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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy37
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries23
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region17
Live from the underground: a history of college radio16
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, 211
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries10
Workers’ visibility and union organizing in the UK videogames industry8
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack8
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory7
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn6
Making the past present:Bisbee ‘17and mediated haunting6
Ambient Play4
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory4
Atlas of AI4
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas4
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet3
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
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity3
“The world wants us dead”:stigma and the social construction of health in Pose3
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind3
Hegel in a wired brain3
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency3
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation3
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia3
Manifest destiny 2.0: genre trouble in game worlds2
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor2
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric2
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports2
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa2
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence2
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research1
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
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
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
Social media critical discourse studies1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
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
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb1
Unearthing neoliberal multiculturalism in news discourse: politics of indigeneity & ethnic identity in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast1
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East1
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love1
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online1
Spinning into control: the spin/propaganda thesis challenged0
“Presented as originally created”: how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future0
Black girlhood media studies: bridging multidisciplinary approaches from old to new media0
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note0
“This isn’t a place like Iraq or Afghanistan”: coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Middle Eastern other0
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”0
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland0
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity0
Engaging with culture and modernity: Cultural studies in India0
Double negative: the Black image and popular culture0
When media events fail: the transformation of the Israeli peace discourse at the funeral of Shimon Peres0
Too close, too intimate, and too vulnerable: close reading methodology and the future of feminist game studies0
“America was terrified … of an orange”: using film to subvert hegemonic narratives on Asian identity0
Minorities, free speech and the internet0
Black or Right: anti/racist campus rhetorics0
I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series0
Considering taste after gamification: collective selection, cultural intermediation, and casual gaming0
Towards intersectional and transcultural analysis in the examination of players and game fandoms0
Counted out or taken in: mapping out diversity of journalists in three Indian digital native English newsrooms0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age0
Constructing police as first responders: a critical rhetorical archetype analysis0
Un/recognisable and dis/empowering images of disability: a collective textual analysis of media representations of intellectual disabilities0
A century of repression: the espionage act and freedom of the press,0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies0
White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’sUnorthodox0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism0
Ignoring the blood on the tracks: exits and departures from game studies0
A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone0
Analyzing gamification as capital in social media posts regarding military recruitment0
Cultural Studies, what is it (and is not): once more with feeling0
White masculinity in the “New Cold War”: readingRocky IVandWhite Nightsas multidirectional memories0
Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States0
Review of Social Media and Hate0
The digital lives of black women in Britain (Palgrave Studies in (re)presenting gender0
Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change0
Memes, condensation symbols, and the changing landscape of political rhetoric0
Glitching the simulated carnival: “Girls like us” in MTV's Ex on the Beach0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream0
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts0
The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development0
Between parochialism and planetary in Cultural studies: an interview with Lawrence Grossberg0
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”0
Intersectional Tech: black users in digital gaming0
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television0
“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
SoundCloud Rap: An investigation of community and consumption models of internet practices0
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence0
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
The end of reality: how four billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto0
Decolonizing play0
“Break something!”: Abjection and the mutability of white masculinity in the Woodstock ‘99 documentaries0
Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions0
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements0
“Get Woke, Go Broke”: sport media’s monetization of white male grievance in the age of Trump0
Digital labor in free-to-play games: player as commodity and interaction as labor in MMOGs0
Correction0
The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–20210
Why Wakanda matters: what Black Panther reveals about psychology, identity, and communication0
The next [white] thing: neocolonial white feminism in Disney’s Frozen II0
Diversity is not a win-condition0
Badvertising: an exposé0
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy0
Public goods and private interests: setting the table for the commercial internet in the 1990s0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity0
Infrastructures of flow: streaming media as elemental media0
The visual clichés of legal cannabis promotion on social media0
Performativity, mediarchy, and politics: the sitcom’s anonymized critique0
Assessing inequalities in storytelling & narrative media: conceptualizing a Freirean methodology0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent0
Opening the gates: defining a model of intersectional journalism0
Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King0
TikTok cultures in the United States0
Black girl joy in the media: an intergenerational perspective0
Distancing representations in transgender film: Identification, affect, and the audience0
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare0
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere0
Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton0
Black vegan rhetoric: race, healing, and conflict in Black women’s blog posts0
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life0
Priming “American carnage:” reality television and Donald J. Trump0
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic0
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin0
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
The Strong Black Women of the film American Fiction: An Exploration Using the Africana Media Representations Quadrants Model0
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans0
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt0
Migrants and refugees in Southern Europe beyond the news stories: photographs, hate, and journalists’ perceptions0
Going off scripts: emotional labor and technoliberal managerialism0
“Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction0
“The future of media studies is game studies”0
“The revolution will be hilarious: comedy for social change and civic power”0
More than a glitch: confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization throughShingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality0
Trafficking data0
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners0
Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter0
Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: children, peace communication and socialization0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures 0
Superman, superwoman, or superhero? A thematic analysis of Reddit user discussions of female superheroes0
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away0
Correction0
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube0
Mediated misogynoir: erasing Black women’s and girls’ innocence in the public imagination0
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
Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media0
Oprah and Ozempic: a commentary on Oprah Winfrey’s “shame, blame and the weight loss revolution”0
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