November 20, 2023 • 74 mins
Black cyberculture often revolves around persecution, appropriation, resistance, and the like. Then there's #BlackTwitter - a space for Black joy to originate, participate, and conversate. In this Blackity Black episode, T chops it up with scholar and award-winning author, André Brock. Topics of converstaion include, #BlackTwitter as the world’s largest Black group chat, understanding Black technoculture and cyberstudies, Black female identity online and research on Black collectives in both digital and physical spaces, Coach Deion Sanders and "The Prime Effect" and disparities of Black excellence between HBCU and general Black culture.
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- Follow André Brock on Twitter/X @docdre
- Website
- Download Distributed Blackness: African American Cyberstudies
- Read the article: From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation
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