Hutchins Center Colloquium feat. Mark Anthony Neal: What if the Greensboro Four had Twitter? (11/20)

Hutchins Center Colloquium feat. Mark Anthony Neal: What if the Greensboro Four had Twitter? (11/20)
Location: 
Harvard UniversityHiphop Archive & Research Institute, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: 
November 20, 2013 - 12:00pm
What if the Greensboro Four Had Twitter? Social Justice in the Age of Social Media and Hip-Hop  
With the Greensboro Sit-ins of 1960 as a jump-off, Neal’s talk will examine the use of “social media” historically in Black social justice movements and examine examples of how social media has been used in contemporary social justice activities.  Neal argues that dating back to the Black experience on southern plantations, and including hip-hop in the 1980s, forms of social media have existed as code—“Black Code”—that served the needs of Black communities that were public and dispersed. Additionally Neal will look at organizations like One Hood Media Academy in Pittsburgh, Digital Youth Network in Chicago and Black Girls Code in San Francisco, that are using digital technology and social media to address communities in crisis. Finally Neal will discuss the concept of the “mobile” Diaspora.
Mark Anthony NealHiphop Archive Fellow; Professor, African & African-American Studies, Duke University
Introduction by Marcyliena Morgan, Director, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center
NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION:
Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA
Lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a Q&A session following each talk.
Food and drink are not allowed within the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute.