Digital IDEAS 2021 Recap
*Transcript cleaned by Kaitlyn Gastineau
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when we're looking at the role of the
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digital itself taking it seriously in
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terms of its genres formats the shape of
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the screen the cost of the device who
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made the device all these things that
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I'm going to call below the water line
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meaning they don't appear
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in many
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earlier studies because they lead
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inevitably to women and people of color
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how much more generative would we be if
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we didn't have to have spent the last 15
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years of this just like proving to
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people that Black folks are online are
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proving to folks that we have capacities
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and so that provocation to me lends
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itself well to this other way of
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conceptualizing our work these different
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this different way of asking
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questions that doesn't begin in deviance
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that doesn't begin in like
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proving ourselves Black folk have made
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the Internet a Black space whose
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contours have become visible through
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sociality and distributed digital
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practice one of my followers called this
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the Black Twitter stimulus package
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right while decentering whiteness as the
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default internet identity what does it
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mean if we think about Black innovation
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not as the creation of new
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commercialized technoscientific gadget
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to
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exploit Blackness but using
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technoscientific infrastructure to
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support the same Black lives
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how do we get to that space
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of support whether it relies on the
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systemic or not and how do we get
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outside of that space of commerce it
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like relies on black cool
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it wants us to go back into this idea of
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the commercial and what we can purchase
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and buy and get
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versus how we support each other and
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what we're actually like the pathways
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we're actually trying to make that are
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not only the facade of success but
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defining successes
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for and within ourselves thinking about
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these webs and networks of care
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among communities
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how might we indoctrinate bots in the
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ways of cultures
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what might it mean to rather punily
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disable mental health bots and what
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models might we reimagine for online
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peer support communities
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