Black Digital Studies in the Age of Techno-Fascism

The racialized perils of digital technologies bear heavily on the present, from conversations about AI’s impact on ecosystems and scarce water resources to the use of surveillance technologies to suppress dissent and social protest movements. Black populations in the US and abroad have historically been a testing ground for many of the rapid and far-reaching developments we are currently witnessing in the use of digital technologies to curtail freedom and their unequal material impacts on everyday life and resources. This crossdisciplinary research cluster  investigates these concerns from a Black Studies perspective grounded by two crucial questions: What does it mean to be Black in an age of techno-fascism(s)? Relatedly, what lessons do Black experiences of insurgent digitality have to teach others in this ever-changing technological landscape?