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To commemorate Black History Month, MediaJustice is proud to present “That’s So Black,” a new content series spotlighting how Black people created Internet culture as we know it today.
Tea? #MeToo? Digital interest groups? Yeah, that all came from Black folks.
From the ways we communicate with one another to how we build community across borders, Black culture has served as the blueprint for Internet culture and popular culture at-large.
After all, pop culture is just expired Black culture and with the prominence of social media, the lines between Internet culture and pop culture are blurred.
What was once underground is now mainstream and the perfect product for the attention economy. White supremacy and capitalism extract from our communities and the Internet is yet another site for corporations to profit off of our culture while exploiting and dehumanizing us.
All month long, follow along on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as we share how Black people have always been the earliest adopters of media platforms and how we’ve created Internet culture, including:
- Queer ballroom slang
- AfroNet and new media as a form of creating community
- Digital cultural organizing through the lens of #MeToo
- Black Twitter and the history of Black news distribution
In Solidarity,
Eteng Ettah
Narrative Director, MediaJustice
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