Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part post featuring the fourth interview in a multi-part series with participants in the Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Conference. The series features public intellectuals discussing digital literacy issues.
Jessica Marie Johnson
Jessica Marie Johnson is one of the country’s leading scholars on black code literacy. I’ve had the privilege of teaching with her at the Digital Humanities Summer Research Institute. At the conference my campus organized, she recently gave a thought-provoking and inspiring keynote address.
Professor Johnson’s own digital literacy story started early: “I have what feels now like an ancient picture of myself sitting in front of an IBM desktop computer in grammar school. I must have been in seventh grade. I can still remember the beeps and scratches the computer made before signing me onto AOL and I remember collecting MIDI files to customize the notification sounds my AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) produced.”
Tags: Coding • digital learning • Digital Literacy • equity