TreAndrea Russworm’s speech on race, technology and the problem of recognition for black lives matter was split up into 4 points starting with what she called recognition and representation talking about black people and specifically black women in films. she bases her points off of Hegelian recognition pointing out that recognizing specific points of that person means there going to base judgment solely for that reason. Black women in films are often stereotyped as evil and even not recognizing their own offspring and other rituals that are represented through films. Out of this people will either always feel empathy for the person or and understanding (spectating or relating)

she then goes on to hashtags, data sets, and black subjectivity which focuses on actions making them noticeable. The idea “I don’t want to be a hashtag” was brought up to represent that black people don’t want to be failed recognition, to only to be represented as another number on the death count.

Her third point is on black death as viral. Only the most potent videos are the ones that go viral that are picked by the media. From this what Russworm calls a new “online Jim Crowe” was introduced with lawers distorting the information that was taken from the video to place blame back on the black life.

Her last point was on gaming representation. she introduced biometric blackness and used the new NBA2k17 as an example of black people giving out their facial feature to whoever collects that data.

These are some of the points taken from her lecture about race, technology and the problem of recognition.