{"product_id":"distributed-blackness-9781479820375","title":"Distributed Blackness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, \u003ci\u003eDistributed Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eDistributed Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.             \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"André Brock, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274185322747,"sku":"9781479820375","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_85d11d5b-5c0b-417a-b76a-cdeeb276327e.jpg?v=1771032879","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/distributed-blackness-9781479820375","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}