Distributed Blackness : : African American Cybercultures / / André Brock, Jr.

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Critical Cultural Communication ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 21 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Distributing Blackness: Ayo Technology! Texts, Identities, and Blackness
  • 2. Information Inspirations: The Web Browser as Racial Technology
  • 3. “The Black Purposes of Space Travel”: Black Twitter as Black Technoculture
  • 4. Black Online Discourse, Part 1: Ratchetry and Racism
  • 5. Black Online Discourse, Part 2: Respectability
  • 6. Making a Way out of No Way: Black Cyberculture and the Black Technocultural Matrix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author