YouTube is Taking K-Pop Global
Patty Ahn / University of California San Diego
Patty Ahn explores how YouTube is helping Korean pop music become a global phenomenon.
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Listening—Finally—to Soundtrack Albums
Paul N. Reinsch / Texas Tech University
Paul Reinsch explores the unacknowledged cultural significance of soundtrack albums.
Read moredicks dicks dicks: Hardness and Flaccidity in (Virtual) Masculinity
Amanda Phillips / Georgetown University
Amanda Phillips writes about the representation of masculinties, particularly through the representation of penises, the omnipresent hardness, and the always absent softness or flaccidity.
Read moreLiberal Women, Mental Illness, and Precarious Whiteness in Trump’s America
Jorie Lagerwey / University College Dublin
Taylor Nygaard / University of Denver
Using 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 moreComics ↔ Media: Comics Aren’t Literature, and That’s Fine
Benjamin Woo / Carleton University
Benjamin 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 moreThe Cuteness of Tunneling Media
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Texas at Dallas
Juan 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 moreRose McGowan and the “Neutrality” of Social Media Platforms
Adrienne Massanari / University of Illinois at Chicago
Adrienne Massanari argues that Rose McGowan’s recent suspension from Twitter illustrates that social media platforms are far from politically neutral.
Read moreSaving New Sounds: Podcasts and Preservation
Jeremy Wade Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeremy 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 moreHow Adapting Content to Cultural Expectations Intersects with the Practice of Censorship
Kate Edwards / Geogrify
Kate Edwards argues that content creators, especially those with a global audience, must balance carefully between culturalization and censorship in video games and other content.
Read moreThe Algorithmic Audience and African American Media Cultures
Tim Havens / University of Iowa
Tim Havens considers Netflix as a case study to develop a typology for studying the role of algorithmic audience analysis in commercial African American streaming culture.
Read moreWelcome to Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture Cameron Lindsey & Lesley Willard
Cameron Lindsey and Lesley Willard, the Managing Editors for Volume 24 of Flow, introduce a special issue that ushers in the journal’s new, broader focus on media and culture.
Read moreReflections of an Unintentional and Underqualified Social Media Micro-influencer Lego Grad Student / Somewhere on the West Coast
The creator of the popular “webcomic,” Lego Grad Student, reflects on becoming a “micro-influencer,” the emotional toll of academia, and the function of social media with a dose of dry wit.
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