Research · Deyner Caicedo Camacho

Research

My research interests center on communication, violence, race, and power, particularly in relation to Black communities in Colombia and Latin America. I am interested in how language, memory, and everyday communicative practices shape the ways communities make sense of violence, negotiate power, and sustain collective life.

My developing work also explores the intersections of these questions with digital technologies and artificial intelligence, including the possibilities of community-centered approaches informed by Ubuntu and other relational traditions of thought.

Interests

Communication
Violence
Race
Power
Territory
Memory
Language
Culture
Black and Afro-diasporic communities
Digital technologies and artificial intelligence

Projects

Undergraduate thesis · Universidad Icesi

Community-based organizations led by Black women in the Colombian Pacific

My undergraduate thesis examined community-based organizations led by Black women in Colombia’s Pacific region. Combining qualitative research with social network analysis, it studied the relationships between organizations, the collective practices they share, and the ways those practices sustain territory and forms of resistance.

Methods: Qualitative research; social network analysis
Focus: Relationships between organizations, collective practices, territory, resistance
Program: B.A. in Communication, concentration in Society and Culture

Read the thesis · Universidad Icesi repository (opens in a new tab)

In progress

Doctoral research

Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Doctoral work in Communication that builds on the questions above.

Affiliation

Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech)

Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst

GloTech is an interdisciplinary lab working at the intersection of critical technology studies and global studies. Its research addresses digital inequalities, the geopolitics of technology, and the uses of technology for healing and resilience, combining critical qualitative and computational methods in transnational, justice-oriented work.

Lab websiteglotechlab.net (opens in a new tab)
University pageGloTech at UMass Amherst (opens in a new tab)

Earlier settings

Research supportCITRADI, Universidad Icesi: Research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Center for Digital Transformation: data analysis, systematic organization of information, technical writing, and monitoring of projects on emerging technologies and digital processes.; CITRADI (opens in a new tab) Universidad Icesi (opens in a new tab)
Editorial workCEAF, Universidad Icesi: Editorial and communication support at the Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos, including editorial assistance and style review for Estudios Afrocolombianos: Lecturas Esenciales, a collaborative CEAF–ALARI publication.; CEAF (opens in a new tab) Lecturas Esenciales (opens in a new tab)
Professional collaborationALARI, Harvard University: Visual communication and editorial design for the IV Encuentro Continental de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos (Cali, 2026).; ALARI (opens in a new tab) IV Encuentro Continental (opens in a new tab)