TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brock,André L.
TI  - Distributed blackness: African American cybercultures 
T2  - Critical Cultural Communication Ser.
SN  - 9781479811908
AV  - P94 .D578 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African Americans and mass media
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Communication
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - '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
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