A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Zizi Li discusses Shudu and the practice of creating virtual 3-D Black models and influencers, exploring the post-racial politics and commodification of Black labor and femininity in fashion and social media.
Read moreZizi Li explores what influencer Imma’s virtual images convey about digital and physical realities.
Read moreAmazon Prime has officially entered into the world of fashion reality TV with new show, Making the Cut. Danielle Williams analyzes the implications of Amazon utilizing livestream shopping as a tool to expand its platform.
Read moreMeg Hansen describes the “styled identity” and its articulation in Gossip Girl (2007-2012), demonstrating the dialogic between aesthetics and female identities, self-presentation and selfhood, in the specular economies of postmodern media and culture.
Read moreRating the Runway: Project Runway and New York Fashion Week
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
Project Runway is an example of how recent reality television shows rely on viewer responses to help construct the narrative. the show maintains a distinct textual presence while they advocate viewer participation, play with the idea of permeable and non-permeable textual boundaries and highlight the different ways in which we can access ‘the real world.’