Last night, we were are thrilled to be joined by Catherine Knight Steele, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland USA, Director of the Black Communication and Technology lab (BCaT), and our feature keynote presenter at the DMRC 2025 Summer School.
In her keynote, Lessons from Digital Black Feminism: Against Automation, Toward Joy, Catherine Knight Steele explored how Black women have long shaped critical conversations around technology; challenging white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy through a rich techno cultural history that predates social media. She positioned Black joy as a transformative technology of liberation, highlighting the collective speculative imagination in the face of an increasingly automated digital future. #DMRCSS2025
