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Autoethnographic Unfiltered Reflections

Real-time cohort reflections with Dr. kYmberly Keeton, where AACAT-1870 Theory is examined, challenged, and defined through lived experience, community accountability, and cultural memory.

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Unfiltered Responses

This new segment invites you to respond to a question posed to the current cohort. Your feedback should be honest and uncensored—answer openly and with intention.

What does it mean to be digitally fluent as we move toward 2030?

Draw from the principles of AACAT-1870, your readings, and your lived experience in this cohort thus far.

These responses will collectively shape Principle #5.

Cohort II SPRING Feedback

Digital fluency is an ongoing journey involving preservation, access, and questioning whose narratives become visible.
Digital fluency means understanding how information is created and whether we control it or it controls us.
Digital fluency requires critical thinking, ethics, and community accountability.
Digital fluency includes preserving cultural memory and resisting historical erasure.
Digital fluency in archival spaces requires ethical responsibility, discoverability, and care for vulnerable histories.

Vote on Principle #5 Draft Definitions

Draft A

Digital fluency is the practice of exercising agency within digital environments through ethical participation, preservation, accountability, and cultural memory.

Draft B

Digital fluency is agency in action within digital spaces, requiring critical engagement with access, ethics, preservation, and collective memory.

Submit Your Own Definition

Visitors, researchers, archivists, students, and community members are invited to contribute their own working definition of digital fluency as AACAT-1870 Principle #5 continues to evolve.

Cohort & Public Voting Ends June 27, 2026.

Members of the public are invited to participate by voting on the working definitions shaping Principle #5. Voting closes June 27, 2026.

Independent Research + Ethical Use Statement

This digital reflection space is part of an independent scholarly and pedagogical project developed through AACAT-1870 Theory under the direction of Dr. kYmberly Keeton. Responses, reflections, and public contributions are collected for educational, theoretical, and community-engaged research purposes related to digital fluency, cultural memory, archival ethics, and Black archival thought.

Participation in voting and optional public definition submissions is voluntary. Contributors should avoid sharing private, confidential, or personally sensitive information within public response fields. Public submissions may be reviewed, synthesized, quoted, or referenced in future scholarly, pedagogical, creative, digital humanities, or archival work connected to the ongoing development of AACAT-1870 Principle #5.

This project operates as an independent intellectual and community-based initiative and is not affiliated with or representative of any institutional review board unless otherwise formally stated. All efforts are made to engage community voices ethically, responsibly, and with respect for cultural memory, lived experience, and collective accountability.