What are technology and new media, and how have Black, Indigenous, and disabled communities worked together to shape the way we think about them? This first toolkit introduces some of the foundational ideas you’ll need to start answering that question.
✦ Key Topics/Concepts
Technology, New Media, Arts and Culture, Access, Intersectionality, Solidarity, Anti-Oppression, Disability Justice, Community Leadership, Black Innovation, Indigenous Knowledge, Relationship-Building, Creative Futures
⌾ Learning Objectives
Re-thinking Technology. Understand how technology includes both simple tools and complex systems, and why it is relevant to everyone—not only those working in tech or new media.
Anti-Oppression Basics. Be introduced to key anti-oppression concepts and begin to see how they relate to technology and new media.
Systems of Power in Tech. Understand how new media (e.g., digital art, websites, apps, and creative platforms) is made by people and shaped by their values, decisions, and access.
Everyday Technology. Explore how new media helps us notice and make sense of the technology that affects our daily lives, including systems that are often invisible but deeply influential.
Community Innovation. Learn how Black, Indigenous, and disabled communities have developed creative, community-based approaches to technology and cultural work in response to injustice and exclusion.
Shared Leadership. Begin to understand why supporting leadership in these communities matters, and how their knowledge and practices help guide more just and creative uses of new media.