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Upcoming Events
Black Boys and the Future of Technology | January 29, 2026
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Latest Publication
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (Stanford University Press) is available now.
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Latest Blog Post
Ashley Cordes and Majerle Lister, in conversation with Lisa Nakamura, discuss the importance of Indigenous innovation in our everyday technologies and the process of conducting research in Indigenous communities | by Lauren Brace
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Latest YouTube Video
Watch the third of our VIP public discussions, featuring Beza Merid, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Christa Teston, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise.
Project Highlights
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How the Tech Industry Fails Black Boys and How Community Can Lead the Way
In this article, participants in the Black Boys and Technology DISCO JAM discuss racial disparities of power and privilege in the tech-industrial complex.
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Technoskepticism: An Interview With the Author
A video series of discussions made as part of Kevin C. Winstead's AFA 3553: Science, Technology, and Race course developed in collaboration with the PREACH Lab and the DISCO Network.
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Feminists on FemTech
In this video, participants in the Feminist Technology DISCO JAM discuss feminist approaches to technology.
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What Everyone Can Learn About A.I. From the Asian American Experience
This is an article, written by HAT Lab, that shares four takeaways from four Asian American academics who study race, technology, and society, about AI and the Asian American experience.
Photo Gallery
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![Four people standing beside a banner with a digital future theme in an indoor setting.]()
Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda
November 6, 2025
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![Zoom window with the four panelists and Remi]()
How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Critique
October 16, 2025
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![A speaker presents at a podium with the title "Into the Rabbit Hole" and a QR code displayed on a large screen. Attendees sit at tables in a dimly lit room.]()
Search Engines Presents: Search History Vol 2 Zine
October 3, 2025
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DISCO JAM #2: Black Boys and Technology
July 11 - July 13, 2025
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Building the Indigenous Internet
April 14, 2025
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TikTok, Deep Seek, and the Fear of Chinese Tech in Nationalist Times
March 31, 2025
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Technoskepticism Book Launch Party
February 14, 2025
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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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Stephanie Dinkins On Love & Data Exhibit at the University of Michigan
August 27 - October 23, 2021
