Episode 85 – Retweets and Receipts
Hosts: Dr. Jeremy Waisome & Dr. Kyla McMullen
Guest: Dr. André Brock
Connect on social:
From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation –
LIFE ON THE WIRE: Deconstructing race on the Internet –
Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures –
Episode Description:
This week, Kyla and Jeremy are joined by the brilliant and hilarious Dr. André Brock, Associate Professor at Georgia Tech and certified expert in all things digital culture. They dive into how Black communities—especially Black women—have shaped the online world, from memes to movements. Dr. Brock breaks down the magic of “distributed Blackness,” why African American rhetoric matters in tech, and how the internet just wouldn’t be the same without a little (okay, a lot of) Black excellence.
It’s smart, it’s funny, and it might just change the way you see your timeline. Tune in for hot takes, real talk, and maybe a few tweets worth quoting.
Bio:-::
André’s Bio–
André Brock is an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black cybercultures, and digital media. His scholarship examines racial representations in social media, videogames, weblogs, and other digital media in *New Media and Society, The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Media, Culture and Society, Information Communication and Society,* and *Games and Culture*. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His award-winning book, **Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures** (New York University Press, 2020) theorizes Black everyday lives as Black joy, mediated by networked digital technologies.