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 (2020), which theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies, was awarded the 2021 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 and was recently named by the Verge as one of the “top tech books of all time.”
Charles V. Carnegie is the author of Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002) and professor emeritus at Bates College. He divides his time between Lewiston, Maine, and Kingston, Jamaica, working with nonprofit organizations in both places. Publications based on his research in Kingston include “The Loss of the Verandah: Kingston’s...
