Research Catalog

Title

Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures / André Brock, Jr.

Author

Brock, André L., Jr.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

ix, 271 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how "blackness" gets worked out in various technological domains. As Brock demonstrates, there's nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now."--

Series Statement

Critical cultural communication

Uniform Title

Critical cultural communication.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• African Americans > Communication
• African Americans and mass media
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century
• Internet > Social aspects > United States
• Online social networks > United States
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• Internet > Social aspects
• Online social networks
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.

Contents

Distributing Blackness: Ayo technology! Texts, identities, and Blackness -- Information inspirations: the web browser as racial technology -- "The Black purposes of space travel": Black Twitter as Black technoculture -- Black online discourse, part 1: ratchetry and racism -- Black online discourse, part 2: respectability -- Making a way out of no way: Black cyberculture and the Black technocultural matrix

Call Number

Sc E 20-500

ISBN

• 9781479820375
• 1479820377
• 9781479829965
• 147982996X

LCCN

2019012037

OCLC

1104854766

Author

Brock, André L., Jr., author.

Title

Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures / André Brock, Jr.

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical cultural communication

Critical cultural communication.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-500