Critical Studies in Media Communication

Article	Citations
Review of influential machines: The rhetoric of computational performance	49
On Black Media Philosophy	24
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region	24
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, 2	24
“This is my spot. It’s all mine.”: The queer anatopism of place in Call Me by Your Name	13
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries	9
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy	7
Imperiled whiteness: how hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America	6
Live from the underground: a history of college radio	6
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon	6
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack	5
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas	4
The rhetoric of white slavery and the making of national identity	4
The growing non-commercial basis of U.S. journalism employment: evidence from one city, 2015–2025	4
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory	4
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn	4
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency	3
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence	3
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity	3
Critical security studies in the digital age: social media and security	3
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 justice	3
Unearthing the constraints in media and communication research in Africa: a path to building resilience towards the decolonization agenda	3
Digital masquerade: Feminist rights and queer media in China	3
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet	3

“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind	3
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation	3
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad	3
Media and the affective life of slavery	2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures	2
Formatting resistance: the storage politics of game mods	2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa	2
A Review of Sonic sovereignty: hip hop, Indigeneity, and shifting popular music mainstreams	2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric	2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas	2
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor	2
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East	2
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good	2
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model	2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order	2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press	2
Blaming Blackness: Travis Scott, the Astroworld concert tragedy, and news media’s racialized search for responsibility	2
Social media critical discourse studies	2
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism	1
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict	1
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability	1
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”	1
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online	1
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note	1
Radiophonic feminisms: Latina voices in the digital age of broadcasting	1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show	1
Women comedians in the digital age: media work and critical reputations after Trump	1
From the bathroom of platform governance: Twitch, container tech & hot tub media	1
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com	1
Toward an historical organic ideology: Thatcherism, Trumpism, and Stuart Hall’s engagement with organic ideology	1
The “perfect” filtered look? A multimodal critical discourse analysis of TikTok #beautyfilters	1
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life	1
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare	1
Rogue , procedural generation, and computers as containers	1
Mentorship and the role of the Book Reviews Editor in the future of scholarly publishing	1
Spanish-language television: cultural and industrial transformations	1
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers	1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)	1
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin	1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	1
The police killing of Amir Locke: a critical discourse analysis of the press conference held by Minneapolis’s mayor, the interim police chief, and the response by activists	1
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship	1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images	1
Rhetoric, religion, and tragic violence: sacred succor and rancor	1
Nigerian media industries in the era of globalization	1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love	1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes	1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)	1
Unravelling disability in the reality show Down the Road	0

From postmodernism to metamodernism: Asian American identities and representations in everything everywhere all at once	0
Black vegan rhetoric: race, healing, and conflict in Black women’s blog posts	0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy	0
Design communication: design of objects in life and public diplomacy	0
If you love her, (don’t) let her go: generative “holding back” and the de-containment of the Nancy Drew PC games	0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity	0
Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton	0
Contested airwaves: American radio at home and abroad, 1914–1946	0
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film	0
Distancing representations in transgender film: Identification, affect, and the audience	0
Unzipping my library: containing the Game Boy’s history in the Analogue Pocket	0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland	0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures	0
“Presented as originally created”: how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future	0
Digital Black feminism	0
A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone	0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts	0
Sound tactics: auditory power in political protests	0
Digital games after climate change	0
The gentrification of the internet: how to reclaim our digital freedom	0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream	0
Horror framing and the general election: ghosts and ghouls in twenty-first-century presidential campaign advertisements	0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent	0
The role of news coverage in constructing the putative voter: a critical discourse analysis of local news coverage of same-sex marriage	0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum	0
The new generation in Chinese animation	0
The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging	0
The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development	0
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt	0
Not my type: automating sexual racism in online dating	0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality	0
“Each character you create requires a full 15 blocks!” preserving video game memory cards in the age of cloud storage	0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction	0
From a whisper to a movement: investigating the shared rhetorical spaces of whistleblowing and social protest	0
Correction	0
Clouding the sun: storing and distributing low-carbon games	0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media	0
Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance	0
The secrets of silence: the everyday policing of Black women and their stories about violence	0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism	0
Contemporary Disney animation: genre, gender and Hollywood	0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin	0
I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet	0
Shutting down the Crossfire: lessons on digitality from the short history of Apple AirDrop	0
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below	0
Double negative: the Black image and popular culture	0
Navigating the global-local nexus in Indigenous African language television	0
Patient sense: rhetorical body work in the age of technology	0
Negative media: erasure and the limits of retention	0
Mapping the stars: celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity	0
Too close, too intimate, and too vulnerable: close reading methodology and the future of feminist game studies	0
“I’m speaking:” VP Kamala Harris’ social media campaign in the 2020 election	0
“America was terrified … of an orange”: using film to subvert hegemonic narratives on Asian identity	0
Digital authoritarianism in the making: repression and resistance on the Russian internet	0
Media materialities: form, format, and ephemeral meaning	0
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown	0
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners	0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions	0
Correction	0
Petrochemical fantasies: the art and energy of American comics	0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”	0
Pandemic death discourse: denial, disparity and the promise of communication	0
A century of repression: the espionage act and freedom of the press,	0
AI for communication	0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization throughShingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime	0
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television	0
Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors	0
The generic closet: Black gayness and the Black-cast sitcom	0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series	0
Forms as the Fordization of communication	0
Dismantling cultural borders through social media and digital communications: how networked communities compromise identity	0
“Get Woke, Go Broke”: sport media’s monetization of white male grievance in the age of Trump	0
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic	0
The well-read game: on playing thoughtfully	0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity	0
Glitching the simulated carnival: “Girls like us” in MTV's Ex on the Beach	0
TikTok cultures in the United States	0
Decolonizing play	0
Bunker wombs, open worlds, and other post-apocalyptic containers	0

Race and environmental justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19	0
TV (Object Lessons)	0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence	0
Misguided: where misinformation starts, how it spreads, and what to do about it	0
“Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”	0
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere	0
The revolution will be hilarious: comedy for social change and civic power	0
Unity and the Story of “9/12”: sport, public memory, and the rhetorical reinvention of 9/11	0
WhatsApp in the world: disinformation, encryption, and extreme speech	0
Analyzing gamification as capital in social media posts regarding military recruitment	0
“Who is a witch?” Feminist afterlives of the witch: Popular culture, memory, activism	0
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements	0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America	0
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube	0
“I’ll take Cthulhu over you devils any day”: refiguring anti-Black monstrosity in “The Horror at Red Hook” through The Ballad of Black Tom	0
Black girl joy in the media: an intergenerational perspective	0
Resistance is futile: racism, power, and complicity in Lifetime’s Dance Moms	0
Migrants and refugees in Southern Europe beyond the news stories: photographs, hate, and journalists’ perceptions	0
The lost chance in China and the rise of cold war populism	0
Radical hospitality: American policy, media, and immigration	0
Minorities, free speech and the internet	0
News in their pockets: a cross-city comparative study of mobile news consumption in Asia	0
The art of memes in feminist digital culture	0
Survival of the Thickest as discursive resistance: rewriting the fat narrative in media	0
Mediated misogynoir: erasing Black women’s and girls’ innocence in the public imagination	0
The rhetoric of outrage: Why social media is making us angry	0
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, disinformation, and social media	0
American medium: a new film philosophy	0
“The future of media studies is game studies”	0
The next [white] thing: neocolonial white feminism in Disney’s Frozen II	0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies	0
In the Spirit of ʔAtatíc̓eʔ : telling decolonial allotment stories amid pending litigation	0
Black girlhood media studies: bridging multidisciplinary approaches from old to new media	0
Vlogging truth to power: a study of the postcolonial rhetoric of disenfranchised Ghanaian migrants’ political vlogs	0
Truth be told: white nostalgia and antiracist queer resistance in “post-truth” America	0
Oprah and Ozempic: a commentary on Oprah Winfrey’s “shame, blame and the weight loss revolution”	0
Cashing in on the chaos: the politics of sports betting and the 2020 U.S. presidential election	0
Be super, be white: perceptions of representation and inclusion in superhero films from a Mexican audience	0
The Strong Black Women of the film American Fiction: An Exploration Using the Africana Media Representations Quadrants Model	0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America	0
Satellite archaeologies: restoring the Satellaview’s abandoned software ecosystem	0
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording	0
Securing the prize: presidential metaphor and U.S. intervention in the Persian gulf	0
Badvertising: an exposé	0
Intersectional activism in environmental communication: changemakers respond to ecological crises	0
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away	0
Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change	0
The erotic as rhetorical power: archives of romantic friendship between women teachers	0
Containing feminism at games industry parties	0
Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States	0
Playing in postmortem: link rot, memory decay, and haunting archives at the end of the world	0
Containing games	0
Refusing sexual advances: the management of (un)willingness in verbal and nonverbal rejections	0
Digital labor in free-to-play games: player as commodity and interaction as labor in MMOGs	0
What does anon want of me? De-idealizing transgender digital media on 4chan’s /lgbt/ imageboard	0
“This isn’t a place like Iraq or Afghanistan”: coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Middle Eastern other	0
Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, political, and cultural resonances	0
Migration journalists and social media: “walking the line” in a love/hate paradox	0
Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation	0
Assessing inequalities in storytelling & narrative media: conceptualizing a Freirean methodology	0
Topping the genre: pro-porn feminist implications of trans-topping in gay pornography	0
Data grab: the new colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back	0
Trafficking data	0
Diversity is not a win-condition	0
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy	0
Beyond loyalty to family and state: building pan-Chinese filial nationalism in Mulan (2020)	0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–2021	0
“What do you want?!”: Black messianic masculinity in Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball	0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age	0
More than a glitch: confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech	0
#Jockstrapfetish? Objectification, sexualization, and Bike Athletic as a gay brand	0
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire	0
Review of Social Media and Hate	0
Searching for solidarity: Revolutionary dreams and radical social movements	0
Towards intersectional and transcultural analysis in the examination of players and game fandoms	0
Cultural Studies, what is it (and is not): once more with feeling	0
Advertising disability	0
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans	0
Flyover fictions: polarization in U.S.-American culture, media, and politics	0
Priming “American carnage:” reality television and Donald J. Trump	0
Between parochialism and planetary in Cultural studies: an interview with Lawrence Grossberg	0
The end of reality: how four billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto	0
Digital racial: algorithmic violence and digital platforms	0
Comics in Poland: transculturation, debates, and adaptations	0
Ignoring the blood on the tracks: exits and departures from game studies	0
Truck simulator, trucker-simulators, and the containment of neoliberal capitalism	0
“Break something!”: Abjection and the mutability of white masculinity in the Woodstock ‘99 documentaries	0
Superman, superwoman, or superhero? A thematic analysis of Reddit user discussions of female superheroes	0
Designed to be held: gynoid bodies, storage politics, and the gendered aesthetics of containment	0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter	0
Spinning into control: the spin/propaganda thesis challenged	0
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement	0
“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 pandemic	0
Engaging with culture and modernity: Cultural studies in India	0
Trump and the truthers: populist demophobia and the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory	0