A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Nina Linhales Barker discusses the complications of Latina fans wanting to see themselves represented in Netflix’s Bridgerton.
Read moreReflecting on the shift to online teaching, Sharon Lauricella explores how social media became a venue for teaching and to learn about teaching from the online academic community.
Read moreKathy Cacace considers the limitations and possibilities of sousveillance to interrupt white supremacy, drawing examples from the Black Lives Matter uprising during the summer of 2020.
Read moreSarah Florini considers how the intersections of social media, race, intellectual property and fair use require a shift in thinking from issues of legality to issues of power.
Read moreMaggie Steinhauer explores interactive voting methods for reality competition programs and the impact of Twitter #Save features on live television.
Read moreAdrienne Massanari argues that Rose McGowan’s recent suspension from Twitter illustrates that social media platforms are far from politically neutral.
Read moreCasey McCormick uses the Twitter reaction to the end of the Obama administration as a jumping off point to explain why finales matter and how audiences express an ambivalence regarding the ends of longform televisual storytelling.
Read moreSushant Kishore explores digital media, the performance of communitas and political partisanship, and posthuman social media communities through a comparative discussion of India’s 2014 General Election and the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election.
Read moreMichael Newman examines the legacy of 1960s anti-Vietnam War teach-ins in relation to Twitter and contemporary debates about — and curtailments of — academic freedom, political speech, and public pedagogies within higher education institutions.
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