Distributed Blackness : African American Cybercultures /

Distributed Blackness : African American Cybercultures /

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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...

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Main Author: Brock, Andre L., Jr (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online social networks.
Internet > Social aspects.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans > Communication.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global).
Noirs americains > Communication.
Reseaux sociaux (Internet) > États-Unis.
Internet > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 21e siecle.
Noirs americains et medias.
Online social networks > United States.
Internet > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century.
United States.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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