André Brock, professor and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, popped by the show to talk about the origins of Black Twitter, the importance of writing about digital subcultures as they’re developing, digital whiteflight, and the first Black social networking site, BlackPlanet.com.

Find André’s work here and on Twitter here.

Articles referenced:
How Black people use Twitter, Farhad Manjoo
You Can Tweet Like This, Or You Can Tweet Like That, Or You Can Tweet Like Us, Post Bourgie
What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?, Choire Sicha
Micah’s “Black people on Twitter” theory, Nick Douglas
From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation, André Brock
…and the research on Black Twitter conducted by Deen Freelon, Meredith Clark, and Charleton McIlwain