{"647970":{"#nid":"647970","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Hip Hop Scholar Featured in Google Arts \u0026 Culture\u2019s Atlanta Page","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Joycelyn Wilson is featured in Google\u0026rsquo;s new curated \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/project\/atlanta\u0022\u003EAtlanta arts and culture page\u003C\/a\u003E, which debuts today (June 8). \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/joycelyn-wilson\u0022\u003EWilson\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor of hip hop studies and digital media in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u0026rsquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, wrote the essay on Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s role in the rise of hip hop. The essay anchors the hip-hop section of the new website. Her HipHop2020 Innovation archive is also featured.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is an exciting opportunity to showcase the rich history of hip hop in the city of Atlanta and how culture works as an art and a technology,\u0026rdquo; said Wilson. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s also a wonderful way to highlight how my colleagues and I in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Literature, Media, and Communications are using culture as a lens to teach humanities-infused science, technology, engineering, art, and math.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/news\/item\/647968\/preserving-past-building-better-future\u0022\u003ELearn more about the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilson\u0026rsquo;s scholarship focuses on social justice-oriented humanities instruction in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), hip hop, African-American music and performance, and African-American education in the South. Her scholarship also focuses on the culture, race, and technology of her native Atlanta and pop culture topics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is known for her use of hip hop and pop culture in her computational media and humanities classes at Georgia Tech, a technique she was among the first to use while teaching in Los Angeles public schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/story\/VgXRISv_xGKfyQ\u0022\u003Eessay\u003C\/a\u003E for Google, Wilson traces the rise of hip hop in Atlanta and how the city and the genre have influenced one another.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Atlanta, as a metaphor for opportunity, has come to represent Black excellence \u0026mdash; a dynamic of realized racial and economic progress that other populations, minorities, and corporations have benefited from,\u0026rdquo; Wilson writes in the essay. \u0026ldquo;Pairing Atlanta\u0026rsquo; with hip hop complicates this dynamic because hip hop culture is no longer a part of the popular mainstream. It is the mainstream.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her section-anchoring essay, the site features two stories on the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive, a collection of thousands of albums, posters, flyers, autographs, and other memorabilia collected by Michael Webster \u0026mdash; an early hip hop DJ in Atlanta \u0026mdash; and curated by Wilson and her \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fourfourbeatproject.org\/hiphophighered\/\u0022\u003EFour Four Beats Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/story\/4wXB2StOTWWc2g\u0022\u003EOne story\u003C\/a\u003E features details on the Michael Webster Collection, which forms the bulk of the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive. The other \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/story\/WQWRnKRjMUSk1g\u0022\u003Ephoto story\u003C\/a\u003E tells the story of how Wilson\u0026rsquo;s Four Four Beat Labs acquired the archive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGoogle\u0026rsquo;s new site features 30 Atlanta cultural institutions, 130 stories, and more than 4,800 artifacts and artworks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta is the fourth U.S. city to be featured in Google Arts \u0026amp; Culture after the Kansas City metropolitan area, Milwaukee, and Charlotte, N.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are thrilled to showcase Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s rich culture and historic art scene for everyone to explore and enjoy online at Google Arts \u0026amp; Culture,\u0026rdquo; said Hetal Joshi Gordon, director, global client lead, and site lead for Google\u0026rsquo;s Atlanta Office. \u0026ldquo;From the city\u0026rsquo;s historic museums to global cuisine and innovative spirit, Atlanta is unique and joyful.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoycelyn Wilson\u0026#39;s essay on hip hop anchor\u0026#39;s the genre\u0026#39;s section of the site, which also includes two stories about her HipHop2020 Innovation Archive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joycelyn Wilson\u0027s essay on hip hop anchor\u0027s the genre\u0027s section of the site, which also includes two stories about her HipHop2020 Innovation Archive."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2021-06-08 11:37:57","changed_gmt":"2021-06-08 11:37:57","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647966":{"id":"647966","type":"image","title":"HipHop2020 Innovation Archive","body":null,"created":"1623112090","gmt_created":"2021-06-08 00:28:10","changed":"1623112090","gmt_changed":"2021-06-08 00:28:10","alt":"Joycelyn Wilson","file":{"fid":"245972","name":"wilson archive 169.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/wilson%20archive%20169.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/wilson%20archive%20169.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":722870,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/wilson%20archive%20169.jpg?itok=KFEZORFi"}}},"media_ids":["647966"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15981","name":"hip hop"},{"id":"174257","name":"joycelyn wilson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}