Critical Studies in Media Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Studies in Media Communication is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries46
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries24
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region22
Review of influential machines: The rhetoric of computational performance20
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
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack6
On Black Media Philosophy6
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory5
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon5
Imperiled whiteness: how hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America5
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn4
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory4
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas4
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet4
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation3
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia3
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model3
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency3
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind3
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice3
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
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence3
Blaming Blackness: Travis Scott, the Astroworld concert tragedy, and news media’s racialized search for responsibility2
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric2
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East2
Digital masquerade: Feminist rights and queer media in China2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures2
Critical security studies in the digital age social media and security2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)1
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love1
Nigerian media industries in the era of globalization1
Toward an historical organic ideology: Thatcherism, Trumpism, and Stuart Hall’s engagement with organic ideology1
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
A Review of Sonic sovereignty: hip hop, indigeneity, and shifting popular music mainstreams1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show1
The “perfect” filtered look? A multimodal critical discourse analysis of TikTok #beautyfilters1
Rhetoric, religion, and tragic violence: sacred succor and rancor1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb1
Mentorship and the role of the Book Reviews Editor in the future of scholarly publishing1
Formatting resistance: the storage politics of game mods1
Women comedians in the digital age: Media work and critical reputations after Trump1
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin1
Social media critical discourse studies1
From the bathroom of platform governance: Twitch, container tech & hot tub media1
Radiophonic feminisms: Latina voices in the digital age of broadcasting1
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note1
Rogue , procedural generation, and computers as containers1
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism1
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
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