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Fear of a BlackPlanet.com ft. André Brock
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jan 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
André Brock, professor and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, popped by the show to talk about the origins of Black Twitter, the importance of writing about digital subcultures as they’re developing, digital whiteflight, and the first Black social networking site, BlackPlanet.com.Find André’s work here and on Twitter here.Articles referenced:How Black people use Twitter, Farhad ManjooYou Can Tweet Like This, Or You Can Tweet Like That, Or You Can Tweet Like Us, Post BourgieWhat Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?, Choire SichaMicah’s “Black people on Twitter” theory, Nick DouglasFrom the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation, André Brock…and the research on Black Twitter conducted by Deen Freelon, Meredith Clark, and Charleton McIlwain
Released:
Jan 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (49)
Mini-sode: The Tokenization of Everything ft. Meta-Nomad: Meta-Nomad, the host of another one of my favorite podcasts, Hermitix, and I talk about cyclical backlashes, the frontiersmen of the Metaverse, walking the walk, and the importance of starting a garden. I cut this one a little short because towards the end, it got a little inside baseball and we went on a long tangent about a specific book. Initially, I was planning on this being released in written format, but was pleasantly surprised that the audio quality wasn't too too bad. Theme: Telekon by Gary Numan Listen to Hermitix: https://www.patreon.com/hermitix by The Computer Room