A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kathryn Hartzell assesses how the IPL final’s rain delay interrupted transnational flow and exposed the industrial, technological, and ideological arrangements on which sports media operate
Read moreBaker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).
Read moreDr. Jabari Evans muses on Black Twitter and how its culture might continue after its demise.
Read moreDr. Cait McKinney reflects on the heteronormativity of popular discourse on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots.
Read moreDr. Michael Socolow recounts how television coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ignited discussion about the accuracy of television reporting, in addition to raising questions about how viewers interpret TV news.
Read moreDr. Michele White shows how feminist forms of close reading are a productive method for studying digital media and culture.
Read moreKevin Driscoll reconsiders narratives of 1993’s Eternal September to argue these communities were not the end, but the beginning of a more open, inclusive internet.
Read moreMohammed Rashid explores how Twine, a digital media platform, and more specifically, the Queer City interactive project, acts as a clandestine method of queer archiving and archival resistance through which the experiences and stories of the Bangladeshi queer community may be protected, archived, and carefully circulated.
Read moreJennifer Holt analyzes in-house NSA posters from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as articulations of anxieties surrounding security and privacy.
Read moreOften a conversation clouded by taboo, Becky Holt argues the contributions that pornographers have made in technological innovation and in disrupting e-commerce is a narrative overlooked. Learn about adult industry worker Danni Ashe and her online entrepreneurial forays circa the late 90s and early 00s.
Read moreKelly Coyne dissects the racial and gender politics that underlie the “dumb blonde” stereotype.
Read moreDr. Morgan Bimm examines radio as a tool of nationalism and alienation.
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