A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
With 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 moreRamon Lobato explores the challenges in global media distribution by considering Netflix’s efforts to adapt to local conditions, regulations, and audience expectations.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.
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.
Read moreAmanda Phillips writes about the representation of masculinties, particularly through the representation of penises, the omnipresent hardness, and the always absent softness or flaccidity.
Read moreUsing Lifetime’s UnReal as a case study, Jorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard examine the representation of white, liberal, middle-class, educated women in the emerging “Horrible White People” genre on cable and streaming platforms.
Read moreBenjamin Woo questions the positioning of Comics Studies within academia. Bound to both Media Studies and Literature, is either equipped to study the many facets of this interdisciplinary field?
Read moreJuan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the use of cuteness to market VPN privacy and security services illustrates the ideological negotiations with which these user-friendly services must engage.
Read moreAdrienne Massanari argues that Rose McGowan’s recent suspension from Twitter illustrates that social media platforms are far from politically neutral.
Read moreJeremy Wade Morris writes about preserving podcasts and making them more researchable. He enumerates several reasons we should be invested in their longevity and accessibility.
Read moreKate Edwards argues that content creators, especially those with a global audience, must balance carefully between culturalization and censorship in video games and other content.
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