Latest posts tagged with #BlackSoftware on Bluesky
Monday, after my worst 2 covid days, I struggled through this convo with @tavissmiley abt #BlackSoftware. Talked #BuffaloMassacre & the ways that our tech was not built to protect black ppl from white supremacist violence- in fact, quite the opposite....
I’ve reached one of my greatest career milestones, learning that #BlackSoftware made it on this list of 200 books banned from @EducationFL public schools, pushed by @RonDeSantisFL #CriticalRaceTheory #technology #equity #justice...
#BlackSoftware is now out in paperback! Pick up your copy at my favorite black-owned bookstore of the day @EsoWon https://www.esowonbookstore.com/book/9780197581599
Thanks to the folks at digitalmindfulness.net/139-black-software-with-... for featuring #BlackSoftware on its podcast way back in January.
The list of thank-yous and shoutouts to everyone who lifted up my book #BlackSoftware this year - starting with @teleread - pioneering site from the '90s still helping to close the "reading divide" ...
Folks who've read #BlackSoftware know its a broad audience book-narrative driven, no citations. Indebted 2 many scholars, colleagues, friends whose work took root in my head as I wrote. Thought I'd share 3-starred quotes from some of their work. Will continue 2 add to thread
Great conversation yesterday with @fturner about the histories and future of the Internet, our two books, #BlackSoftware and From Counterculture to Cyberculture. With @anniehgalvin. Look out for the @PublicBooks podcast this summer!
Looking forward to talking with @onwurd @ellisonreport in a little while about my new book #BlackSoftware. Tune in if you can, 12:25est! #onWURD
Professor @mccNYU. Author of recent book #BlackSoftware. History of black ppls relationship to computing tech from 1960 up through present.
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Thanks @TheAdvocateMag for featuring #BlackSoftware on your list: 13 SMART MUST-READ BOOKS ON RACE AND HATE. www.advocate.com/art/2019/12/29/13-smart-...
2019 was a great year (2 months) for my new book #BlackSoftware. @eileenybean published this great expose and interview about the book for @nyuniversity news and @FuturityNews: www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/...
2019 was a great year (2 months) for my new book #BlackSoftware. Book tour next stop: @kramerbooks. Spent the day with awesome doc students @AU_SOC @aram and a public talk with a crowd from the @AmericanU community. http://ow.ly/cidP50xKG88 BUY THE BOOK: http://ow.ly/6WV630q5y1V
2019 was a great year (2 months) for my new book #BlackSoftware. The book tour began with the always great folks @datasociety, where I talked about 2books+1story+a little cocaine. Listen: http://ow.ly/czmS50xKFCJ Watch: http://ow.ly/78nl50xKFCF BUY THE BOOK: http://ow.ly/6WV630q5y1V
2019 was a great year (2 months) for my new book #BlackSoftware. It debuted on @MSNBC @Morning_joe with lightning round of Qs about Black Internet pioneers, Black digital culture & the lack of diversity in tech. http://ow.ly/VnRI50xKEUN BUY THE BOOK: http://ow.ly/6WV630q5y1V
2019 was a great year (2 months) for my new book #BlackSoftware. Just before launch - me, w/ @SCStuart2020 for @PCMag explaining the apparently revolutionary fact: "Tech History Is More Than Just White, Male Wizards" http://ow.ly/6uob50xJHLi BUY THE BOOK: http://ow.ly/6WV630q5y1V
Reflecting on our conversation about my new book #BlackSoftware and the Internet's enduring blackness, @nonlinearnotes asks in this @WIRED piece: "Would the internet work better if it were more segregated?" www.wired.com/story/we-should-seriousl...
Straight out of the gate, Esty Dinur @WORTtalk asked me about some of the black women Internet pioneers I wrote about in #BlackSoftware. Listen to our conversation about that and much more on the A Public Affair Podcast (18:22) on @SoundCloud...
In the book, I describe #Blacksoftware as both the "the kind that positively impacts black people's lives and the kind that destroys them." This story and excerpt @engadget is an example of the latter. @terrortola http://ow.ly/13IX50xuRSQ
Come through if you can and join my conversation about #BlackSoftware with Kamal Al-Mansour, founder of 1980s-90s Afrolink Software, Inc.
In/near San Francisco? Join me at @CityLightsBooks this Wednesday, Dec. 4 for #BlackSoftware book reading & conversation with @edavidellington, former founder/CEO of legendary #NetNoir. http://ow.ly/ds6B50xonG5 @OUPAcademic
Thanks @geekwire for highlighting my upcoming #BlackSoftware book talk @THSEA on Dec. 2 along with your advice for “finding a gift for a geeky family member”! www.geekwire.com/2019/geekwire-calendar-p...
If you're planning on being in Washington, D.C. tomorrow evening, join me for my book talk and signing at Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe @kramerbooks this Thursday! #BlackSoftware
Last week I joined the set of @MSNBC @Morning_Joe with @morningmika @esglaude @WillieGeist to talk about #BLM, #techdiversity, Black Internet pioneers & my new book #BlackSoftware. If you didn't catch it then, here it is: http://ow.ly/KPao50x5pR4
History says white male wizards birthed the internet. My interview with @SCStuart2020 for @PCMag highlights black folks from the 90s to the present who made the Internet as we know it-whether we knew it or not. #BlackSoftware https://trib.al/ayvpF2V
Catch me this afternoon (3:05-3:30) on @scifri with @iraflatow talking about black pioneers who made the Internet. Making space for #BlackSoftware and my new book by the same name www.sciencefriday.com/articles/making-space-fo...
#BlackSoftware readers - Remember this photo! When you read my story about @RepMaxineWaters from 1996, carry that forward to this image of her face now and imagine the kind of rage and contempt going through her mind for...
Thanks @wpglibrary for featuring #BlackSoftware among your new titles! www.google.com/amp/s/winnipegpublibrary...
Predictive Policing. Racial Profiling. Crime databases. All around 2day, they realize a 50 y. o. dream. Read abt the PoliceBeatAlgorithm in @FutureTenseNow profiling the "33 bits of software that have transformed our world" (and in my book, #BlackSoftware) https://bit.ly/35BCQHk
Thanks to my man @heyitsnoah for the shout out about my new book #BlackSoftware whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interestin...
If any of you are at @APSAtweets (I’m not), stroll over to the @OUPAcademic booth and you can see the first advanced copy of #BlackSoftware. If you do, can you share a pic? 👀
