Race, Space & Place: The Price of the Ticket: Racism, Black Digital Practice, and Racism Battle Fatigue
0301 Hornbake Library, MITH conference Room
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM
André Brock is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Brock is one of the preeminent scholars of Black Cyberculture. His work bridges Science and Technology Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, showing how the communicative affordances of online media align with those of Black communication practices. He recently completed a sabbatical as a Visiting Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England, and is working on a manuscript on Black online technoculture.
0301 Hornbake Library North (lower level, behind Library Media Services)
Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Join scholar Kishonna Gray from MIT and Harvard as she discusses how video games legitimize white masculinity and hegemonic ideology through the ‘othering’ process.