Digital Projects
Check out some of my Black digital humanities projects.
Breonna Taylor Mural Memorial Project
The Breonna Taylor Mural Memorial Project (BTMMP) features murals of Breonna Taylor in local neighborhoods. This mural archive was created by Alisa Hardy, a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, who conducted ethnographic research of seven murals dedicated to Taylor in June of 2024. Murals in the BTMMP are located in Louisville, Denver, Annapolis, and Chicago communities. This story map uses interactive media, including photographs, drone footage and videos of each mural captured by Hardy herself as part of her dissertation project. Each mural in the story map also includes a narrative regarding its background from the local radio stations, city tourism information sites, governments websites, news channels, nonprofit organizations, and social media posts from the artists.
Black Digital Migration Project
In this project, the Black Communication and Technology Lab (BCaT) Team writes about digital methods for studying changing affordances, through Elon Musk's removal of free access to data on Twitter (now X) application program interface, that made automated data collection temporarily inaccessible. Our collaborative project illustrates our adaptive manual data collection process, data storytelling techniques, and findings on digital migration across the African diaspora on Twitter. This project was created by Dr. Rianna Walcott, Alisa Hardy, Abigail Rosario, Andrew Mohammed, and Tynesha McCullers.