Distributed blackness
Subtitle: African American cybercultures
By: André Brock Jr
Series: Critical Cultural Communication Ser -- v. 9; Critical cultural communication
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781479811908
Subjects: African Americans and mass media; African Americans; Intellectual life; Internet; Online social networks; Communication; Noirs américains et médias; Noirs américains; Vie intellectuelle; Aspect social; Réseaux sociaux (Internet); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global); Social aspects
Description: '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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Distributing blackness: ayo technology! texts, identities, and blackness; title: Information inspirations: the web browser as racial technology; title: "The black purposes of space travel": black twitter as black technoculture; title: Back online discourse, part 1: ratchetry and racism; title: Black online discourse, part 2: respectability; title: Making a way out of no way: black cyberculture and the black technocultural matrix; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index; title: About the author.