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Home Is Where the Ok Is? Early Okayplayer Message Boards & an Ethos of Acknowledgment
Social Media + Society ( IF 4.636 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 , DOI: 10.1177/20563051221117570
Antoine Hardy

In this essay, the author considers the online community of Okayplayer (OKP) as a pivotal progenitor in the development of a Black digital ethos. In particular, the author situates and interrogates Okayplayer as a “dwelling space” where self-identified Black identities developed digital voices and a communal ethic of acknowledgment. Indeed, 5 years before Facebook, and 7 years before Twitter; Okayplayer was a social media precursor—made for and by black folks. Prior to social media era, the OKP message boards were the rare space where black digital voices could be heard and acknowledged by peers and fellow recording artists such as Erykah Badu—a digital home or dwelling space. In this essay, I sample and extend Hyde’s redefinition of ethos as “home”; to online communities of color. Hence, this essay retrospectively examines OKP’s digital ethos as a cultural communal co-production where “discourse is used to transform space and time into dwelling places where people can deliberate about and know together some matter of interest” (p. xiii). By viewing OKP as discursive site, the paper interrogates the function of rhetorical voice in establishing dwelling spaces. My critical lens is informed by Mitra and Watts advocacy of marginalized digital voice. Voice is actualized as an architectural event, only when it is acknowledged. In relation to OKP, Watts contends that historically, Black voices that find acknowledgment develop a dwelling place based on ” a sort of collaboration..as a kind of “magic” by a communal will.



中文翻译:

家在哪里?早期 Okayplayer 留言板和承认精神

在这篇文章中,作者认为 Okayplayer (OKP) 的在线社区是黑人数字精神发展的关键先驱。特别是,作者将 Okayplayer 定位和审问为一个“居住空间”,自我认同的黑人身份在这里发展出数字声音和公共认同伦理。确实,比 Facebook 早 5 年,比 Twitter 早 7 年;Okayplayer 是社交媒体的先驱——为黑人制作并由黑人制作。在社交媒体时代之前,OKP 留言板是少数可以听到黑人数字声音并被同行和录音艺术家(如 Erykah Badu)认可的空间——一个数字家庭或居住空间。在这篇文章中,我对海德对“家”的精神重新定义进行了抽样和扩展;到有色人种的在线社区。因此,这篇文章回顾性地研究了 OKP 的数字精神,将其视为一种文化公共共同生产,其中“话语被用来将空间和时间转变为人们可以一起思考和了解一些感兴趣的问题的居住场所”(第 xiii 页)。通过将OKP视为话语场所,本文质疑修辞声音在建立居住空间中的作用。Mitra 和 Watts 对边缘化数字语音的倡导为我的批判性视角提供了信息。语音被实现为建筑事件,只有当它被确认时。关于 OKP,Watts 认为,从历史上看,获得认可的黑人声音发展了一个基于“一种合作”的居所……作为一种公共意志的“魔法”。

更新日期:2022-09-06
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