A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Benjamin Woo questions the positioning of Comics Studies within academia. Bound to both Media Studies and Literature, is either equipped to study the many facets of this interdisciplinary field?
Read moreJuan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the use of cuteness to market VPN privacy and security services illustrates the ideological negotiations with which these user-friendly services must engage.
Read moreAdrienne Massanari argues that Rose McGowan’s recent suspension from Twitter illustrates that social media platforms are far from politically neutral.
Read moreJeremy Wade Morris writes about preserving podcasts and making them more researchable. He enumerates several reasons we should be invested in their longevity and accessibility.
Read moreKate Edwards argues that content creators, especially those with a global audience, must balance carefully between culturalization and censorship in video games and other content.
Read moreTim Havens considers Netflix as a case study to develop a typology for studying the role of algorithmic audience analysis in commercial African American streaming culture.
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