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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).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file
PDF
Series Critical Cultural Communication Ser. ; v. 9
Critical cultural communication.
Note Print version record.
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.
Language In English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.
Subject African Americans and mass media.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Internet -- Social aspects -- United States.
Online social networks -- United States.
African Americans -- Communication.
Noirs américains et médias.
Noirs américains -- Vie intellectuelle -- 21e siècle.
Internet -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet) -- États-Unis.
Noirs américains -- Communication.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
African Americans -- Communication
African Americans and mass media
African Americans -- Intellectual life
Internet -- Social aspects
Online social networks
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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 (electronic bk.)
9781479811908 (electronic bk.)
9781479820375 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1479820377 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781479829965 (paperback ; alk. paper)
147982996X (paperback ; alk. paper)
Standard No. 10.18574/9781479811908 doi
AU@ 000068151528

 
    
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