A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Dr. Crystal Anderson explores how K-pop music maintains relevance beyond the cultural moment, unlike the fast trending nature of other popular Korean music genres.
Read moreLaura C. Brown hops in a warp pipe to explore the world of Super Mario 64 soundfont covers of Beatles albums.
Read moreTara Coughlin examines the usefulness of the creative labor of video essayists to streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Read moreDayna Chatman explores Black fans’ reactions to R&B influences heard and seen in K-pop music and videos.
Read moreUsing Tim and Fred Williams’ musical reaction videos as a case study, María Elena Cepeda discusses racial and generational relations between audiences and content creators as potential drivers of change in production and marketing in the music industry.
Read moreAsh Kinney d’Harcourt examines the complexities in the later in life female-to-male (FTM) transition narratives shared on YouTube. The stories of these late bloomers, and trans elders more broadly, are significant at a time when trans futures are uncertain.
Read moreJudy Mikovitz in Plandemic Misinformation has plagued the public consciousness since the beginning of the written word; however, contemporary fake news has the opportunity to be far more damaging than its historical predecessors. Access to a global information superhighway allows unreliable images, articles, and videos to be shared to millions of people in one instantaneous click. Over the past five […]
Read morePaul Grainge considers the YouTube channel “Periodic Table of Videos. Grainge points to the ways that the channel’s host, Sir Martyn Poliakoff, presents educational, entertaining products to his viewers, while also serving as a promotion for his university and the value of public education broadly.
Read moreCynthia Meyers considers the “friction points” in influencer marketing, assessing the ways in which digital promotions are diverging from traditional advertising approaches and harkening back to earlier forms of sponsored content.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.
Read morePatty Ahn explores how YouTube is helping Korean pop music become a global phenomenon.
Read moreLouisa Stein examines the divide between traditional fan vidding communities and newer fan vidding practices, arguing for the embrace a larger cultural creative framework that honors the specifics of communities and specific fan practices.
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