In this talk Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University) considers gendered and racialized currents of digital culture and technology. Focusing on different dimensions of digital delights and disturbances, Sobande explores experiences of digital creativity and collaborations related to Black life in Scotland, Wales, and beyond.
Dr. Francesca Sobande is a writer and reader in digital media studies at Cardiff University. Her work explores the intersections of race, gender, feminism, and popular culture. Her books include Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024), The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, co-authored with Anamik Saha and Gavan Titley (Polity, 2024), and The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Dr. Sobande is co-author/co-dreamer with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022), the free graphic novel and animation Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). She is also co-editor with Akwugo Emejulu of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).