ABSTRACT
Zoombombing has become increasingly common, with thousands of individual cases reported by journalists and many more cases that were not. Though a very large archive of racist zoombombing events emerged and continues to evolve, people chose to analyze three specific events in order to understand their media ecology: where they come from, how they are executed, and their effects upon targets. The old argument that gamers do not deserve protection from harassment because they are playing “for fun” was always a flawed and discriminatory claim, and certainly no longer holds when everyone’s online spaces are so blurred between “fun” and work. Zoom has become ubiquitous with the workday for many. The Black Students’ Association turned to Zoom in an effort to capture some of the intimacy, feeling of presence, and social solidarity that sustained their students in the midst of the collective isolation.
