REGINOLD ROYSTON Ph.D.
Author of
Pan African Futurism
Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development (Univ. of California Press 2025)
Scholarship and Teaching
Aural Circuits: Soulcraft in Footwork and Azonto
Africa + Podcasting
Code & Power: An Intersectional Analysis of Web Culture
Africa + The Internet — Digital Diasporas
Areas of research:
Civic App development
Community & Technology Engagement
IT infrastructure & media in Africa
Black social media
History and Philosophy of Technology
Online Education
Black Diaspora Studies
Internet Citizenship
Code & Power
LIS 500 is a course that examines race, class and gender in the computing industry and information profession.
This was one of the earliest ethics-driven courses examining the role of bias and design in information technology at a professional school. Students in this course also learn the fundamental basis of online networking (internet protocols), and elementary HTML web design, and database programming via PHP.
The online version of this course uses extensive video chat and collaboration, allowing students of diverse backgrounds and social identities an opportunity to interrogate the power of code together.
An alternative bias test: This walk-through of a student final project, demonstrates an alternative to the Harvard Implicit Bias test, a website that famously uses menus and user-input to predict unconscious racist and sexist behaviors.
