[Air-L] Join us for CCSN Chats April | Archiving the Internet?

[Zoë Glatt]

Hi AoIR!



Please join us for the next CCSN Chats on April 14th (9am PT/12pm ET/4pm GMT), where a wonderful roster of speakers will be exploring the practices and politics of archiving the internet and social media platforms. CCSN Chats is an online series that brings together researchers, industry experts, and workers in the digital economy to discuss timely issues in Creator Studies.



You can book a free ticket HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats-archiving-the-internet-tickets-1286721130539



Meet the voices:



Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (she/her) is a recovering journalist and an associate professor of race and political communication in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Her book We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives was released in 2025.


Camille Lawrence works as an archivist, focusessing on the art history, innovations, and diversity of artistic expression across the African Diaspora. She is most interested in exploring and archiving identity formation throughout the African diaspora and culture through three foundational principles: Oral, Physical, and Ritual. Lawrence's background as an art historian, artist, and beauty practitioner informs her approach to archival work. Her projects include the Black Beauty Archive and contributions to NYU Hemispheric Institute, Urban Bush Women, and BAMDanceAfrica.


Sakyra Abbitt is the National Women’s History Museum's 2025-2026 fellow in digital archives and communications, supporting their efforts to commemorate the U.S. semiquincentennial in 2026, as well as the Museum's role as the exclusive National Resource Partner for Women’s History to the America250 Commission. In this role, Sakyra oversees NWHM's Chronicles of American Women initiative, which seeks to solicit, share, and archive short public biographies of contemporary American women in advance of the semiquincentennial. Sakyra holds a BA in Media Studies and an MA in Media, Culture, and Technology from the University of Virginia, where her research explored the intersections between Blackwomen’s social identities and their representations on reality television. Sakyra currently serves as a research assistant for Archiving the Black Web (AtBW), where she works to complete her digital archival project, “#BlackBookTok: Made by Black Readers for Black Readers.” Her project investigates the need for the collection and preservation of examples of affective labor by Black women within digital spaces. In her project, Black women are positioned at the forefront of literary discussions online as creators of Black intimate storytelling through their own unique digital practices. Sakyra intends to pursue a Ph.D. in Media Studies with a focus on Black digital memory work. In the interim, she will continue to develop her expertise in digital archiving and memory practices, particularly in service of marginalized communities.

Zakiya Collier (she/they) is a Black, southern, queer, disabled archivist and memory worker based in Brooklyn, NY. At the age of six, Zakiya began stewarding the collection of photographs, certificates, artworks, and mementos documenting her life and the lives of her loved ones. She is a member of Shift Collective where she supports communities in collectively developing cultural memory practices and designing sustainable programs to autonomously preserve and share their own stories. Their recent work includes serving as the first Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Project Archivist at Weeksville Heritage Center, Archivist for the visual artist, Marilyn Nance; and Co-Editor of a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice. She is the recipient of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar’s Diverse Voices Fellowship, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York’s Educational Use of Archives Award for the #SchomburgSyllabus and Archival Achievement Award for Linking Lost Jazz Shrines, and an Equity-in-Action Grant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Zakiya is a Certified Archivist through the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA), an affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS), and an Archives Advisory Board Member for the LGBT Community Center National History Archive. They hold a BA in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina, an MLIS from Long Island University, and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.

We hope to see some of you there!

The CCSN Team



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