Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures

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Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures

Title remainder

African American cybercultures

Statement of responsibility

André Brock, Jr

Creator

• Brock, André L., Jr

Author

• Brock, André L., Jr

Subject

• African Americans -- Communication
• African Americans -- Intellectual life
• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
• African Americans and mass media
• African Americans and mass media
• Internet -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
• Internet -- Social aspects
• Internet -- Social aspects -- United States
• Noirs américains -- Communication
• Noirs américains -- Vie intellectuelle -- 21e siècle
• Noirs américains et médias
• Online social networks
• Online social networks -- United States
• Réseaux sociaux (Internet) -- États-Unis
• United States
• 2000-2099
• African Americans -- Communication

Language

eng

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."--

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• Critical cultural communication

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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Series statement

Critical cultural communication