The DISCO Network envisions an equitable digital future.
News
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Upcoming Events
Technoskepticism Launch Party | February 14, 2025 1:30 - 4:00 PM ET
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Upcoming Publications
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal will be published by Stanford University Press in February 2025.
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Latest Blog Post
Introducing DISCO 2.0: Digital Optimism for the Public Good by Lisa Nakamura and Cherice Chan
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Latest YouTube Video
The DAF Lab hosted a panel on creating accessible conferences. Check out the event recording on our YouTube channel.
Photo Gallery
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![BCaT Field Trip attendees stand and smile in front of the Power of Place exhibit sign]()
BCaT Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
November 20, 2024
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![Lisa Nakamura, Genius Amaraizu, Tara Fickle, Cherice Chan, Michelle Huang, Ray Fouche, and June Mia Macon sitting on chairs in front of a patterned wooden wall, with a table and vase of flowers in the foreground.]()
DISCO JAM #1: Asian Americans and AI
October 25 - 27, 2024
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![Participants sit at a conference table with laptops and food in front of them, and one participant is projected on the wall ahead over Zoom]()
DISCO JAM #1: Asian Americans and AI
October 25 - 27, 2024
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![A crowd of people seated at chairs, looking at panelists sat at a desk. A projection of unreadable yellow and black information hangs behind the,]()
Politics, Movements, and Joy: A Mediation on Black Twitter at the University of Florida
August 29, 2024
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![The postdocs are lined up and posing for a picture. Includes Lida Zeitlin-Wu, Rianna Walcott, David Adelman, Kevin Winstead, Aaron Dial, Brandy Pettijohn, and Huan He]()
DISCO Summit: DISCO Postdoctoral Fellows
June 14-15, 2024
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![All of the staff members lined up and posing. Includes Jess Hill Riggs, Giselle Mills, Raquel Escobar, Jen Eshelman, Sarah Torsch, Ann Smith, Veronica Thomas, Cherice Chan, and Maddie Agne]()
DISCO Summit: DISCO Network and U-M Digital Studies Institute Staff
June 14-15, 2024
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![All DISCO PIs are sat on a stage with projected presentations behind them]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Optimism
June 14, 2024
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![Panelists are sat on a stage with projected presentations behind them. Balloons float off to the side. Mara Mills speaks in a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Frictions
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Catherine Knight Steele speaks into a microphone. Some attendees sat in chairs are pictured.]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Black Feminist Pleasure and Pain Online
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Huan He speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit | Little Memes: Storying Race, Gender, and Disability in the Digital Studies Classroom
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Catherine Knight Steele speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit | Digital Interventions: Recalibrating Optimism Workshop
June 14, 2024
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![DISCO attendees sat at round tables chatting with one another.]()
DISCO Summit | Digital Interventions: Recalibrating Optimism Workshop
June 14, 2024
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![DISCO Summit attendees chat with one another, seated or standing.]()
DISCO Summit Reception
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Michael Bennett speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit: Black Innovation
June 15, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Cezanne Charles speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Possibilities
June 15, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them.]()
DISCO Summit: Majority World Digital Infrastructures
June 15, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Some attendees are pictured seated in front of the stage.]()
DISCO Summit: Legibility and Community in Digital Studies
June 15, 2024
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![David Adelman and Jeff Nagy are seated at a table with laptops. Other fellows are pictured with laptops standing further behind them.]()
DISCO Fellows Writing Retreat in Evanston, IL
May 20-24, 2024
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![DISCO PIs are sat at a long table. Lisa Nakamura is speaking into a microphone.]()
DISCO Network Panel: From There to Here at University of Maryland College Park
May 2, 2024
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![Attendees are seated in chairs and at tables, listening to an unpictured speaker.]()
BCaT Lab Spring Showcase
May 1, 2024
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![DISCO and DSI staff are lined up on stage. Jessica Hill Riggs holds a certificate award.]()
Jessica Hill Riggs, former DISCO Network Program Manager, wins U-M LSA Staff Award
May 9, 2024
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![Tess Carichner, David Adelman, and Remi Yergeau pose for a picture in front of blank TV screens.]()
DAF Lab | Accessing Disability Culture Reception
April 18, 2024
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![Flier features a light blue bakcground with darker blue visual elements swirling around a magnifying glass with a disco ball at the center.]()
Search Engines: Call for Zine Submissions
April 15, 2024
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![DAF Lab members and staff look up at the sky with solar eclipse glasses on.]()
DAF Lab Solar Eclipse Viewing before Multiple Perspectives Conference
April 8, 2024
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![DISCO PIs are seated or standing, giving a presentation. Remi Yergeau speaks into the microphone.]()
DISCO Network Live: Living Between Digital Optimism and Technoskepticism at Northwestern University
April 4, 2024
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![Attendees are seated in front of a projection in a dark room. The projected screen reads "semiosis" on a yellow background.]()
DISCO Network Panel: The Evolution of a Collective at Stony Brook University
February 28 - March 1, 2024
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![Attendees sit in front of panelists, who are presenting from a projected screen.]()
BCaT Lab Presents at Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference at Tulane University
February 15-17, 2024
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![Zoom screens picture all of the DISCO PIs and a few DISCO Fellows.]()
DISCO Network Panel | Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal
December 14, 2023
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![A dark room, Astria Suparak stands by a podium, the projection behind pictures what appears to be an old comic with Uncle Sam.]()
Search Engines: Asian Futures without Asians with Astria Suparak
November 15, 2023
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![Attendees are sat in a room with high ceilings and intermittent columns. The speaker stands on a stage with projections behind them.]()
DSI Esports Symposium | #TechFail: From Intersectional (In)Accessibility to Inclusive Design
November 9-10, 2023
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![All book jam attendees pose for a picture in front of trees.]()
Book Jam 2023 at the Highlights Foundation in the Poconos Mountains, PA
June 12-16, 2023
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![Book jam attendees throw paper airplanes across wooden tables arranged in a rectangle.]()
Book Jam 2023 at the Highlights Foundation in the Poconos Mountains, PA
June 12-16, 2023
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![Book jam attendees sat in a circle at wooden tables.]()
Book Jam 2023 at the Highlights Foundation in the Poconos Mountains, PA
June 12-16, 2023
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![Attendees sit at desks, while someone presents in front of two screens.]()
BCaT Lab Presents on 'Sustaining Community Collaborations' at the University of Maryland
May 8, 2023
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![Attendees sit in front of a screen, at tables with their laptops.]()
BCaT Lab | The Promise of Black Data Storytelling by Dr. Kenton Ramsby
March 31, 2023
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![Huan He's class poses for a picture, lined up in the Archive.]()
Huan He's Race and the Technological Imagination Class U-M Video Game Archive Visit
Spring 2023
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![Fellows sit at a table with their laptops open. Outside the window, there are bare trees.]()
DISCO Network Fellows Writing Retreat at the University of Michigan
December 7-11, 2022
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![Attendees are sat at tables and on couches, chatting.]()
DAF Lab | Disabili-TEA & Neurodiversi-TEA Party
November 10, 2022
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![Attendees are sat at tables, looking at the unpictured speaker.]()
BCaT Applies: Book Manuscript Workshop
November 9, 2022
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![Huan He, Lisa Nakamura, and Michelle Huang are sat at a table, presenting with a screen behind them.]()
DISCO Network Lecture Series | Racial Replication: Michelle N. Huang in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and Huan He
October 20, 2022
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![Lida Zeitlin-Wu, Jess Hill Riggs, and Huan He pose with a disco ball.]()
The DISCO Ball Arrives to the U-M Digital Studies Institute
Fall 2022
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![Attendees are sat at a conference table with laptops and food. Remi Yergeau's dog is in a stroller beside them.]()
Book Jam 2022 in Detroit, MI
June 19-25, 2022
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![Attendees pose in what appears to be a historic building with marble and designed ceilings.]()
Book Jam 2022 in Detroit, MI
June 19-25, 2022
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![Attendees are sat in a conference room, looking at the speakers sat at a long table or standing at a podium. There are large, circular, fluorescent lights overhead.]()
Allied Media Conference: Making Meaningful Digital Content When Everyone’s Exhausted
June 30 – July 3, 2022
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![Zoom tiles show attendees and Catherine Knight Steele.]()
Catherine Knight Steele Book Talk
March 29, 2022
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![Fellows sit at a table with staff members. The windows show large, summery trees.]()
Michigan Hub Fellow Orientation
Summer 2021
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![A large wal reads "STEPHANIE DINKINS ON LOVE & DATA". The text falls diagonally down the, surrounded by yellow blocks.]()
Stephanie Dinkins On Love & Data Exhibit at the University of Michigan
August 27 - October 23, 2021
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![Two walls have projected figures and petal-like shapes. Two people stand in front of the walls, observing.]()
Stephanie Dinkins On Love & Data Exhibit at the University of Michigan
August 27 - October 23, 2021
Our Labs
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Digital Afterworlds Lab
University of Michigan
Lead PI - Lisa Nakamura
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Humanity & Technoscience Lab
Northwestern University
Lead PI - Rayvon Fouché
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Digital Accessible Futures Lab
University of Michigan
Lead PI - M. Remi Yergeau
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Black Communication & Technology Lab
University of Maryland
Lead PI - Catherine Knight Steele