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SUMMARY:Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
DESCRIPTION:André Brock\, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan\nChris 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. \nAndré 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.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andre-brock-black-twitter-cultural-informatics-approach/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:#Misogynoir\, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen\, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:Kishonna GrayMLK Visiting Scholar\nWomen of color have a variety of responses when employing digital technologies for empowerment. New communication technologies have expanded the opportunities and potential for marginalized communities to mobilize in this context counter to the dominant\, mainstream media. This growth reflects the mobilization of marginalized communities within virtual and real spaces reflecting a systematic change in who controls the narrative. No longer are mainstream media the only disseminators of messages or producers of content. Women\, in particular\, are employing social media to highlight issues that are often ignored in dominant discourse. However\, access itself neither ensures power nor guarantees a shift in the dominant ideology (as the use of #Misogynoir by Katy Perry reveals among other examples). Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity\, heterosexuality\, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces\, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities. Yet the conceptual frameworks intended to capture the digital lives of women cannot deconstruct the structural inequalities of these spaces. \nKishonna L. Gray (Ph.D.\, Arizona State University) is currently a MLK Visiting Scholar in Women & Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. She is also the Founder of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University. She is expanding on the work created here to develop new initiatives surrounding Equity in Gaming (www.equityingaming.com). Her work broadly intersects identity and new media although she has a particular focus on gaming. Her most recent book\, Race\, Gender\, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge\, 2014)\, provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within that virtual gaming community.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/misogynoir-solidarityisforwhitewomen-forms-black-digital-feminisms/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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