Andre Brock

Dr. André L. Brock is an associate professor of Black Digital Media at Georgia Tech.  He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a MA in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Library and information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 article “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation” challenged social science and communication research to confront the ways in which the field, in his words, preserved “a color-blind perspective on online endeavors by normalizing Whiteness and othering everyone else” and sparked a conversation that continues, as Twitter in particular continues to evolve as a communication platform.

His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (New York University Press, 2020) theorizes Black everyday lives as Black joy, mediated by networked digital technologies. The author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Brock’s writings have appeared in prominent journals like Media, Culture, and Society, New Media and Society, Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Information, Communication and Society.  He has been interviewed by WIRED, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME magazine, and The Root, and completed far too many podcast interviews including Tech Won't Save Us with Paris Marx and The Black Studies Podcast with Ashley Newby.  He has 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.