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Author Brock, André L., Jr., author.

Title Distributed blackness : African American cybercultures / André Brock Jr.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (221 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Critical Cultural Communication Ser. ; v. 9
Critical cultural communication.
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. 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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Subject African Americans and mass media.
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Internet -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States.
Online social networks -- United States.
Internet -- Social aspects.
African Americans -- Communication.
African Americans -- Communication.
Online social networks.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global).
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Print version: Brock, André, Jr. Distributed Blackness : African American Cybercultures. New York : New York University Press, ©2020 9781479820375
ISBN 1479811904
9781479811908 (electronic book)

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