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On this episode we chat with Author and tenured Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech University, André Brock Jr.! We chop it up about what are some of our favorite games to play, their origin story, the importance of Critical Technoculture Discourse Analysis (CTDA), how blackness is interpreted and expressed in the digital communities and a bunch of other stuff! Be sure to follow them on all of their platforms for more of their content and go check out their book Disturbed Blackness: African American Cybercultures! ACADEMIA MAIN PAGEhttps://andrebrock.academia.edu/RESEARCHhttps://andrebrock.academia.edu/research#papersTWITTERhttps://twitter.com/DocDre---Welcome to the Unapologetically Black Gaming Podcast, a place created by black gamers for black gamers.Follow us at the platforms below:https://twitter.com/UBGPodhttps://www.tiktok.com/@ubgpodhttps://ko-fi.com/ubgpodhttps://www.twitch.tv/ubgpodSupport the showSupport the show

André Brock, professor and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, popped by the show to talk about the origins of Black Twitter, the importance of writing about digital subcultures as they're developing, digital whiteflight, and the first Black social networking site, BlackPlanet.com.Find André's work here and on Twitter here.Articles referenced:How Black people use Twitter, Farhad ManjooYou Can Tweet Like This, Or You Can Tweet Like That, Or You Can Tweet Like Us, Post BourgieWhat Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?, Choire SichaMicah's “Black people on Twitter” theory, Nick DouglasFrom the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation, André Brock…and the research on Black Twitter conducted by Deen Freelon, Meredith Clark, and Charleton McIlwain

Join contributors to the special edition of Logic Magazine, Beacons, for a discussion on Black freedom and technology. What would it mean to take the Black internet seriously? How do we call in Black studies scholars to imagining technologies of black freedoms in addition to grappling with the racial regimes wrought by artificial intelligence and machine learning models? The dominant approach to mis/disinformation is policing, reporting and suspending individual users but what if we oriented towards abolition and affirming black joy? What can the black radical tradition offer in addressing new modes of surveillance and social control that begin from black indigineity instead of reinscribing the nation state? Contributors to special edition of Logic Magazine, in partnership with We Be Imagining, Beacons: Andre Brock and SA Smythe will be in conversation with Zoé Samudzi. Moderated by J. Khadijah Abdurahman. Get the new issue of Logic Magazine, Beacons, here: https://logicmag.io --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: SA Smythe (they / them) is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of Black European Cultural Studies, Contemporary Mediterranean Studies, and Black Trans Poetics at UCLA, where they research relational aspects of Black belonging beyond borders. They are a Senior Fellow at theCenter for Applied Transgender Studies and editor of Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity, a special issue for Postmodern Culture. Winner of the 2022 Rome Prize for Modern Italian Studies, Smythe is currently based between Rome and Tongva Land (Los Angeles). André Brock (@docdre) is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media & Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Brock is one of the preeminent scholars of Black Cyberculture. His work bridges Science and Technology Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, showing how the communicative affordances of online media align with those of Black communication practices. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. He is the author of Distributed Blackness: African-American Cyberculture. Zoé Samudzi has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco where she is a postdoctoral fellow in the ACTIONS Program. She is co-author of As Black as Resistance, guest editor of the September-October 2021 issue of The Funambulist titled "Against Genocide," and a writer whose work has appeared in The New Republic, The New Inquiry, Hyperallergic, Jewish Currents, and other outlets. J. Khadijah Abdurahman (she/they/any) is an abolitionist whose research focus is predictive analytics in the child welfare system. They are the founder of We Be Imagining, a public interest technology project at Columbia University's INCITE Center and The American Assembly's Democracy and Trust Program. WBI draws on the Black radical tradition to develop public technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations. Khadijah is co-leading the Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism alongside Sucheta Ghoshal's Inquilab at the University of Washington, HCDE. Their report examining the role of tech in mass atrocities in Ethiopia is forthcoming. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Logic Magazine and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/kiuv7W4gNqo Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Paris Marx is joined by André Brock to discuss the history of Black people's online activity, the internet's association with whiteness, and what Black Twitter can tell us about the centrality of Black people to digital culture.André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked digital technologies. You can get if from NYU Press, and it's available through open access. Follow André on Twitter at @DocDre.

André Brock, Black Morpheus Race in the Technocultural Matrix by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

André Brock, Black Morpheus: Race in the Technocultural Matrix by Ethics of AI Lab, University of Toronto

This recording is a Q&A with André Brock following his presentation of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures.In Distributed Blackness, Brock asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western technoculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis (Brock, 2018), Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this talk employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.Technoculture is the American mythos (Dinerstein, 2006) and ideology; a belief system powering the coercive, political, and carceral relations between culture and technology. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture's practices of “race-as- technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things.” Hence, Black technoculture.

In Distributed Blackness, André Brock asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western technoculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis (Brock, 2018), Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this talk employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.Technoculture is the American mythos (Dinerstein, 2006) and ideology; a belief system powering the coercive, political, and carceral relations between culture and technology. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture's practices of “race-as- technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things.” Hence, Black technoculture.

Dr. André Brock Jr, author of Distributed Blackness, discusses how issues of race and ethnicity are inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States and how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity.This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.Dr. André Brock, Jr is the author of Distributed Blackness and an Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.Josh Chapdelaine is the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human Podcast.-----Follow Digital VoidTwitter: https://twitter.com/digivoidmediaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKWoac3SIfsUg6Xl0X1GS8AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/digivoidmediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalvoid.media/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/34894594Use the hashtags #DigitalVoid #DigitalVoidPodcast to join the conversation-----CreditsProduced by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh ChapdelaineAudio edited and mixed by Josh ChapdelaineOur on-site video manager is Blake KoznesoffOur Community Manager is Kayleigh Marinelli-----Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void Media.Contact Digital Void:Email: digivoidmedia@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Podcast Description “Black people are constantly lookin’ back at who they were, while constantly trying to look forward while navigating this fuckery that is white supremacy” André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. His scholarship examines racial representations in social media, videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, and technoculture, including innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His NYU Press book titled *Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures* was published in February 2020, offering insights to understanding Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies. His article “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation” challenged social science and communication research to confront the ways in which the field, in his words, preserved “a color-blind perspective on online endeavors by normalizing Whiteness and othering everyone else” and sparked a conversation that continues, as Twitter in particular continues to evolve as a communication platform. He has also authored influential research on digital methods, gaming, blogging, and online identity. Transcription 00:30 Kim Crayton: Hello everyone, and welcome to today's episode of the #CauseAScene podcast. Today my guest is Andrè Brock; pronouns him/his/he. Would you please introduce yourself to the audience, Andrè? Dr. Andrè Brock: Hi, my name is Andrè Brock. I'm an associate professor of Black Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology here in Atlanta, Georgia. Kim: All right, so we always start with two questions: why is it important to cause a scene? And how are you causing a scene? Dr. Brock: It's important for me to cause a scene in the work that I do because I study Black people and digital environments. I've been doing it since the early 2000s, and one of the things that has been of note to me is that we're often erased from technological narratives, particularly around computing. And if we're not erased, we're often put in a space where we're deemed not sufficient or not appropriate to use those technologies. Kim: And how are you causing a scene? 01:26 Dr. Brock: My research since that time has been dedicated towards showing that we indeed are—in my recent book, I call it "natural Internet users"—that our facility and our joy at using the Internet come from the ways that we interact with the world. And as such, we tend to bring an excess of life to wherever we are on the Internet. That translates in multiple ways, whether it's dance videos, or Black Twitter, or our political activism done during Ferguson and later moments of social injustice. Kim: OK, so we're just gonna dive into this; y'all know how I do this. So you said erased from technological narratives or positioned as inadequate. [Laughs] I need you to talk about that, because I need to know if you—and first I want you to say more about that because again, my audience is mainly white folx and I need them to understand what the fuck they doing. Dr. Brock: Hello, white people. Kim: Yes, hello white people and welcome to my world. And also, if you have any historical precedent of like when did this happen? Was it always this way? Was there... because—and what's popping in my head, it reminds... the question I'm trying to answer is when video games first came out, they were non-gender. They were—everybody played video games. And then all of a sudden they start gendering games and having the narrative of girls don't play games when that was never the truth. So I'm trying to see if this eraser from technical narrative and this this narrative that Blacks aren't capable, has it always been there, and then... or, was it not there and then—just like we saw with "Hidden Figures"—and where we learn that women were actually in computer—were in heavily in computing and then were pushed out. So that's the one I'm tryna figure out: is this something—this erasure of Blacks in technical narrative—was it from t...

Welcome to another episode of Cyberdiva's podcast where ALL who speak are Cyberdivas. In this episode David Stephens and I discuss “intersectionality” and its (mis)uses. David Stephens is a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in the American Culture Studies program at Bowling Green State University. Please note podcasts are publications - and like any other publication when things said here are repurposed by others in their work - they should be cited. For instance, to cite this podcast you might use some version of : Stephens, David and Radhika Gajjala. “Cyberdiva's Podcast • A Podcast on Anchor.” Anchor, Radhika Gajjala, 21 July 2019, anchor.fm/radhika-gajjala. Works referenced in this podcast (in addition to the excellent work of Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw and of Mr. David Stephens): Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018) André Brock, “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 56, no. 4 (2012): 529‒49, doi: 10.1080/08838151.2012.732147.

Chris Sacca, activist investor, recently argued that Black Twitter IS Twitter. For example, African American usage of the service often dominates user metrics in the United States, despite their minority demographic numbers as computer users. This talk by André Brock unpacks Black Twitter use from two perspectives: analysis of the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of Twitter’s utility and audience. Using examples of Black Twitter practice, Brock offers that Twitter’s feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity. Thus, Twitter’s outsized function as mechanism for cultural critique and political activism can be understood as the awakening of Black digital practice and an abridging of a digital divide. André Brock is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Brock is one of the preeminent scholars of Black cyberculture. His work bridges Science and Technology Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, showing how the communicative affordances of online media align with those of Black communication practices. Through December 2016, he is a Visiting Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England.

Episode 126: A Conversation Under the Shade Tree With André Brock.  (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). In this episode we talk with André Brock (aka @DocDre). André is an Assistant Professor of Communication...

My interviewee this time is André Brock from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. His recent article in Games and Culture called ‘‘When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong: Resident Evil 5, Racial Representation, and Gamers” was the topic of our conversation. Brock writes that, “videogames’ ability to depict cultural iconographies and characters have occasionally … Read more about this episode...