The Latinx Project at NYU put together an amazing conference on “Digitizing Race: making Latinx in the 21st Century” and I was fortunate to present on a panel moderated by Cristina Beltrán entitled, “Social Media for Social Change.” I shared material from my essay, “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter.”
Guadalupe Madrigal from the University of Michigan spoke about “Undocumented Activist Publics & Hashtag Anti-Detention Campaigns,” Rafael Ramirez Solórzano from UCLA discussed “Notes from the Trail: Blogging Across the South,” and Janel Martinez, who founded aintilatina.com, presented on, “From Tumblr, Twitter to Instagram: How Afro-Latinx Women Power Identity Conversations Online.”
We took a break to take a pic to document how we’re creating the future of digital critical studies! #DigitizingRace pic.twitter.com/GhfoaPt7ze
— LatinxProject (@LatinxProjNYU) March 8, 2019
Now Prof. Elena Machado discusses @Lin_Manuel performance in twitter in first panel on Social Media for Social Change #digitizingRace and how tweets build affective alliances
— LatinxProject (@LatinxProjNYU) March 8, 2019
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