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Logged in to You: Negotiating Algorithmic Address in Streaming Women’s Television
Cara Dickason / Northwestern University

December 7, 2021 Cara Dickason / Northwestern University Leave a comment

Cara Dickason explores the relationship between women’s television and streaming services through the Netflix series, You.

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On the (In)Visibility of Female Gamers
Amanda C. Cote / University Of Oregon

June 4, 2021 Amanda C. Cote / University of Oregon One comment

Amanda C. Cote challenges the idea that women in gaming is a new trend, exploring how a continual surprise at women’s presence in gaming communities undermines their historical contributions in the field.

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Into the Glow: Glossier’s Emily Weiss and Millennial Entrepreneurism
Elizabeth Affuso / Pitzer College

May 29, 2018 Elizabeth Affuso / Pitzer College 6 comments

Elizabeth Affuso explores the dewy aesthetics and commodity feminism of Glossier, a makeup, media, and lifestyle brand.

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TV Critics and Taste Culture, or Why Everyone Ignored Oxygen’s Funny Girls
Stephanie Brown / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

March 27, 2017 Stephanie Brown / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One comment

Stephanie Brown explores the ways in which entrenched taste cultures and gendered hierarchies led critics to dismiss and disparage Oxygen’s docu-drama Funny Girls.

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My Life with Mary: Remembering The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh

February 19, 2017 Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh One comment

Jane Feuer looks back on what The Mary Tyler Moore Show meant to her as a college student and then as a television scholar.

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Ghostbusters, Queef Jokes, and a Woman’s Right to Make Noise
Alexis Carreiro / Queens University of Charlotte

January 22, 2017 Alexis Carreiro / Queens University of Charlotte 7 comments

Alexis Carreiro explores Ghostbusters‘s (2016) deployment of a queef joke in relation to the gendered history of fart jokes and the feminist implications of and social strictures against women making noise, both bodily and politically.

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A Sound History of Gender and Radio in South America 
 Christine Ehrick / University of Louisville 

May 19, 2015 Christine Ehrick / University of Louisville One comment

In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Christine Ehrick examines gendered soundspaces in the history of radio in South America.

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In "Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”" Andrew Stubbs-Lacy explores representation & construction of management in football with a focus on Welcome to Wrexham. Read: http://tinyurl.com/4z7wkuk8

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