A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Emily Lynell Edwards explores how office or knowledge work is performed on BeReal. Edwards cautiously explores the consciousness-raising potentials of these performances of work within the platform to illustrate how BeReal reflects broader shifts in contemporary labor politics.
Read moreDafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.
Read moreKate Fortmueller explores the ramifications of contemporary labor conflicts on the entertainment industry in the digital landscape.
Read moreRyan David Briggs describes how The Big Shot with Bethenny reflects the increasing demands of the real world job search.
Read moreAmanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris discuss the myth of high-quality video games coming as a result of overworked video game developers.
Read moreDrawing 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.
Read moreAlison 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.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.
Read moreAnthony 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.
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