Distributed blackness : African American cybercultures /
Brock, André L., Jr.,
Distributed blackness : African American cybercultures / André Brock Jr. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - Critical Cultural Communication Ser. ; v. 9 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 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 -- Back 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.
'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. It 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.
9781479811908
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans--Intellectual life--21st century.
Internet--Social aspects--United States.
Online social networks--United States.
African Americans--Communication.
Electronic Books.
P94 / .D578 2020
Distributed blackness : African American cybercultures / André Brock Jr. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - Critical Cultural Communication Ser. ; v. 9 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 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 -- Back 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.
'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. It 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.
9781479811908
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans--Intellectual life--21st century.
Internet--Social aspects--United States.
Online social networks--United States.
African Americans--Communication.
Electronic Books.
P94 / .D578 2020