A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Jeremy Wade Morris explores the oddities and challenges that podcasts present as digital objects.
Adrienne Massanari explores why Reddit continues to be a space where communities circulate and engage in toxic speech and behaviors and the platforms lack of accountability.
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explores how the industrial practice of series cross-promotion has evolved into a greater media universe world building in narconovelas.
Benjamin Woo discusses rising tensions over diversity and identity politics within the comics world. Following Gamergate, a “Comicsgate” mentality emerged and continues to affect the industry and its fans.
Kate Edwards considers the importance of understanding cultural context and whether the Internet and social media is contributing to the deteriorating ability of digital natives to be able to contextualize the content they consume.
Tim Havens explores the surge in high-quality black-cast dramas offered by subscription television services. By comparing contemporary series such as Showtime’s The Chi with African American television of the past, Havens asserts the industry is beginning to splinter the African American audience along divisions of taste cultures.
