Hyperconnected Black Youth: Epistemic Resistance and Insurgent Pedagogies in Digital Spaces
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This article examines how hyperconnected Black youth reconfigure communication dynamics on digital platforms, challenging algorithmic exclusion and producing strategies of epistemic resistance. Through a qualitative and critical approach grounded in decolonial theories and Afrodiasporic studies, we analyze cultural, aesthetic, and pedagogical practices that emerge as counterpoints to digital coloniality. Findings reveal both the persistence of racialized invisibility mechanisms and the power of initiatives like cyber-quilombos and independent Black media in constructing alternative ecologies of knowledge and visibility. The study concludes that these practices not only denounce asymmetries but also propose new techno-social paradigms rooted in cognitive justice and ancestrality.
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