Our Digital Experiences

Tyler Musgrave, School of Information

Collaborator: Sumaya Kilani

Our Digital Experiences is an animation project leveraging the narratives of Black women and femmes experiences with harm, healing, and joy online collected in the CHI 2022 paper, Experiences of Harm, Healing, and Joy among Black Women and Femmes on Social Media (Musgrave et al. 2022) to:

• reimagine institutionalized scholarship through visual digital storytelling
• advocate for an accountable and safer online experience for Black womenand femmes through visual digital storytelling,
• leverage visual modes of storytellings’ capacity towards dramatization for art/research analysis.
• Guiding Questions include:
• How can visual modes of storytelling (such as animation) enliven the institutions hegemonic practices of documentation?
• How can visual modes of storytelling (such as animation) support the pursuit of accountability
• How can visual modes of storytelling (such as animation) love on Black women and femmes narratives on their experiences online?
• In what ways can visual modes of storytelling (such as animation) capacity toward dramatization be leveraged for analysis?