THIS FRIDAY 10/29: Black Beyond Data Reading Group October Meeting

The BBD group meets monthly via Zoom on the last Friday of the month to discuss a preselected reading(s) and/ or digital project (s)! Join us!

The Black Beyond Data Reading Group is focused on exploring ideas around community-based data analytics (CBDA), a collaborative approach to data that involves community members in the collection, management, and analysis of data in their communities. The goal of CBDA is to increase knowledge and understanding of social issues that impact a given community and to integrate the knowledge gained with interventions for policy or social change benefiting community members.*

What is data? Data are facts, statistics, and other basic units of information about a people, place, or community. They are the building blocks elected officials, policy-makers, organizers, and educators use to draw conclusions about how a community functions. Data is collected all the time, often without our conscious awareness of it and it could be anything from your birth date on a form to social media likes on Facebook. However, data can be so much more. That’s what we hope to explore in the readings.

The aim of the Black Beyond Data Reading Group is to gather people (researchers, faculty, community activists) who have an interest in Black community-based data analytics to critically research and study social issues to initiate transformative change in Black communities.

The group meets monthly via Zoom on the last Friday to discuss a preselected reading(s) and/ or digital project (s). Please join using the call details below:

This week, we are reading:

Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads,” Social Text 36, no. 4 (137) (December 1, 2018): 57–79, https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658.

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Topic: Black Beyond Data Zoom Room

Time: 12pm, the last friday of every month

Join the Zoom Meeting directly by clicking here or using the information below. Meeting ID: 938 9708 8083 | Passcode: 921458

See you soon!

Lauren Rubin

Kim Gallon

Jessica Marie Johnson