Invited Presentations
“Beyond Hashtags: Critical Research Methods for Digital Humanities.” ACNDigHum. Stanford University, March 24, 2021. (https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/acndh )
“Beyond Hashtags: Digital Media Research and Marginalized Communities,” DH Virtual Hour. IHR Digital Humanities Initiative, July 2, 2020.
“Why Study Podcasting?” Panel participant. Podcast Symposium. University of California-Irvine, October 2018.
“The Black Guy Who Tips and Comedic Social Discourse.” Panel participant. Podcast Symposium. University of California-Irvine, October 2018.
“Oscillating Networked Publics: Black Digital Networks and Political Engagement.” Social Media and Citizenship. Department of Communication, University of Michigan. March 2018.
“Black Users, Enclaves, and Methodological Challenges in a Shifting Digital Landscape.” Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Luncheon Series, Harvard University, December 2017. https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/luncheon/12/Florini
“Oscillating Networked Publics: Contingent Uses of Black Digital Networks.” Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Digital Dialogues Series. University of Maryland October 2017. https://vimeo.com/237632419
“Assembling Collectivity: Subjectivity, Community, And Digital Politics.” Panelist, LSA Bicentennial Symposium for the Digital Future. Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, September 2017.
“Remembering the Past, Understanding the Present: Digital Media and History in the Age of the Black Lives Matter Movement.” Virginia Wesleyan College. February 2016.
“Digital Media and Citizen Journalism in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement.” Junior Faculty Forum. Old Dominion University. February 2015.
“#JusticeForTrayvon: Digital Media Responses to the George Zimmerman Verdict.” Humanities Friday Lunches. Center for the Humanities. University of Wisconsin-Madison. January 2014.
“Disrupting the Past, Reframing the Present: Websites, Alternative Histories, and Petit Récits as Black Nationalist Politics.” Colloquium Series. Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 2012.
Selected Conference Presentations
“Of Memes and Mimicry: Look-Alike Grievances and the Alt-Right Exploitation of “Cancel Culture” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2021.
“Support Ya Own: Independent Black Podcasting and Interstitial Modes of Production.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 2019.
“Black Technoculture as Digital Vanguard.” Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black (conference of the African American Digital Humanities project), University of Maryland, October 2018.
“‘On the Radio’: The Digital Life of African American Audio from Broadcasts to Podcasts” Roundtable participant. Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black (conference of the African American Digital Humanities project), University of Maryland, October 2018.
“Digital Critical Race Mixtape.” Experimental session participant. AoIR 2018 (Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers), Montreal, October 2018.
“Dem Thrones: Enclaving and Cultural Resonance in Black Game of Thrones Fandoms.” International Communication Association, Prague, May 2018.
“Dem Thrones, Y’all: Game of Thrones, Podcast Recaps, and Culturally Resonant Fan Practices.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto, March 2018.
African American and Civil Rights Caucus Roundtable. Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, Washington D.C., November 2017.
“Racialize Users as Digital Vanguard.” International Communication Association, San Diego, May 2017.
“#DemThrones: Enclaving and Cultural Resonance in Game of Thrones Fan Practices.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, April 2016.
“#EarnThisDamnVoteOrLose and #BernieSoBlack: Enclaving, Counter-discourse Production, and Gatekeeping in Black Digital Networks.” AoIR 2016 (Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers), Berlin, October 2016.
“#DemThrones: Enclaving and Cultural Resonance in Game of Thrones Fan Practices.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, April 2016.
“Leveraging Digital Networks for Citizen Journalism: This Week in Blackness Reporting from Ferguson, MO.” Internet Research 16.0 (Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers), October 2015.
“The Podcast Chitlin’ Circuit: Black Podcasters and Audio Enclaves.” Race and Media Conference. University of New Mexico, September 2015.
“Black Podcasters, Alternative Media, and Enclaved Social Spaces.” International Communication Association, May 2015.
“#YourSlipIsShowing: Aggressive Identity Tourism and Black Feminist Networks on Twitter.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2015.
“Black Digital Networks and the Rejection of Respectability.” Race and Media. University of Wisconsin Madison, October 2014.
“Networked Enclaves: Black Podcasters’ Responses to the George Zimmerman Verdict.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2014.
“Transgressive Networks: This Week in Blackness and Resistance through Online Programming.” Internet Research 14.0 (Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers), October 2013.
“In Praise of Small Data: Ethnography in the Age of ‘Big Data’.” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2013.
“Will the Real Black History Please Stand Up?: Cultural Memory as Production and Performance of ‘Blackness’ Online.” Internet Research 12.0 (Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers), October 2011.
“Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’: African American Communication on ‘Black Twitter’.” Digital/Media, Race, Affect, and Labor, April 2011.