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
Academic Papers
Public Writing
'Soulcraft: Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance' paper theorizing African and diasporic spiritual tech-ethos in Chicago Footwork and Ghanaian AfroBeats music.
Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape. New Media & Society. July 2021. doi: 10.1177/14614448211021032
'Re-Territorializing Twitter: African Moments 2010-2015' 2019 in #Identity: Twitter and the Politics of Representation, eds. Abigail de Kosnik and Keith Feldman.
Interrograting Jena 6 and the Black Blogosphere
Blog post for Maynard Institute of Journalism
'At Home, Online: Digital Embodiment and Affective-Exhcange in Ghanaian Internet Video' abridged, (2017) in Migrating the Black Body, University of Washington Press
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