André Brock

CTL-E-6368 · Person · scholar · 2020–present

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Combined Graph record U-07554 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6368.

André Brock is an interdisciplinary scholar of Black digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where Georgia Tech lists him as an associate professor of Black Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University. His scholarship examines racial representations in videogames, Black women and weblogs, whiteness, Blackness, and digital technoculture, including groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His article “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation” challenged research that normalized Whiteness online. His award-winning book Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (NYU Press, 2020) theorizes Black everyday life mediated by networked digital technologies. He is a charter member of the NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies.

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• Also known as: André L. Brock, André Brock Jr.

Notes

ERA: 2020–present covers the Georgia Tech / Distributed Blackness period verified in this pass; the earlier career was not verified here and the era is not extended backwards without a source. GRADE BASIS: Verified — the subject's own university faculty page plus an independent university page, agreeing on institution, rank and focus. BLOCKED EDGE: affiliated_with → Georgia Institute of Technology — the university is not homed in the graph. PHOTO: HELD (see media). CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): Brock gives the graph its strongest single node for Black digital culture as joy and practice, not only as harm — a needed counterweight in the technology lane. (Draft judgment, not fact.)

Referenced by

• Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures — authored by → this record

Sources

• “Dr. André L. Brock is an associate professor of Black Digital Media at Georgia Tech… His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter… His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (New York University Press, 2020)…” Accessed 2026-10-29. (primary source · build store)
• “André Brock's field-defining scholarship examines racial representations in social media, video games, black women and weblogs, whiteness, and technoculture.” Accessed 2026-10-29. (build store)

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