DISCO Network Labs

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    Digital Afterworlds Lab

    LED BY LISA NAKAMURA

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  • Humanity and Technoscience (HaT) Lab Logo. A black continuous line forms the letter "H" with two loops at the center.

    Humanity and Technoscience (HAT) Lab

    LED BY RAYVON FOUCHÉ

    The Humanity and Technoscience Lab aims to create a collaborative space for researchers from diverse cultural backgrounds and scholarly disciplines to examine how science and technology impact and interact with humanity. We study the material implications–the histories, the politics, and the uses–of science and technology to produce research that explains the ways past, present, and future societies shape and are influenced by our world’s technoscience.

    Our mission is to provide the public with the information, resources, and tools necessary to make informed decisions about how we treat others, how we live in this world, and how to contribute to society. To this end, our research focuses on producing critical and responsive scholarship that documents and explains the connections between people, technology, and science.

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    Digital Accessible Futures (DAF) Lab

    LED BY REMI YERGEAU

    The Digital Accessible Futures Lab is an interdisciplinary research and co-mentoring collective that centers crip wisdom, neuroqueer futures, and disability liberation in its engagement with the digital.

    Our collective and individual work examines pressing issues at the intersections of disability justice, techno-ableism, anti-racist praxis, and crip joy. We seek to dismantle ableist infrastructures in our everyday work. We root our practice in collective care and the deep learning that attends lived experience of disability. We join those who’ve come before us in imagining just crip futures.

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    Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab

    LED BY CATHERINE KNIGHT STEELE

    The BCaT Lab at the University of Maryland enlivens a new generation of scholars focusing on Black studies and cultural production, digital humanities, and critical race work, creating a prototype for recruiting and sustaining a new generation of scholars in digital studies.

    We introduce undergraduates to digital research through workshops and coursework, helps students navigate graduate research, and creates a mentoring network for students and faculty to navigate Black digital studies within the humanities, focusing on collaboration across generations. We model a cohort approach that offers support in recruitment, training, and mentoring.

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