[Commlist] Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock Jr. & New York University Press

New publication from New York University Press

*Distributed Blackness***

African American Cybercultures

*André Brock, Jr.***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479829965/distributed-blackness/_**__*

"Distributed Blackness is required reading. No one understands how 
technologies of race and the digital must be framed and reimagined right 
now better than André Brock. This book disrupts and defines the 
tremendous expanse and range of Blackness on the internet, and will make 
anyone who thinks they know the history of the web reconsider. While the 
problems of race and racism on the internet are inescapable, Brock helps 
us re-center joy, power, love, and resistance too."

"A brilliant, theoretically rigorous, witty, joyful, and full-throated 
analysis of black digital culture and infrastructure. Grounded in the 
black intellectual tradition and modeling a new path for digital media 
theory, every page offers important new frameworks and formations for 
understanding how race makes and is made by technology. This is the 
definitive book on Black Twitter."

 From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, /Distributed Blackness/ places 
blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims 
issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of 
contemporary digital culture in the United States. /Distributed 
Blackness/ analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black 
Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital 
media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African 
American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models 
of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close 
reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about 
how “blackness” gets worked out in various technological domains. *__*

As Brock demonstrates, there’s nothing niche or subcultural about 
expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now 
set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on 
critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and 
science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated 
technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs 
about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside 
technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being 
black online now.*__*

**

*André Brock, Jr.*is Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies at 
Georgia Institute of Technology.*__*

With all best wishes,*__*

Combined Academic Publishers

*New York University Press**| Critical Cultural Communication | February 
2020 | 288pp | 9781479829965 | PB | £22.99**

*Price subject to change.

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