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DESCRIPTION:Please sign up on Eventbrite to receive the zoom link. \n	\n	Auth
 or of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\, Dr. André Br
 ock will speak to how social media platforms impacts Black communities. Br
 ock's book asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western techn
 oculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis\, Afro-optimism
 \, and libidinal economic theory\, Brock will employ Black Twitter as an e
 xemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by 
 a Black aesthetic. This critical intervention for internet research and sc
 ience and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture's pract
 ices of 'race-as- technology' (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as techno
 logical subjects rather than as 'things.' Hence\, Black technoculture.\n	\n
 	André L. Brock joined the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication
  as an associate professor. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with an M.A
 . in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in L
 ibrary and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-C
 hampaign. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representa
 tions in videogames\, black women and weblogs\, whiteness\, blackness\, an
 d digital technoculture\, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twit
 ter. His article 'From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversat
 ion' challenged social science and communication research to confront the 
 ways in which the field preserved 'a color-blind perspective on online end
 eavors by normalizing Whiteness and othering everyone else' and sparked a 
 conversation that continues\, as Twitter\, in particular\, continues to ev
 olve.\n	\n	This event is part of the 4th Season of the Feminist and Accessib
 le Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series\
 , organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n	\n	This event is co-hosted by the DIGS La
 b of Concordia (under the direction of Dr. Stefanie Duguay).\n	\n	Our series
  was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institute for Gende
 r\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Ini
 tiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, and more (see our website!)\n	\n	The
 re is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide captions in En
 glish. This event will be recorded and made available on our website after
  the event.\n
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SUMMARY:Dr. André Brock on Distributed Blackness
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/igsf/channels/event/dr-andre-brock-distributed-bl
 ackness-335414
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