A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Drawing from her own experiences working for ESPN and applying Sara Ahmed’s concept of “complaint as diversity work,” Courtney M. Cox interrogates the lack of diversity in sports media and offers a multi-pronged approach to improving inclusivity in a notoriously white male industry.
Alison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.
Kelly Kessler considers Playing House and the considerable labor performed by its creator/stars Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Claire to nurture the program’s content, advertisers, and fans.
Elizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.
Anthony P. McIntyre reflects on cultural representations of robots as cute in recent films and media, relating such constructions to contemporary capitalist labor dynamics and threats.
