Digital Projects
Check out some of my Black digital humanities projects.
Breonna Taylor Mural Memorial Project
The Breonna Taylor Mural Memorial Project (BTMMP) is a digital storytelling project that maps and documents murals honoring Breonna Taylor within the neighborhoods where they appear. I began this project during field research in June 2024, documenting murals dedicated to Taylor across several U.S. cities. Currently, the Breonna Taylor Mural StoryMap features eight murals located in Louisville, Denver, Annapolis, and Chicago. The storymap uses interactive media, including photographs, drone footage, and videos that I captured. Each mural in the story map also includes a narrative about its background from local radio stations, city tourism information sites, government websites, news channels, nonprofit organizations, and artists' social media posts.
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.