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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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