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Activism or Performative Activism?: Investigating Jimmy Butler’s “No Name” NBA Jersey
Jas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington, seattle

October 26, 2020 Jas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington One comment

Jas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph illustrate the power and limitations of players’ voices in the midst of branded corporate activism.

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Witness Me: How Tiktok Users Broke With the Sociopathic American Gaze in the Wake of George Floyd’s Murder
Alex Hack / University of Southern California

September 27, 2020 Alex Hack / University of Southern California Leave a comment

Considering generational trauma along with TikTok’s algorithm, Alex Hack discusses the many TikToks that were widely circulated in response to the murder of George Floyd and how they, in many ways, managed to break past the logic of Americana.

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Gay Democratic Socialist Disruption on Television in 1971
Finley Freibert / University of Louisville

April 6, 2020 Finley Freibert / Independent Scholar 2 comments

Finley Freibert intervenes with traditional interpolations of gay activism in the 1960s and 1970s to investigate media activism performed in the name of gay and democratic socialist liberation.

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A Pedagogical Experiment in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina

February 26, 2017 Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina 2 comments

Susan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”

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Laughter in the Age of Trump
Maggie Hennefeld / University of Minnesota

December 18, 2016 Maggie Hennefeld / University of Minnesota 3 comments

Maggie Hennefeld explores the use of humor in the contemporary political landscape, and suggests we need to find a way to employ satire to repoliticize civic discourse in American society.

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From Squid Game pop-ups to Netflix House installations, Hyun-Jung Stephany Noh traces how dystopian K-dramas become immersive, branded experiences. Her essay shows how Netflix turns speculative fiction into a global marketing spectacle
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Helen Piper examines the show The Assembly and compares the UK & Australian versions. In doing so, she reveals how format and post-production choices shape risk, reciprocity, and the politics of inclusion.

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Guillermina Zabala Suárez asks: Can digital media become a device to create awareness of health issues in out communities?

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In a new essay, @LaurelPRogers examines the role of the fanboy auteur in HBO's backstage comedy "The Franchise," which satirizes Hollywood's superhero industrial complex. Read: https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/07/fanboy-auteur-hbo-franchise/

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