A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Cynthia Meyers explores several Pepsi advertising campaigns dating back to the 1940s to contextualize the company’s latest venture: sponsoring a new game show, Cherries Wild.
Read moreCrystal Camargo grapples with how the cultural specificity of Mindy Kaling’s Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever is diluted by the sonic whiteness of the show’s narrator, John McEnroe.
Read moreErika M. Heredia and Mel Stanfill examine “reactionary influencers,” who combine right-wing politics, reality-TV style provocations, and new social media opportunities for fame and fortune.
Read moreRecounting the case of the bees during the 2018 Columbian Presidential Election, Andres Lombana-Bermudez shows how digital participatory culture can effectively debunk disinformation.
Read moreEleanor Patterson analyzes how the emotional excess of This is Us connects it to historically feminized theorizations of mass culture and melodrama.
Read moreAfter discussing the dreaded weekly discussion post assignment, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez considers the voice memo as a suitable alternative.
Read moreReflecting upon the trauma of living through the Covid-19 pandemic and reckoning with systemic racism, Scott Tulloch suggests trauma informed approaches to media studies pedagogy.
Read moreLooking closely at virtual classroom experiences, Victoria Grace Walden suggests a ‘meta-media studies’ approach to consider how we teach with and about #edtech.
Read moreMeera Govindasamy and Jonathan Petrychyn explore the extra labor of adapting in-person courses to online through the lens of precarious academic employment and maintaining a commitment to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL.)
Read moreMatthew Hale’s video essay reflects on remote teaching and provides a walkthrough of his Keynote workflow.
Read moreReflecting on the shift to online teaching, Sharon Lauricella explores how social media became a venue for teaching and to learn about teaching from the online academic community.
Read morePeter Arne Johnson examines the broader industrial and sociopolitical reverberations of the recent market shortening of Game Stock stock by a community of retail investors from the subreddit r/wallstreetbets.
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