to this new field of the digitial you can see ways that we have already asserted ourselves in ways that are specific to our history, to our tradition, and our joy\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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