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André (he/him/his) is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, videogames, weblogs, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.

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Before joining the DISCO team, Kevin Winstead was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Black Digital Research at Pennsylvania State University. He served as director of communications for the Center during its inaugural year, where he founded DigBLK Studios, the project's streaming, and digital outreach arm. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland and served as the Project Manager for African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities. His research areas include Social Movements, New Media, Digital Humanities, and Critical Race Theory.

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