Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0003
André Brock
Taking a step backward from overt digital practices, this chapter looks at a digital artifact so widely used that it has become communicative infrastructure: the web browser. Its framing of our entire online information content and practice shapes digital identity through interactions with online services, while its customizability encourages perceptions of individual, rather than social, technocultural identity. This chapter looks at the Blackbird browser, specifically targeted to Black users, to unpack how browsers can shape Black identity from a technocultural framework. While digital interfaces are so mutable that they encourage beliefs of universalism and individualization, this chapter argues that racial digital practices can and do shape information design and behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0007
André Brock
This chapter closes out Distributed Blackness by extrapolating from Black digital practice to a theory of Black technoculture, examining Black cultural discourses about technology’s mediations of intellect, sociality, progress, and culture itself. In doing so, it reviews various approaches to theorizing Blackness, Black bodies, Black culture, and technology. These approaches include Afrofuturism; but this chapter supplements Afrofuturism by suggesting that Black technoculture is invested in the “postpresent” rather than speculating about Blackness’s future within some yet to be established sociopolitical technological reality. Black technocultural theory insists that the digital’s virtual separation from the material world still retains ideologies born of physical, temporal, and social beliefs about race, modernity, and the future.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0005
André Brock
Black digital practice reveals a complicated mix of technological literacy, discursive identity, and cultural critique. Taken together, it offers glimpses of the multivalent Black communities’ political, technocultural, and historical commonplaces to the outside world. These can be understood as three topoi shaping Black digital practice—ratchetry, respectability, and racism. This chapter examines ratchetry and racism as interlocking libidinal frames powering Black digital practice. Black digital practice, which the author once characterized as ritual drama and catharsis, can also be understood as digital orality—an online space encoded by folk culture and racial ideology, and undergirded by a libidinal discursive economy, producing pungent, plaintive commentary on matters political.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0004
André Brock
This chapter argues that Twitter can be properly understood as an online venue for shared pathos and catharsis, due in large part to the contributions of Black culture and cultural content. By focusing on the banal and everyday commentary that originally raised Black Twitter to national prominence, this chapter provides insights into Black Twitter as a political and cultural force. This chapter deconstructs arguments for Twitter as a broadcast network, as an information provider, and as a news source by profiling Black Twitter as an example of how a closely knit community—culturally isolated and socially segregated—can easily parlay its communitarian ethos and discursive identity into social network practice.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0006
André Brock
Black Twitter’s most visible moments—such as #BlackLivesMatter—can be understood as a political representation of Black online identity. But whose politics and to what ends? Twitter’s mutable nature engenders technocultural uncertainties about what Twitter is good for; similarly, the service’s performances of Black online activism also contribute to volatile in-group and out-group discourses on whether Black folk are “appropriate” technology users alongside whether Black political concerns can be properly articulated online.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479820375.003.0002
André Brock
This chapter presents the three conceptual pillars for the analysis used throughout the book. These are explorations into identity as a tension between self and the social, Black bodies and Blackness, and technology as text. These three form the epistemological grounding for critical technocultural discourse analysis, which is the method used across every chapter in this text.
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