Name: Black Online Culture, Blackfishing, and Digital Blackface and Welcoming Reception for Dr. André Brock, an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor
Start: 2023-09-20T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-16T18:09:05-05:00
Location: Iowa City Public Library: Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Library EventBlack Online Culture, Blackfishing, and Digital Blackface and Welcoming Reception for Dr. André Brock, an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

09/20/2023 6:00pm 09/20/2023 8:00pm Black Online Culture, Blackfishing, and Digital Blackface and Welcoming Reception for Dr. André Brock, an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Do we all tweet alike? Our world is structured through our relationships with technology and culture, and Dr. Brock studies the ways Blackness is created through online interactions. Dr. Brock shows how being Black online is more than outrage, stereotype, or appropriation. Drawing on recent examples of Blackness as digital phenomena, like "Blackfishing" and "Digital Blackface," Dr. Brock argues that Black Twitter is an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic. His journey to becoming an award-winning professor of Black online culture will also be part of his presentation. There will be an hour-long presentation followed by a welcoming reception. Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library America/Chicago public

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Do we all tweet alike? Our world is structured through our relationships with technology and culture, and Dr. Brock studies the ways Blackness is created through online interactions. Dr. Brock shows how being Black online is more than outrage, stereotype, or appropriation. Drawing on recent examples of Blackness as digital phenomena, like "Blackfishing" and "Digital Blackface," Dr. Brock argues that Black Twitter is an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic. His journey to becoming an award-winning professor of Black online culture will also be part of his presentation.
There will be an hour-long presentation followed by a welcoming reception.

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This event is open to the public.