Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for PMAPS Colloquium with André Brock Jr.: “'The Call is Coming from Inside the House': Algorithmic Inflammation, Misogynoir, and Black Respectability,” on Friday, November 13, at 5:00, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This event is free and open to the public.
Drawing on recent controversies surrounding Tuskegee University's dress code and Nikole Hannah-Jones' New York Times article on predominantly Black schools, this talk highlights how online discourses of respectability take shape as a carceral governmentality requiring portraying certain Black bodies as deviant and how engagement algorithms and media form inflames (and also contests) respectability politics.
Dr. André L. Brock Jr. is Professor of Black Digital Media at Georgia Tech. He holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a M.A. in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from City College of New York. His scholarship attends to the interdisciplinary intersections of race, gender, and digital cultures. His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published by New York University Press in 2020. He has published extensively in academic journals, including but not limited to articles in New Media and Society, Media Culture and Society, and Information, Communication, and Society. He has been interviewed by several news organizations and culture magazines, including WIRED, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME magazine, and The Root. Additionally, he contributed to the Hulu/Disney documentary A People's History of Black Twitter. Dr. Brock is a charter member of the NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies.
This event is sponsored by the Performance and Media Arts Presentation (PMAPS) colloquium series. Inaugurated in Fall 2021, PMAPS is the latest iteration of a colloquium series within the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Its greatest vision lies in offering graduate students a space to present their work to students, faculty, and professionals of similar fields and interests. The content of its presentation’s ranges from media studies to dance, and such diverse nature has earned the attention of related communities both within and outside Ithaca, NY.
