How can communities creatively adapt and reshape online practices to forge resilient digital publics?
In episode 162 of Imagine Otherwise, I interview media studies scholar Raven Maragh-Lloyd about the historical contours of Black digital resistance.
The Ideas on Fire team was honored to work with Raven on her new book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age, which is an insightful analysis of how Black technology users adapt and reshape resistance strategies and forge Black publics in the digital age. The book is out now from the University of California Press.
In our conversation, Raven and I chat about how digital resistance is best understood as a creative process rather than just an outcome of digital practices and how Black communities create and sustain that process across time periods and platforms.
We dive into a bunch of different examples, from Instagram archiving around Juneteenth and Black women’s online networks of care to the politics of cancel culture and where the migration of Black Twitter in the wake of the platform’s demise.
The episode concludes with Raven’s vision for critical hopefulness in digital spaces, a critical hopefulness that reckons with the violences of the past and forges more just futures.
You can listen to the episode in the player above or on your favorite podcast app. And be sure to check out the teaching guide and transcript in the episode show notes over on the Ideas on Fire website.
Cite this episode: Hannabach, Cathy (host). “Raven Maragh-Lloyd on Black Networked Resistance.” Imagine Otherwise. August 23, 2024. Produced by Cathy Hannabach and Ideas on Fire. Podcast. 19:51.
