A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Cynthia Meyers theorizes the “family brand,” discussing examples from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Read moreAndres Lombana-Bermudez reflects on how Colombian public school systems utilized Information Communication Technologies (ICT) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreLauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill examine COVID-19 fan fiction on the Archive of Our Own to see whose experiences of the virus are present—and absent—in these stories.
Read moreAmanda 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.
Read moreEleanor Patterson analyzes Hulu’s initial aim of adapting broadcast distribution logics into streaming distribution and the service’s contemporary shift to an “Adult Disney” service.
Read moreDayna Chatman explores Black fans’ reactions to R&B influences heard and seen in K-pop music and videos.
Read moreAlfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.
Read moreLando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph illuminate some of the ways critical Black audiences resist culture vultures, digital Blackface, and performative activism.
Read moreExploring the intertexuality of The CW’s Riverdale (2017–present), Caroline N. Bayne focuses on the way that the series exploits the tension between midcentury nostalgia and the darker teen pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s.
Read moreBy considering the visceral response Latinx viewers have to images of terror, Orquidea Morales argues that we can expand the generic boundaries of Latinx horror to include films that examine the violence of migration and borders.
Read moreAmanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris discuss the myth of high-quality video games coming as a result of overworked video game developers.
Read moreDrawing on examples such as NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert and Instagram’s Verzuz battles, Alyx Vesey explores how musicians have utilized online platforms as alternatives to live concerts in the age of COVID-19.
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