{"id":20213,"date":"2017-11-06T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2017-11-04T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T21:27:18","slug":"rethinking-race-and-technology-digital-and-diasporia-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20213","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Race and Technology: Digital and Diasporia Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Reginold Royston<\/strong>, faculty at UW-Madison’s iSchool<\/a> and the Dept. of African Cultural Studies<\/a>, will talk about “Rethinking Race and Technology: Digital and Diasporia Studies” on Thurs., Nov. 9, 2017, from 3:30-4:30pm<\/strong> in UC 259. It’s part of the African American Heritage Lecture Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about Dr. Royston at his public website<\/a>. His dissertation “Re-Assembling Ghana: Diaspora and innovation in the African mediascape<\/a>” is available online via University of California-Berkeley. An abridged version of his chapter, ” At home, online: Affective exchange and the diasporic body in Ghanaian internet video” in the book Migrating the Black body: The African diaspora and visual culture<\/em> is available from his website, and UWW students and faculty\/staff may obtain the book from other UW campus libraries via the free UW Request<\/a> service. Requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays.<\/p>\n

\"coverIf you would like to learn more, Andersen Library may be able to help!<\/strong> Among resources available are books such as Digital diaspora: A race for cyberspace <\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA76.9.C66 E95 2009; preview<\/a> some text at Google Books), the chapter “Redefining “Africa” in the diaspora with new media technologies: The making of AfricaResource.com” in the book The new African diaspora<\/em> (online<\/a> via Project MUSE; preview<\/a> some text at Google Books), and Diasporas in the new media age: Identity, politics, and community<\/em> (online<\/a> via ProQuest EbookCentral); articles including “Performing patriotic citizenship: Zimbabwean diaspora and their online newspaper reading practices<\/a>” (Journal of African Media Studies<\/em>, 2014, vol.6:no.1, pp.91-109, doi:10.1386\/jams.6.1.91_1), “Diaspora, digital media, and death counts: Eritreans and the politics of memorialisation<\/a>” (African Studies<\/em>, 2013, vol.72:no.2, pp.246-264, doi:10.1080\/00020184.2013.812875), and “Rethinking migration in the digital age: Transglocalization and the Somali diaspora<\/a>” (Global Networks<\/em>, 2017, vol.17:no.1, pp.23-46, doi:10.1111\/glob.12127).<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like assistance with finding additional information, please ask a librarian<\/a> (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Reginold Royston, faculty at UW-Madison’s iSchool and the Dept. of African Cultural Studies, will talk about “Rethinking Race and Technology: Digital and Diasporia Studies” on Thurs., Nov. 9, 2017, from 3:30-4:30pm in UC 259. It’s part of the African … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[141,178,353,942],"class_list":["post-20213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-lectures","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions\/20219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}