Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures

From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, '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. 'Distributed Blackness...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : NEW YORK University Press,, 2020.
©2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Critical cultural communication.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 271 pages ):; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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