A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
After discussing current scholarship on Sofía Vergara’s portrayal of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, María Elena Cepeda proposes contextualizing Vergara’s Caribbean and diasporic identity, her class positionality, her gendered subjectivity, and her racial location for future scholarship on Vergara’s character.
Read moreChristina N. Baker incorporates thinking on poetry, hip hop, and creativity to consider Black artistry in Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old-Version.
Read moreUsing professional wrestling as a case study to analyze unofficial broadcast distribution, Eleanor Patterson analyzes the role of tape trading and fan communities to the circulation of pro-wrestling media.
Read moreAmanda C. Cote and Caden Perry discuss the racialized aspects of character creation in role-playing games.
Read moreAndres Lombana-Bermudez explores Educomunicación, a media literacy movement from Latin America that inspires creative action and transformation.
Read moreIn tracing a variety of fan reactions to the critically acclaimed shows Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, Tia Alphonse illustrates how the representational and historiographic work of these programs offer exciting new directions for Black content as not only profitable to Black producers and actors, but as culturally transformative forces for a generation starved of authentic Black portrayals.
Read moreUsing new media cooperative Defector as a case study, Austin Morris explores the ethics of online content production and what it means to do “good work” in the digital content industries.
Read moreThough TikTok’s algorithm appears to be highly personalized by your taste, the company’s algorithm may not have this in mind. Andrea Ruehlicke investigates issues of agency and implications of presuming the personal is self-determined.
Read moreLooking at artists like Lil Nas X, Abigail Barlow, and Absofacto, Meghan Grosse explores how viral success on TikTok is affecting the mainstream music industry.
Read moreHazem Fahmy analyzes Netflix’s recent acquisition of Egyptian films, television series, and plays.
Read moreCáel Keegan revisits Sleepaway Camp in his final installment of “In Praise of the Bad Transgender Object” to reveal its sympathetic trans masculine subtext.
Read moreJennifer Hessler discusses the place of Nielsen and comScore’s ratings panels in the digital age.
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