Dear CITAMS, I am very excited to invite you all to attend an event, White Surveillance and Black Digital Publics at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (via zoom of course) at noon on Tuesday, February 2. Register here <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/white-surveillance-and-black-digital-publics>. We will touch on the findings from my published paper "Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack with Becky and Karen <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120981047>" published in *Social Media + Society*. The research has also been covered in Time Magazine <https://time.com/5857023/karen-meme-history-meaning/>, The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/27/karen-race-white-women-black-americans-racism>, on Slate <https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2020/07/decoder-ring-the-karen>, and NPR's On the Media <https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/who-karen-and-why-does-she-keep-calling-police-black-men-on-the-media>. This conversation will further contextualize "casual" surveillance of Black people in public spaces by White supremacists. We will also discuss the development of "Karen laws" as a response to this surveillance and racially motivated calls to police. Lastly, we will position Black digital artifacts (memes, videos, etc.) as liberation technologies. All the best, Apryl Apryl Williams, PhD Assistant Professor | Department of Communication and Media <https://lsa.umich.edu/comm> & the Digital Studies Institute <https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/> | University of Michigan Faculty Associate | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-06/berkman-klein-center-announces-2019-2020-community> | Harvard University