Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures Brock Jr Andr
An explanation of the digital practices of the black InternetFrom BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andr Brock Jr. claims…
Specifikacia Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures Brock Jr Andr
An explanation of the digital practices of the black InternetFrom BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andr 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
Distributed Blackness