{"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\">From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation<\/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\">Critical technocultural discourse analysis<\/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\">Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures<\/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\">#causeascene podcast \u2013 Andr\u00e9 Brock<\/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\">On Dray: a remix + zine<\/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\">On Race and Technoculture: Part II<\/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\">Digital (and Distributed) Blackness \u2013 Black Power Media<\/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\">A People\u2019s History of Black Twitter: Part II<\/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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