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Watching Woke: An Exercise in Restraining Our Burden of Representation
Laura Irwin and Ralina L. Joseph / University of WashingtonThrough analysis of Hulu’s Woke, Laura Irwin and Ralina L. Joseph explore the complexities of the burden of representation that Black TV faces.
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Women Horror Hosts in the Southern United States, 1957-1960
Caroline N. Bayne / University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesCaroline N. Bayne takes a closer look at the women behind the iconic horror personas working in Southern U.S. television during the 1950s.
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Re-Watching Omar: Moesha, Black Gayness and Shifting Media Reception
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. / University of IowaAlfred L. Martin, Jr.’s media reception analysis explores how viewers make sense of 1990s representations of Black queer characters in UPN’s Moesha (1996-2001).
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Adiós, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett: Or Why Sofía Vergara Sometimes Makes Me Cry
María Elena Cepeda / Williams CollegeAfter discussing current scholarship on Sofía Vergara’s portrayal of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, María Elena Cepeda proposes contextualizing Vergara’s Caribbean and diasporic identity, her class positionality, her gendered subjectivity, and her racial location for future scholarship on Vergara’s character.
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Substack Will Not Save Us
Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin, MadisonExploring the design and economics of the newsletter platform Substack, Austin Morris considers both its positive and negative implications for the future of digital media work.
Over*Flow

Over*Flow: “The Sun is Shining on AMC”: Meme Stocks & (Temporary?) Media Industry Reorganization
Peter Arne Johnson / Boston University
Peter Arne Johnson examines the broader industrial and sociopolitical reverberations of the recent market shortening of Game Stock stock by a community of retail investors from the subreddit r/wallstreetbets.