Dr. André Brock, Jr "Distributed Blackness"

May 12, 2020

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Dr. André Brock Jr, author of Distributed Blackness, discusses how issues of race and ethnicity are inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States and how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity.

This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.

Dr. André Brock, Jr is the author of Distributed Blackness and an Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.

Josh Chapdelaine is the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.

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Credits

Produced by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine

Audio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine