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**An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet** 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 soc

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Author

André Brock, Jr.

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479811908

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social Sciences, Social_sciences