Announcing the 2021-2022 NMCC ANNUAL LECTURE:
The Illumination of Blackness: Afro-optimism and Digital Cultures, Thur. May 5th, 2022, 4:00-5:30 PM. Featuring André Brock (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Georgia Tech).

André Brock’s field-defining scholarship examines racial representations in social media, video games, black women and weblogs, whiteness, and technoculture. His monograph, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (NYU Press, 2020), explores the history and cultural practices of Web browsers, Black Twitter, and Black discourse—how Black everyday lives are mediated by networked technologies—to inform a deeply theoretical conception of Black technoculture. Distributed Blackness was recently honored by the 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award and can be read (open access) online.

In addition to his main NMCC talk on Thursday May 5th, Dr. Brock will be facilitating a lunchtime workshop on Friday, May 6th for graduate students on “Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA)”: a multimodal analytic technique he developed for the investigation of internet and digital phenomena, artifacts, and culture. (More on CTDA here). The CTDA Graduate Student Workshop is open to all graduate students at the University of Oregon and lunch will be provided. Please Note: registration for the CTDA Graduate Student Workshop is now closed.

EVENT CO-SPONSORS: The Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities · University of Oregon Department of Philosophy · University of Oregon Department of Sociology · University of Oregon Department of Comparative Literature · University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies · University of Oregon Department of English