Critical Studies in Media Communication

Article	Citations
Politics and porn: how news media characterizes problems presented by deepfakes	37
Gender and the two-tiered system of collegiate esports	37
Diversity is not a win-condition	23
The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development	18
Defending the state from digital Deceit: the reflexive securitization of deepfake	13
Representations of gender and race in Ryan Coogler’s filmBlack Panther: disrupting Hollywood tropes	11
Democracy, the public sphere, and power elites: examining the Ghanaian private media’s role in political corruption	10
Excessively Asian: crying, Crazy Rich Asians, and the construction of Asian American audiences	9
All hail DNA: the constitutive rhetoric of AncestryDNA™ advertising	9
Battle of the classes: news consumption inequalities and symbolic boundary work	8
Whipping it out: guns, campaign advertising, and the White masculine spectacle	8
“Mr. Mom” no more: single-father representations on television in primetime drama and comedies	7
Decolonizing play	7
The visual clichés of legal cannabis promotion on social media	6
Opening the gates: defining a model of intersectional journalism	6
Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change	6
Sports gamers practices as a form of subversiveness – the example of the FIFA ultimate team	6
Un/recognisable and dis/empowering images of disability: a collective textual analysis of media representations of intellectual disabilities	5
Anti-social social gaming: community conflict in a Facebook game	4
“The future of media studies is game studies”	4
Workers’ visibility and union organizing in the UK videogames industry	4
Wangari Maathai’s environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi	3
Circulate yourself: targeted individuals, the yieldable object & self-publication on digital platforms	3
The straight labor of playing gay	3
The labor of consent: affect, agency and whiteness in the age of #metoo	3

When media events fail: the transformation of the Israeli peace discourse at the funeral of Shimon Peres	2
Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King	2
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model	2
Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity	2
Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory	2
Homoheroic or homophobic? Leo Varadkar, LGBTQ politics and contemporary news narratives	2
Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene	2
“The world wants us dead”:stigma and the social construction of health in Pose	2
Too close, too intimate, and too vulnerable: close reading methodology and the future of feminist game studies	2
Reframing the post-apocalypse in Black British film: the dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank	2
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports	2
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube	2
Atlas of AI	2
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory	2
“I am sorry if I have ever given you guys any crap”: the communicative practices within Telltale Games’ online forums	2
Math and magic: Nnedi Okorafor’sBintitrilogy and its challenge to the dominance of Western science in science fiction	1
Hybrid styles, interstitial spaces, and the digital advocacy of the Salafi feminist	1
“I’ll see you again in 25 years”: doppelganging nostalgia & Twin Peaks: The Return	1
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below	1
Performativity, mediarchy, and politics: the sitcom’s anonymized critique	1
Memes, condensation symbols, and the changing landscape of political rhetoric	1
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad	1
Ignoring the blood on the tracks: exits and departures from game studies	1
Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: children, peace communication and socialization	1
The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes	1
I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet	1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)	1
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television	1
A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive’s performance art	1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	1
Infrastructures of flow: streaming media as elemental media	1
What comes after entanglement?	1
Towards intersectional and transcultural analysis in the examination of players and game fandoms	1
Constructing police as first responders: a critical rhetorical archetype analysis	1
White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’sUnorthodox	1
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown	1
Another world is possible: building games for just futures	1
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability	1
Crims and crooks: automatization, communicative capitalism, fandom, and promotion for Wentworth	1
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording	1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images	1
Rewriting activism: the NFL takes a knee	1
Does it pay to get personal? Examining the prioritization of “telling your story” in film school pedagogy and its implications for minoritized film industry aspirants	1
“Afrotopia?”: an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016)	0
Gasping for war drama: the “about to die moment” of the Osama bin Laden assassination	0
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy	0
The Twitter presidency: Donald J. Trump and the politics of white rage	0
Twenty-four hours in the alt-right media ecosystem: analyzing race, space, and labor inBreitbart’scoverage of the Mollie Tibbetts murder	0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence	0

The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy , by Josef Nguyen	0
Crisis reporters, emotions and technology: an ethnography	0
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice , by Marianne LeGreco and Niesha Douglas, Berkele	0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures	0
Manifest destiny 2.0: genre trouble in game worlds	0
Correction	0
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes	0
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away	0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream	0
Why Wakanda matters: what Black Panther reveals about psychology, identity, and communication	0
Unearthing neoliberal multiculturalism in news discourse: politics of indigeneity & ethnic identity in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast	0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity	0
SoundCloud Rap: An investigation of community and consumption models of internet practices	0
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note	0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization through Shingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime	0
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film	0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction	0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	0
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life , by Andre Cavalcante	0
“Millennials as working class”: El Rey Network and the politics of race, class, and gender	0
Behind the screen: content moderation in the shadows of social media	0
Intersectional Tech: black users in digital gaming	0
Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation	0
Why does cuteness matter? A review of The Power of Cute	0
Black or Right: anti/racist campus rhetorics	0
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries	0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series	0
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers	0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media	0
Materialist media theory: an introduction	0
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries	0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter	0
Making the past present:Bisbee ‘17and mediated haunting	0
Counted out or taken in: mapping out diversity of journalists in three Indian digital native English newsrooms	0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism	0
Killer apps: war, media, machine	0
Building affective infrastructures: a review of Gestures of Concern	0
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy	0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and oppo	0
Hegel in a wired brain	0
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners	0
Shadow academy of video game production—industrial reflexivity ofMythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet	0
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research	0
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	0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions	0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies	0
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements	0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent , edited by Reynaldo Anderson and John Jenn	0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America	0
Technology is political: review of Sun-ha Hong’s Technologies of Speculation	0
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack	0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts	0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality	0
How Pac-Man eats	0
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere	0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland	0
Ambient Play	0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity	0
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	0
A precarious game: the illusion of dream jobs in the video game industry	0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”	0
Review of Social Media and Hate	0
Beyond Journalism	0
Gaming sexism: gender and identity in the era of casual video games	0
Public goods and private interests: setting the table for the commercial internet in the 1990s	0
Queer failure in Freddy’s Revenge and Scream, Queen! A documentary’s recuperation of Elm Street’s queer mem	0
The digital lives of black women in Britain (Palgrave Studies in (re)presenting gender	0
Lost in translation? theorizing public influence on policymaking via the 2018 net neutrality repeal	0
Language, social media and ideologies: translingual Englishes, Facebook and authenticities	0
The SAGE Handbook of media and migration	0
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire	0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–2021	0
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia	0
Feminist media studies	0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America , by Erika K. Jacks	0
Tricksters, cyborgs, and the musalsal: media movement and infrastructure gaps in Arab television	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
Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media	0
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet	0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum	0

Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton	0
TV (Object Lessons)	0
Considering taste after gamification: collective selection, cultural intermediation, and casual gaming	0
Gaming masculinity: trolls, fake geeks & the gendered battle for online culture	0
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare	0
The Hollywood Jim Crow: the racial politics of the movie industry	0
Going off scripts: emotional labor and technoliberal managerialism	0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin	0
White masculinity in the “New Cold War”: readingRocky IVandWhite Nightsas multidirectional memories	0