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Andre BrockSchool of Literature, Media and Communications associate professor André Brock was quoted in the article "Ten years of Black Twitter: a merciless watchdog for problematic behavior" in The Guardian on Dec. 23, 2019.
Brock spoke about the development and power of Black Twitter, which the article calls "a particular collective of black identities and voices on Twitter taking part in collective, culturally specific jokes and dialogues that affect the community," ranging from memes to political commentary.
Excerpt:
The Georgia Tech professor André Brock says Black Twitter allowed mainstream, white culture an unprecedented glimpse at how black people talk and joke among each other. “It was one of the first spaces that white people could see how creative black people are with our discourse, and how we used a technology that wasn’t originally designed for us.”
