TY - BOOK AU - Brock,André L. TI - Distributed blackness: African American cybercultures T2 - Critical cultural communication SN - 9781479829965 (pbk.) : U1 - 302.2'3'08996073 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - African Americans KW - Communication KW - African Americans and mass media KW - Intellectual life KW - 21st century KW - Internet KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Online social networks KW - Media Studies KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'Distributed Blackness' places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. It analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity ER -