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Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Technology has been instrumental in allowing audiences to encounter expressions of culture to which they may have no direct connection. The popular commercial platforms like Twitter and Instagram mediate culture, the affordances of each determining how aspects of culture translate on the sites. In his new book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (NYU Press, 2020), Andre Brock, an associate professor at Georgia Tech, theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained. Though considering topics like afro-pessimism and the digital divide, Brock particularly focuses on Black joy – “the embodied cognition where Black people express their relationship to the world through our joy in moving through it.”
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Released:
May 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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