A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Germaine Halegoua explores how users seem to appreciate Internet of Everything technologies for playful engagements or misuse rather than their utilitarian efficiencies.
Read moreRooplai Mukherjee explores how post-truth/post-fact political scripts are contested by empirical and racial counter-knowledges of the marginalized public spheres that they simultaneously attempt to silence.
Read moreNeta Alexander explores the mechanical gaze of machine-made film and video, particularly Roomba films, contextualizing them within the long tradition of non-human cinema that challenges our anthropocentric perspective.
Read moreAlexis Carreiro explores the “year of the period,” i.e., the recent pro-period movement to free women’s menstrual cycles from their cultural stigma.
Read moreCasey McCormick examines what she calls “Netflix poetics” to explore how the proliferation of video-on-demand services such as Netflix is changing the way we watch and experience TV finales.
Read moreStephanie Brown explores the ways in which entrenched taste cultures and gendered hierarchies led critics to dismiss and disparage Oxygen’s docu-drama Funny Girls.
Read moreD. Jordan Davis explores the recent trend of kids cooking shows, examining both the positive and negative implications such competitive shows have on young people who want to cook.
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