{"630739":{"#nid":"630739","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ten years of Black Twitter: a merciless watchdog for problematic behavior","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Literature, Media and Communications associate professor Andr\u0026eacute;\u0026nbsp;Brock was quoted in the article \u0026quot;Ten years of Black Twitter: a merciless watchdog for problematic behavior\u0026quot; in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Guardian\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eon Dec. 23, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrock spoke about the development and power of Black Twitter, which the article calls \u0026quot;a\u0026nbsp;particular collective of black identities and voices on Twitter taking part in collective, culturally specific jokes and dialogues that affect the community,\u0026quot; ranging from memes to political commentary.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech professor Andr\u0026eacute; Brock says Black Twitter allowed mainstream, white culture an unprecedented glimpse at how black people talk and joke among each other.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was one of the first spaces that white people could see how creative black people are with our discourse, and how we used a technology that wasn\u0026rsquo;t originally designed for us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/dec\/23\/ten-years-black-twitter-watchdog\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-01-08 15:45:11","changed_gmt":"2020-01-08 15:45:11","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Christine Angelini","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/dec\/23\/ten-years-black-twitter-watchdog","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"622557":{"id":"622557","type":"image","title":"Andre Brock","body":null,"created":"1560808187","gmt_created":"2019-06-17 21:49:47","changed":"1560808187","gmt_changed":"2019-06-17 21:49:47","alt":"A portrait photo of Andre Brock","file":{"fid":"237113","name":"Andre_brock_270x239.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andre_brock_270x239.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andre_brock_270x239.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":46333,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Andre_brock_270x239.jpg?itok=0Gd8goX1"}}},"media_ids":["622557"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167543","name":"social media"},{"id":"3747","name":"literature"},{"id":"113331","name":"literature media and communication"},{"id":"180375","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; LMC; Literature"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}