Bio: André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech.  He writes on Western technoculture and Black  cybercultures; his scholarship examines race in social media, video games,  blogs, and other digital media.   His book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, (NYU Press 2020), theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies and was recently named by The Verge as one of the “Top Tech Books of All Time”.  It is also the 2021 winner of the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies and the 2021 Association of Internet Researchers Nancy Baym Book Award.