{"id":799513,"date":"2021-11-23T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T01:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&#038;p=799513"},"modified":"2021-11-24T05:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:23:49","slug":"on-race-and-technoculture","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/on-race-and-technoculture\/","title":{"rendered":"On Race and Technoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, and never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS), reorienting Western technoculture\u2019s practices of \u201crace-as-technology\u201d to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as \u201cthings\u201d. Hence, Black technoculture. Utilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis, Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this presentation employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.<\/p>\n<h4>Learning Materials<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/08838151.2012.732147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Publication:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1461444816677532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critical technocultural discourse analysis<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Book:\u00a0<em><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/opensquare.nyupress.org\/books\/9781479811908\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/em>, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Podcast appearance:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/hashtagcauseascene.com\/podcast\/andre-brock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#causeascene podcast \u2013 Andr\u00e9 Brock<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Radio show appearance & Zine:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/americanassembly.org\/black-siren-radio\/on-dray-respectability-politics-zine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Dray: a remix + zine<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Podcast appearance:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/listen.datasociety.net\/episodes\/on-race-and-technoculture-part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Race and Technoculture: Part II<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Radio show appearance:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t22eTKRJ5aA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital (and Distributed) Blackness \u2013 Black Power Media<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2021<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Op-ed:\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/black-twitter-oral-history-part-ii-rising-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A People\u2019s History of Black Twitter: Part II<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/race-technology-a-research-lecture-series\/\">Learn more about the Race and Technology Research Lecture Series ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, and never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. 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