@friede on Twitter & most elsewhere.
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
Associate Professor of English.
Director 18thConnect.org.
Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books
Next book: IMPROVISED WORLDS (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performances)
Also know a fair bit about #Austen #18thCentury (#Bigger6 Supporter), #DH #BookHistory #Archives
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The Thing About Austen turns two!
We want to take a moment to thank all of our lovely listeners - we truly would not still be here two years later without your support for this project. We sincerely appreciate all of you so, so much. Onward to year three!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Austen_Things/status/1674952364867088387
Like so many, we are reeling over the sad news of the passing of George Haggerty. Our world is not as bright as it had been. George was a very longtime friend of the LWL, having first visited during Mr. Lewis's time & returning many times over the years.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LewisWalpoleLib/status/1674921082338394115
I’m bereft at the passing of a mentor, friend, & father figure, George Haggerty. George mentored several generations of queer & women scholars. I’ve modeled my pedagogy, mentoring, & scholarship after him.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/farr_jason/status/1674872222714822660
No gods, no masters, but @[email protected] is on my very short list of TTRPG people who would break my heart if they did a heel turn. Just one of the most joyous idea partners I’ve met.
Yesterday was bully @[email protected] day but today is love Gabe day. Tell me why you love our Gabey baby or the impact he's had in your life 🩷 https://twitter.com/GabeJamesGames/status/1674527123522961410
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThatBronzeGirl/status/1674838160189329408
This week in my newsletter, a graphic essay by @[email protected] all about size discrimination. Read it here: https://audacity.substack.com/p/weighty-matters
When in doubt, @[email protected] is the devil. Palimpsest performances!
I listened to the one-shot of @[email protected] and it was a wild chaotic mess and I loved every second of it. From @[email protected] playing a goat, that may or not be the devil, straight out of a Guy Ritchie movie, to @[email protected] as a grandma chicken who’s committed a couple war crimes in
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JonRange75/status/1674725826292531200
Recommendation: humanities faculty who are making a case against the defunding of their fields may want to read/call upon the recent Boyer report. The last Boyer report in 1998 instigated large shifts in ug education in research universities; this one may do the same
Today for #CiteBlackWomenSunday, we're diving into Tricia Hersey's (@[email protected]), REST IS RESISTANCE: A MANIFESTO (2022). Here's a thread of our favorite quotes:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/citeblackwomen/status/1673025759508660231
Join @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected] in the first Adventuring Party talkback for Dimension 20: Dungeons and Drag Queens!
Watch the full episode here on @[email protected]: https://www.dropout.tv/videos/the-illuminati-invented-sandwiches
#Dimension20 #DungeonsandDragQueens
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dimension20show/status/1674553581934895105
Shameless self-promotion moment:
This book? This book right here? This book that’s one of the “Top Tech Books of All Time” according to the Verge?
Is free for download* (PDF and EPUB) right now at https://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/9781479811908/#:~:text=Andr%C3%A9%20Brock%2C%20Jr.&text=From%20BlackPlanet%20to%20%23BlackGirlMagic%2C%20Distributed,culture%20in%20the%20United%20States
*Will someone smart explain how I get paid royalties… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1674752453940596736
[Open Access] Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture AssociationWinner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersAn explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how “blackness” gets worked out in various technological domains. As Brock demonstrates, there’s nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.
