Critical Studies in Media Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Studies in Media Communication is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries44
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries23
Review of influential machines: The rhetoric of computational performance19
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region19
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy12
Latin Blackness in Parisian visual culture, 1852–1932 Latin Blackness in Parisian visual culture, 1852–1932 , by Lyneise E. Williams, New York, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 28
Live from the underground: a history of college radio8
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory6
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack6
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn5
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas5
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon5
Imperiled whiteness: how hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America5
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet4
Ambient Play4
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation4
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory4
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency3
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence3
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model3
Sustaining Black music and culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine Sustaining Black music and culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine , edited 3
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice3
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity3
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind3
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia3
Digital masquerade: Feminist rights and queer media in China3
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East2
Social media critical discourse studies2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa2
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports2
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor2
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin2
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
Blaming Blackness: Travis Scott, the Astroworld concert tragedy, and news media’s racialized search for responsibility2
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb1
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love1
Toward an historical organic ideology: Thatcherism, Trumpism, and Stuart Hall’s engagement with organic ideology1
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship1
Rhetoric, religion, and tragic violence: sacred succor and rancor1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com1
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism1
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict1
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note1
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online1
SoundCloud Rap: An investigation of community and consumption models of internet practices0
Migration journalists and social media: “walking the line” in a love/hate paradox0
Not my type: automating sexual racism in online dating0
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt0
“Who is a witch?” Feminist afterlives of the witch: Popular culture, memory, activism0
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies0
Cultural Studies, what is it (and is not): once more with feeling0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream0
Bunker wombs, open worlds, and other post-apocalyptic containers0
Pandemic death discourse: denial, disparity and the promise of communication0
Why Wakanda matters: what Black Panther reveals about psychology, identity, and communication0
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements0
Superman, superwoman, or superhero? A thematic analysis of Reddit user discussions of female superheroes0
Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance0
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality0
I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet0
Containing feminism at games industry parties0
Minorities, free speech and the internet0
“Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media0
Securing the prize: presidential metaphor and U.S. intervention in the Persian gulf0
Badvertising: an exposé0
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability0
Digital labor in free-to-play games: player as commodity and interaction as labor in MMOGs0
Contemporary Disney animation: genre, gender and Hollywood0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America0
Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States0
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”0
White masculinity in the “New Cold War”: readingRocky IVandWhite Nightsas multidirectional memories0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Digital Black feminism0
When media events fail: the transformation of the Israeli peace discourse at the funeral of Shimon Peres0
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown0
Vlogging truth to power: a study of the postcolonial rhetoric of disenfranchised Ghanaian migrants’ political vlogs0
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording0
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television0
“I’m speaking:” VP Kamala Harris’ social media campaign in the 2020 election0
“America was terrified … of an orange”: using film to subvert hegemonic narratives on Asian identity0
Unzipping my library: containing the Game Boy’s history in the Analogue Pocket0
Sound tactics: auditory power in political protests0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts0
Ignoring the blood on the tracks: exits and departures from game studies0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity0
Infrastructures of flow: streaming media as elemental media0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent0
Design communication: design of objects in life and public diplomacy0
The new generation in Chinese animation0
A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone0
Correction0
Shutting down the Crossfire: lessons on digitality from the short history of Apple AirDrop0
Data grab: the new colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back0
“This isn’t a place like Iraq or Afghanistan”: coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Middle Eastern other0
Refusing sexual advances: the management of (un)willingness in verbal and nonverbal rejections0
Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene0
The revolution will be hilarious: comedy for social change and civic power0
“Get Woke, Go Broke”: sport media’s monetization of white male grievance in the age of Trump0
Navigating the global-local nexus in Indigenous African language television0
The rhetoric of outrage: Why social media is making us angry0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–20210
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film0
Beyond loyalty to family and state: building pan-Chinese filial nationalism in Mulan (2020)0
The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging0
Decolonizing play0
Trump and the truthers: populist demophobia and the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory0
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, disinformation, and social media0
Analyzing gamification as capital in social media posts regarding military recruitment0
The end of reality: how four billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto0
Digital games after climate change0
Distancing representations in transgender film: Identification, affect, and the audience0
Digital racial: algorithmic violence and digital platforms0
White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’sUnorthodox0
The “perfect” filtered look? A multimodal critical discourse analysis of TikTok #beautyfilters0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures 0
Advertising disability0
Cashing in on the chaos: the politics of sports betting and the 2020 U.S. presidential election0
Spinning into control: the spin/propaganda thesis challenged0
Black girlhood media studies: bridging multidisciplinary approaches from old to new media0
The next [white] thing: neocolonial white feminism in Disney’s Frozen II0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity0
Unravelling disability in the reality show Down the Road0
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below0
Too close, too intimate, and too vulnerable: close reading methodology and the future of feminist game studies0
Engaging with culture and modernity: Cultural studies in India0
Oprah and Ozempic: a commentary on Oprah Winfrey’s “shame, blame and the weight loss revolution”0
Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions0
Race and environmental justice in the era of climate change and COVID-190
TikTok cultures in the United States0
Glitching the simulated carnival: “Girls like us” in MTV's Ex on the Beach0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter0
Correction0
TV (Object Lessons)0
The role of news coverage in constructing the putative voter: a critical discourse analysis of local news coverage of same-sex marriage0
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy0
Mediated misogynoir: erasing Black women’s and girls’ innocence in the public imagination0
“Presented as originally created”: how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future0
Diversity is not a win-condition0
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series0
Counted out or taken in: mapping out diversity of journalists in three Indian digital native English newsrooms0
The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age0
Priming “American carnage:” reality television and Donald J. Trump0
Going off scripts: emotional labor and technoliberal managerialism0
“We have a lot weighing on us:” a Black Feminist analysis of U.S. newspaper quotes of Black women in year 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic0
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere0
Towards intersectional and transcultural analysis in the examination of players and game fandoms0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum0
Review of Social Media and Hate0
Migrants and refugees in Southern Europe beyond the news stories: photographs, hate, and journalists’ perceptions0
Black vegan rhetoric: race, healing, and conflict in Black women’s blog posts0
Double negative: the Black image and popular culture0
More than a glitch: confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech0
Black girl joy in the media: an intergenerational perspective0
“Break something!”: Abjection and the mutability of white masculinity in the Woodstock ‘99 documentaries0
Contested airwaves: American radio at home and abroad, 1914–19460
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”0
Between parochialism and planetary in Cultural studies: an interview with Lawrence Grossberg0
A century of repression: the espionage act and freedom of the press,0
From postmodernism to metamodernism: Asian American identities and representations in everything everywhere all at once0
Trafficking data0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland0
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away0
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement0
Digital labor turn: the impact of assetization in digital games0
Petrochemical fantasies: the art and energy of American comics0
Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors0
In the Spirit of ʔAtatíc̓eʔ : telling decolonial allotment stories amid pending litigation0
“The future of media studies is game studies”0
Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King0
Assessing inequalities in storytelling & narrative media: conceptualizing a Freirean methodology0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization throughShingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime0
The Strong Black Women of the film American Fiction: An Exploration Using the Africana Media Representations Quadrants Model0
Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change0
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire0
Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America0
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