The Disability Justice Project
The Disability Justice Project (DJP) trains disabled human rights defenders in documentary storytelling and is the first media platform dedicated to disability rights in global majority nations.
Projects
Center affiliate research projects aim at understanding how to creatively engage with and design emerging media and technologies (including AI, mobile, VR/AR/XR, “smart” technologies and urban infrastructures) that empower and give visibility to marginalized/minoritized communities (including LGBTQIA+, women, youth/children, migrants, BIPOC) and promote sustainable living spaces.
Our interdisciplinary group of core and affiliated faculty employ a mixed methods approach that includes, but is not limited to, critical and interpretive approaches, archives and archaeology, network analysis, experience and co-design, computational methods and visualization techniques to tackle the most pressing sociotechnical issues in contemporary society and cities.
Our research areas are not meant to be exclusive; rather, they represent overlaps, directions, and connections among research interests, with the aim of leading to future collaborations and new research initiatives. Rather than fitting existing research into bubbles, we want to find connecting points.
- Histories and Futures of Emerging Media
- Grassroots Creativity, Play, & Learning
- Health, Access, and Sustainable Media Futures
- Urban Mobilities, Justice & Civic Engagement
- Mapping, Social Networks & Data Justice
- (Mis)Information & News Storytelling
What Works: The Future of Local News
The Future of Local News is an ongoing project that examines the crisis in community journalism, profiling entrepreneurs and thought leaders who are charting the way forward.
Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project
The Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project is a nationwide initiative focused on preserving the histories of Black, Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and queer elders.
Who is responsible for online safety?
As we attempt to move towards genuine shared governance over online media systems, the need for safety is constantly discussed and agreed on as a goal, but....
Generative Persuasion
An interactive installation that invites viewers to generate tailored propaganda and conspiracy theories on a military-style portable computing center using advanced artificial intelligence.
Content Audit Toolkit
We are building a partnership to support local small to midsize newsrooms algorithmically audit their content to check alignment against their mission statements and editorial goals.
Counterdata Network
We’re pioneering new methods to make AI a tool for empowerment hand-in-hand with groups monitoring the news for reports of human rights violations.
XR Ethics for Neurodivergent Children
This project investigates the perspectives of neurodivergent children and adult stakeholders regarding ethical and unethical uses of extended reality (XR) technologies.
Mental Health and Neurodivergence on TikTok
This project concerns the analysis of mental health discourse on TikTok within marginalized populations, with an emphasis on autistic and neurodivergent individuals.
The Retro Mobile Gaming and Technology Project
The Retro Mobile Gaming Database (RMGD) contains a collection of mobile games from 1975 to 2008. This database allows users to search games by multiple search criteria.
Epic Sock Puppet Theater
An interactive installation and research project featuring animatronic sock puppets that perform social media posts from “sock puppet” accounts known to have engaged in disinformation campaigns.