MIT MLK Scholar Presentation "Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Digital Streets" by Visiting Professor Jabari Evans

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What can hip-hop teach us about building more participatory and equitable media futures? Drawing from ethnographic research, creative practice, and community-engaged scholarship, JabariEvans examines hip-hop as a form of civic media through which urban communities create knowledge, build networks, and make themselves visible. He connects these practices to emerging questions about digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and the “clout economy,” asking whose voices, values, and cultural practices will shape the technologies of tomorrow.