A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Ramon Lobato discusses the emergence of IPTV (internet protocol television) piracy and considers the trend’s implications for global television markets, cultures, and flows.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso considers Taylor Swift’s use of banal imaging via social media as a promotional technique.
Read morePaul Reinsch explores the complicated definition of soundtracks, and its meaning for the media industries more widely.
Read moreJorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard analyze Broad City as a case study for the racial discourses of female friendships in television’s Horrible White People comedies.
Read moreAdrienne Massanari explores why Reddit continues to be a space where communities circulate and engage in toxic speech and behaviors and the platforms lack of accountability.
Read moreBenjamin Woo discusses rising tensions over diversity and identity politics within the comics world. Following Gamergate, a “Comicsgate” mentality emerged and continues to affect the industry and its fans.
Read moreTim Havens explores the surge in high-quality black-cast dramas offered by subscription television services. By comparing contemporary series such as Showtime’s The Chi with African American television of the past, Havens asserts the industry is beginning to splinter the African American audience along divisions of taste cultures.
Read moreJustin Wyatt considers discourses on digital and television advertising and considers how the truisms of television marketing are being revised, reformed, and sometimes simply rejected by the new variety of options for TV consumption.
Read moreCynthia Meyers considers the “friction points” in influencer marketing, assessing the ways in which digital promotions are diverging from traditional advertising approaches and harkening back to earlier forms of sponsored content.
Read moreWith the casualization of labor and the instability of the job market, precarity has become an increasingly pressing issue for both the media industries and the academy. Equally precarious is the state of preservation, as the production and circulation of media content outstrips the resources and workforce assigned to preserve it. Woven throughout and between precarity and preservation is praxis, […]
Read morePatty Ahn explores how YouTube is helping Korean pop music become a global phenomenon.
Read morePaul Reinsch explores the unacknowledged cultural significance of soundtrack albums.
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