Building upon an interdisciplinary list of
readings and multimedia sources,
undergraduates at UCLA have designed this website to examine the ways racial formation is embedded in 21
st century technologies, from circuits manufactured on Navajo land to smartphone applications designed by urban day laborers. Areas of focus include the digital divide, labor, cyberfeminism, and the role of social media in contemporary activism. Together, this project foregrounds questions of accessibility and the digital divide in an approach that connects race, space, and the digital.