{"639977":{"#nid":"639977","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA talk by Andr\u0026eacute;\u0026nbsp;Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was written up by \u003Cem\u003ETechnique\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on Sept.\u0026nbsp;27, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrock spoke on Sept. 14 via BlueJeans video call about his\u0026nbsp;book\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDistributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewhich was published in February by New York University Press. He coverede topics such as the use of online spaces to \u0026quot;recover from brutality\u0026quot; and the expression of \u0026quot;Black joy\u0026quot; on social media.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn describing Black techno-culture, Dr. Brock stresses that it needs to include the every-day, the mundane. The discussion of racism doesn\u0026rsquo;t make up all of Black culture, nor should Black culture reflect one subset of itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Social justice activism isn\u0026rsquo;t all of Black discourse. We\u0026rsquo;re not all angry Black Lives Matter gangbangers,\u0026rdquo; he said. Instead, Black digital space is, or should be, a celebration of regular life. Explaining further, Brock said that the \u0026ldquo;white belief in rationalism and logic that excludes Black subjectivity objectifies the world they find themselves in.\u0026rdquo; These platforms should reflect the whole person each user was \u0026ldquo;before the police hailed them over.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe medium of Twitter or the like affords a safe space to recover from brutality and to grow. Online, the space is not limited by in-person racism. Rather, it is a place where each user can freely express a point of view and \u0026ldquo;be a point that is viewed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nique.net\/life\/2020\/09\/27\/distributed-blackness-african-american-cybercultures\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-10-07 15:46:49","changed_gmt":"2020-10-07 15:46:49","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Jinhwan Kim","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nique.net\/life\/2020\/09\/27\/distributed-blackness-african-american-cybercultures\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633100":{"id":"633100","type":"image","title":"Andre Brock","body":null,"created":"1582902681","gmt_created":"2020-02-28 15:11:21","changed":"1582902681","gmt_changed":"2020-02-28 15:11:21","alt":"Andre Brock","file":{"fid":"240903","name":"Brock outside Skiles resized.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brock%20outside%20Skiles%20resized.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brock%20outside%20Skiles%20resized.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":491869,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brock%20outside%20Skiles%20resized.jpg?itok=TNcjwJLP"}}},"media_ids":["633100"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}