My writing is featured in this month’s The Sociological Review. The theme for the May issue is Digital Social Life.…
An Update: Viva Passed
Where have I been? What I have been up to? What is going on with the Ph.D. This post has all the answers, but first allow me to reintroduce myself – Dr. Kui Kihoro Mackay.
Presentation: #BlackJoy as Radical Resistance
The last face-to-face event I spoke at was the Digital Activism event organised by the Digital Organisation and Society (DOS) Research Centre…
#BroOcholla and The Commodification of Faux Pax
As a WhatsApp group message turned Twitter trending topic, #BroOcholla exemplifies those moments that call in to question the existence of separate online and offline spaces. It also raises questions regarding how public and private spaces are understood and negotiated.
From MSc to PhD
It really has been a while since I wrote here and a lot has happened. I completed the MSc and…
Starting my fieldwork
I had to hold off on this blog for a little while as I awaited feedback and had all my…
Black Twitter: My research questions and a working title
My dissertation proposal has finally been submitted, supervisor and advisor allocated and now just waiting for feedback – so of…
Monday Link Round Up: Rethinking Intersectionality, Politics of #Selfies, Racial difference in parental concerns about online safety and more…
Monday Link Round Up: Rethinking Intersectionality, Politics of #Selfies, Racial difference in parental concerns about online safety and more…
Who said what, when about Black Twitter Part 1 – 2009-2012
A list of online non peer reviewed sources talking about Black Twitter between 2009-2012.
ThugNotes Subtext: Coded Racism?
YouTube channel ThugNotes aims to provide classical literary criticism and analysis in an Original Gangsta style but does it have to be through the performance of blackness that relies on stereotypes of black male intellect and masculinity?
Digital Race 