The DISCO Network envisions an equitable digital future.
News
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Upcoming Events
Our next events will happen in the 2026 - 2027 academic year! Event details coming soon.
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Latest Publication
Living Online, Writing Together, and Longing for Home | featuring an excerpt of “The Longing for Home” from Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal.
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Latest Blog Post
Event Spotlight | Black Boys and the Future of Technology | by Lauren Brace
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Latest YouTube Video
Watch the recording of our latest Voices in Protest panel discussion, featuring Victoria Copeland, Kim Fernandes, and Shin Yang in conversation with M. Remi Yergeau.
Project & Publication Highlights
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Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal
Published by Stanford University Press in February 2025.
From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies.
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Voices in Protest Panels
DISCO ‘Voices in Protest’ is a series of panels hosted by the DISCO Network and University of Michigan Digital Studies Institute.
Aimed to bring a new perspective to academic scholarship, this programming series invites scholars, public intellectuals, journalists, programmers, and technologists to the University of Michigan campus for public conversations about pressing issues in digital culture and justice. All events are recorded and available on the DISCO Network YouTube channel.
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DISCO JAM Articles
Read the latest articles produced by our DISCO Journal Article Manufacturing Sessions (JAMS) hosted by the HAT Lab.
Articles include “Questioning FemTech: Menstrual Tracking Apps, AI Therapists, and Egg Freezing,” “Stop Fetishizing AI: Learn from What Asian American Women Already Know,” and “To Our Black Boys: You Don’t Need Black Excellence To Be Dope. Being You Is Already Radical,” and more.
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Technoskepticism: An Interview With the Author
A video series of discussions about race and technology made as part of Kevin C. Winstead's AFA 3553: Science, Technology, and Race course developed in collaboration with the PREACH Lab and the DISCO Network.
Photo Gallery
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![Posed photo of Brian J. Chen, Julie Chu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Tara Fickle, Huan He, Grace Hong, Paul Kim, Lisa Nakamura, & K. Ian Shin]()
Book Jam at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada
May 3, 2026 - May 8, 2026
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![Three panelists in person and one virtual on a tv screen on stage]()
Against Surveillance and Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression
March 10, 2026
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![Photo of K. Mar Morgan, Ajanae Willis, Shelby Pumphrey, Kianna M. Middleton, and Kat Stephens-Peace.]()
DISCO JAM #5: Black Disability
March 13 - 15, 2026
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![Screenshot of a video call with four participants.]()
Content Creation and the End of Social Media
February 26, 2026 -
![Jonathon Cropper, Kareem Edouard, John Pasmore, Rayvon Fouché posed on either side of the DISCO and DSI banners]()
Black Boys and the Future of Technology
January 29, 2026
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![Rianna and Maïa Walcott in front of BCaT Lab Black Homeplaces Mural]()
BCaT Lab Mural: Black Homeplaces
December 3, 2025
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![Rayvon Fouché, Nina-Simone Edwards, Ngozi Harrison, Mouray Hutchinson, and Stephanie “DJ” Jones]()
DISCO JAM #4: AI, Technoskepticism, and Black Life
November 12, 2025
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![Four people standing beside a banner with a digital future theme in an indoor setting.]()
Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda
November 6, 2025
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![Zoom window with the four panelists and Remi]()
How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Critique
October 16, 2025
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![A speaker presents at a podium with the title "Into the Rabbit Hole" and a QR code displayed on a large screen. Attendees sit at tables in a dimly lit room.]()
Search Engines Presents: Search History Vol 2 Zine
October 3, 2025
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![4 individuals sitting around a conference table]()
DISCO JAM #3: Feminist Technology
August 2025
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DISCO JAM #2: Black Boys and Technology
July 11 - July 13, 2025
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Building the Indigenous Internet
April 14, 2025
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TikTok, Deep Seek, and the Fear of Chinese Tech in Nationalist Times
March 31, 2025
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Technoskepticism Book Launch Party
February 14, 2025
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![BCaT Field Trip attendees stand and smile in front of the Power of Place exhibit sign]()
BCaT Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
November 20, 2024
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![Lisa Nakamura, Genius Amaraizu, Tara Fickle, Cherice Chan, Michelle Huang, Ray Fouche, and June Mia Macon sitting on chairs in front of a patterned wooden wall, with a table and vase of flowers in the foreground.]()
DISCO JAM #1: Asian Americans and AI
October 25 - 27, 2024
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![Participants sit at a conference table with laptops and food in front of them, and one participant is projected on the wall ahead over Zoom]()
DISCO JAM #1: Asian Americans and AI
October 25 - 27, 2024
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![A crowd of people seated at chairs, looking at panelists sat at a desk. A projection of unreadable yellow and black information hangs behind the,]()
Politics, Movements, and Joy: A Mediation on Black Twitter at the University of Florida
August 29, 2024
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![The postdocs are lined up and posing for a picture. Includes Lida Zeitlin-Wu, Rianna Walcott, David Adelman, Kevin Winstead, Aaron Dial, Brandy Pettijohn, and Huan He]()
DISCO Summit: DISCO Postdoctoral Fellows
June 14-15, 2024
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![All of the staff members lined up and posing. Includes Jess Hill Riggs, Giselle Mills, Raquel Escobar, Jen Eshelman, Sarah Torsch, Ann Smith, Veronica Thomas, Cherice Chan, and Maddie Agne]()
DISCO Summit: DISCO Network and U-M Digital Studies Institute Staff
June 14-15, 2024
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![All DISCO PIs are sat on a stage with projected presentations behind them]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Optimism
June 14, 2024
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![Panelists are sat on a stage with projected presentations behind them. Balloons float off to the side. Mara Mills speaks in a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Frictions
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Catherine Knight Steele speaks into a microphone. Some attendees sat in chairs are pictured.]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Black Feminist Pleasure and Pain Online
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Huan He speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit | Little Memes: Storying Race, Gender, and Disability in the Digital Studies Classroom
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Catherine Knight Steele speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit | Digital Interventions: Recalibrating Optimism Workshop
June 14, 2024
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![DISCO attendees sat at round tables chatting with one another.]()
DISCO Summit | Digital Interventions: Recalibrating Optimism Workshop
June 14, 2024
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![DISCO Summit attendees chat with one another, seated or standing.]()
DISCO Summit Reception
June 14, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Michael Bennett speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit: Black Innovation
June 15, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Cezanne Charles speaks into a microphone.]()
DISCO Summit: Digital Possibilities
June 15, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them.]()
DISCO Summit: Majority World Digital Infrastructures
June 15, 2024
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![All panelists are sat on a stage with a projected presentation behind them. Some attendees are pictured seated in front of the stage.]()
DISCO Summit: Legibility and Community in Digital Studies
June 15, 2024
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![David Adelman and Jeff Nagy are seated at a table with laptops. Other fellows are pictured with laptops standing further behind them.]()
DISCO Fellows Writing Retreat in Evanston, IL
May 20-24, 2024
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![DISCO PIs are sat at a long table. Lisa Nakamura is speaking into a microphone.]()
DISCO Network Panel: From There to Here at University of Maryland College Park
May 2, 2024
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![Attendees are seated in chairs and at tables, listening to an unpictured speaker.]()
BCaT Lab Spring Showcase
May 1, 2024
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![DISCO and DSI staff are lined up on stage. Jessica Hill Riggs holds a certificate award.]()
Jessica Hill Riggs, former DISCO Network Program Manager, wins U-M LSA Staff Award
May 9, 2024
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![Tess Carichner, David Adelman, and Remi Yergeau pose for a picture in front of blank TV screens.]()
DAF Lab | Accessing Disability Culture Reception
April 18, 2024
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![Flier features a light blue bakcground with darker blue visual elements swirling around a magnifying glass with a disco ball at the center.]()
Search Engines: Call for Zine Submissions
April 15, 2024
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![DAF Lab members and staff look up at the sky with solar eclipse glasses on.]()
DAF Lab Solar Eclipse Viewing before Multiple Perspectives Conference
April 8, 2024
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![DISCO PIs are seated or standing, giving a presentation. Remi Yergeau speaks into the microphone.]()
DISCO Network Live: Living Between Digital Optimism and Technoskepticism at Northwestern University
April 4, 2024
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![Attendees are seated in front of a projection in a dark room. The projected screen reads "semiosis" on a yellow background.]()
DISCO Network Panel: The Evolution of a Collective at Stony Brook University
February 28 - March 1, 2024
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![Attendees sit in front of panelists, who are presenting from a projected screen.]()
BCaT Lab Presents at Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference at Tulane University
February 15-17, 2024
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![Zoom screens picture all of the DISCO PIs and a few DISCO Fellows.]()
DISCO Network Panel | Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal
December 14, 2023
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![A dark room, Astria Suparak stands by a podium, the projection behind pictures what appears to be an old comic with Uncle Sam.]()
Search Engines: Asian Futures without Asians with Astria Suparak
November 15, 2023
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![Attendees are sat in a room with high ceilings and intermittent columns. The speaker stands on a stage with projections behind them.]()
DSI Esports Symposium | #TechFail: From Intersectional (In)Accessibility to Inclusive Design
November 9-10, 2023
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![All book jam attendees pose for a picture in front of trees.]()
Book Jam 2023 at the Highlights Foundation in the Poconos Mountains, PA
June 12-16, 2023
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![Book jam attendees throw paper airplanes across wooden tables arranged in a rectangle.]()
Book Jam 2023 at the Highlights Foundation in the Poconos Mountains, PA
June 12-16, 2023
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![Book jam attendees sat in a circle at wooden tables.]()
Book Jam 2023 at the Highlights Foundation in the Poconos Mountains, PA
June 12-16, 2023
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![Attendees sit at desks, while someone presents in front of two screens.]()
BCaT Lab Presents on 'Sustaining Community Collaborations' at the University of Maryland
May 8, 2023
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![Attendees sit in front of a screen, at tables with their laptops.]()
BCaT Lab | The Promise of Black Data Storytelling by Dr. Kenton Ramsby
March 31, 2023
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![Huan He's class poses for a picture, lined up in the Archive.]()
Huan He's Race and the Technological Imagination Class U-M Video Game Archive Visit
Spring 2023
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![Fellows sit at a table with their laptops open. Outside the window, there are bare trees.]()
DISCO Network Fellows Writing Retreat at the University of Michigan
December 7-11, 2022
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![Attendees are sat at tables and on couches, chatting.]()
DAF Lab | Disabili-TEA & Neurodiversi-TEA Party
November 10, 2022
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![Attendees are sat at tables, looking at the unpictured speaker.]()
BCaT Applies: Book Manuscript Workshop
November 9, 2022
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![Huan He, Lisa Nakamura, and Michelle Huang are sat at a table, presenting with a screen behind them.]()
DISCO Network Lecture Series | Racial Replication: Michelle N. Huang in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and Huan He
October 20, 2022
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![Lida Zeitlin-Wu, Jess Hill Riggs, and Huan He pose with a disco ball.]()
The DISCO Ball Arrives to the U-M Digital Studies Institute
Fall 2022
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![Attendees are sat at a conference table with laptops and food. Remi Yergeau's dog is in a stroller beside them.]()
Book Jam 2022 in Detroit, MI
June 19-25, 2022
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![Attendees pose in what appears to be a historic building with marble and designed ceilings.]()
Book Jam 2022 in Detroit, MI
June 19-25, 2022
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![Attendees are sat in a conference room, looking at the speakers sat at a long table or standing at a podium. There are large, circular, fluorescent lights overhead.]()
Allied Media Conference: Making Meaningful Digital Content When Everyone’s Exhausted
June 30 – July 3, 2022
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![Zoom tiles show attendees and Catherine Knight Steele.]()
Catherine Knight Steele Book Talk
March 29, 2022
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![Fellows sit at a table with staff members. The windows show large, summery trees.]()
Michigan Hub Fellow Orientation
Summer 2021
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![A large wal reads "STEPHANIE DINKINS ON LOVE & DATA". The text falls diagonally down the, surrounded by yellow blocks.]()
Stephanie Dinkins On Love & Data Exhibit at the University of Michigan
August 27 - October 23, 2021
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![Two walls have projected figures and petal-like shapes. Two people stand in front of the walls, observing.]()
Stephanie Dinkins On Love & Data Exhibit at the University of Michigan
August 27 - October 23, 2021
