Kadia: The focus of the book is the internet, and how black people are using it. She says that even in tho s environments, there were still spaces where black folk carved out things they could do for themselves. Kadia: While many people understand this explosion of black content online, i argue to have taken off, we need a fresh set of eyes on what's going on.
Paris Marx is joined by André Brock to discuss the history of Black people’s online activity, the internet’s association with whiteness, and what Black Twitter can tell us about the centrality of Black people to digital culture.
André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked digital technologies. You can get if from NYU Press, and it’s available through open access. Follow André on Twitter at @DocDre.
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