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It was my pleasure to give a keynote at the Library Research Seminar VII event last week in Columbia, South Carolina. This event is sponsored by the American Library Association's Library Research Roundtable (LRRT), and was a really generative and generous space to brainstorm about research with LIS students, practitioners, and scholars of all kinds.
A big thank you to all who planned and executed this event, and much gratitude for inviting me to come share ideas with this warm community!

November is coming to a close (rapidly!), and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the wonderful opportunities that I had this month.

Firstly, ​I was so pleased to be invited to Texas State University to participate in the Philosophy Dialogues hosted by the Department of Philosophy.  I had a wonderful time meeting everyone and presenting my talk, "Encoding race, decoding culture: Emoji as technoculture." I can't say enough about the generosity of my hosts and the welcoming nature of the department and campus community.  

Secondly, I attended the 2018 annual meeting of the Southern Historical Society in Birmingham, Alabama. I was invited to respond to a panel on Segregation and Public Libraries.  Akilah Nosakhere presided, with excellent presentations from Steven Knowlton, Matthew Griffis, and Shane Hand.  Fellow responder, Kerrie Cotten Williams, and I offered some comments and provocations to close the panel.  The panelists presented really thoughtful historical projects, generating interesting conversation from the crowd and fellow participants. It was a pleasure to be invited to take part in this event. My full response, "Segregated Libraries, Then and Now," is now available online. 

I just returned from the 2018 annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Montréal, Québec. I believe this was the largest AoIR conference yet, and it was exciting to see so many new faces join the ranks of folks researching the internet and the digital. 

It was a real pleasure to be a part of the Experimental Session, Digital Critical Race Mixtape with Catherine Knight Steele, Sarah Florini, Kishonna Gray, and André Brock (who couldn't be there with us, but was there in spirit!). We appreciated the support,  attendance, and participation of the audience who came to collaborate with us! (Shout out to Adam J. Banks for his book Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age that inspired the theoretical framework for our session.) This session was a highlight for me and really captured the joy of thinking with/in community with fellow scholars whom I respect so much. 

It was a wonderful conference, and I look forward to catching up with everyone again soon!