In 1980, Thomas McPhail coined the term ‘electronic colonialism’ to describe how “mass media and internet firms are leading to a new concept of empire.” While social media has given rise to #BLM and #NoDAPL it has also been home to counter discourses. Platforms like Gab or WeSearchr were purposely launched as digital havens of “free speech” for those blocked from the more mainstream sites for their white nationalist and supremacist messages. This may prompt us to ask what kind of racial or racializing space is social media? How does it reproduce or reinvent the notion of empire? And where does our understanding of race in the digital age fit into the history of European colonialism? To answer these questions, this course will read across postcolonial theory and the latest work in digital media studies theorizing race on the internet. And we will directly examine the digital texts, trends, performances, and platforms—like Meta, Instagram, and TikTok—that illustrate these questions to synthesize a theory of coloniality for the digital age.