Distributed Blackness : African American Cybercultures / André Brock Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Cultural Communication Ser ; v. 9 | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781479811908
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 'Distributed Blackness' places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andre 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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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.

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'Distributed Blackness' places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andre 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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