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Invited Talks and Panels: 2017 Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Campus of William and Mary, - Invited Panelist 2017 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood's 8th conference in Washington DC, Media Pre-Conference invited panelist 2017 Black Joy and Resistance: Black Feminist Discourse Online Humanities Lab at American University , Washington DC - Invited Speaker 2017 Badges of Oppression, Positions of Strength: Digital Black Feminist Discourse and the Legacy of Black Women's Technology Use, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University Luncheon Series, Cambridge, Mass - Invited Speaker 2017 Parren Mitchell Symposium "Truth & Lies: Race, Media, and Politics - Speaking Out Loud: Blogs, Music, and TV" at the University of Maryland, College Park - Invited pPanelist 2016 Deviant Black Bodies and Embodied Black feminism in the Blogosphere Digital Dialogues Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities - Invited Speaker 2015 “A Multicultural Mindset for Journalists” - Spring National High School Journalism Convention sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association – Denver, Colorado - Invited Speaker 2015 “Black Women and the Media” Black Women’s Summit – Colorado State University - Invited Speaker Conference Presentations 2017 Deviant black bodies and embodied black feminism in the blogosphere, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL 2016 Beyond Tragedy or Transcendence: Obama, Mixed Race Representation, and the Digital Turn” Obama 2.0 Conference, University of Maryland Baltimore County 2016 Get in Formation: The new rules of engagement for black feminist discourse online Association of Internet Research, Berlin, Germany 2016 The Virtual Beauty Shop: Crafting a Digital Black Feminism in the Blogosphere Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 2015 When the black lives that matter are not our own: Social justice and a digital black feminism (panel organizer) Association of Internet Researchers Conference 16, Phoenix, AZ 2015 Real and imagined boundaries: Building connections between social justice activists and internet researchers (Roundtable organizer) Association of Internet Researchers Conference 16, Phoenix, AZ 2015 Blogging Ferguson: Self-care and the ‘practice of freedom’ for marginalized writers and communities online International Communication Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2014 A different model for academic mentoring: How race, multiplicity, and holism intersect with online social media, with Jenny Korn, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 15, Daegu South Korea 2014 “Classroom Ethics: Social Media”, with Andrea Guzman National Communication Association, Short course, Chicago, IL. 2013 Shaking off the Other: Appropriation of marginalized culture and the Harlem Shake Association of Internet Researchers Conference 14, Denver Colorado 2013 The Virtual Barbershop: The political implications of community discourse online Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2012 In Search of Community: Popular culture driven temporary support communities on SNS Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13 (panel chair), Salford, England 2012 #RIPWhitney: Grieving online and the extension of secondary orality Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13 (panel participant), Salford, England 2012 Protective or Oppressive? Analyzing Death Penalty Framing , with Elycia Taylor and Emilie Luchessi, National Communication Association 2012 conference, Orlando, FL 2012 From tragedy to transcendence: A model of biracial identity in media representation National Communication Association 2012 , Orlando, FL 2010 Worthy of Rescue: Framing poverty in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster” Illinois Communication Collaboration Conference. Champaign, IL. |
Upcoming: Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program’s inaugural conference Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching at UCLA on April 5-6, 2018 - panelist "Defying Death: Black Joy as Resistance Online," 68th Annual ICA conference, “Voices”, Prague, Czech Republic, 24-28 May 2018 |