Storytelling as Art and Intervention
Using Participatory Design to Develop an Antiracist Virtual Reality Experience
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Dr. Eschmann’s research investigates the social meaning of race in the digital age.
Selected Publications
Research-Driven Storytelling
Storytelling for Social Change
Using emerging technology to develop antioppressive social work training and practice
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Digital Resistance
How Online Communication Facilitates Responses to Racial Microaggressions
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Tweeting Toward Transformation
Prison Abolition and Criminal Justice Reform in 140 Characters
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Bigger Than Sports
Identity politics, Colin Kaepernick, and concession making in #BoycottNike
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Making a Microaggression
Using big data and qualitative analysis to map the reproduction and disruption of microaggressions through social media
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What’s a Threat on Social Media?
How Black and Latino Chicago Young Men Define and Navigate Threats Online
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Context Matters
Testing differential effects of racial microaggressions by environmental context on depression
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The Digital Race Lab
Our research aims to:
Investigate the ways technology and digital media change the ways people talk about and experience race and racism.
Measure the impacts of online racial discourse on communities of Color and society.
Highlight and promote resistance against racism in both online and face-to-face settings.