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Capturing COVID
Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era
University of Massachusetts Press
- Copyright year: 2025
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
By Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
Rutgers University Press
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events.
- Copyright year: 2025
Memory Work
White Ignorance and Black Resistance in Popular Magazines, 1900-1910
University Press of Mississippi
How post-Reconstruction periodicals used opposing rhetorical strategies to shape public memory
- Copyright year: 2024
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Rutgers University Press
Using a media studies lens of television, film, music, and digital culture, Finding God in All the Black Places argues that Black spirituality and church religiosity bolster audiences' understanding of and cultural competence with Black popular culture.
Boston Mass-Mediated
Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age
University of Massachusetts Press
- Copyright year: 2024
Under the White Gaze
Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism
UBC Press, Purich Books
Blending research with a reporter’s journey through the industry, Under the White Gaze takes a pointed look at how people of colour are routinely missing, marginalized, or misrepresented in Canadian journalism, and explores what can be done to make our media more inclusive.
- Copyright year: 2024
Performing the News
Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
By Elia Powers
Rutgers University Press
Performing The News: Identity, Authority, & the Myth of Neutrality explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences
- Copyright year: 2024
Superheroes in the Streets
Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age
University Press of Mississippi
How Muslim women activists have heroically raised physical and digital protest banners
- Copyright year: 2024
Indonesia’s COVID-19 Infodemic
A Battle for Truth or Trust?
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
- Copyright year: 2023
Staging a Comeback
Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on original archival research and interviews, Peter C. Kunze offers a revisionist account of the Disney Renaissance that foregrounds the role of theatrically-trained talent in revitalizing Disney Animation. In so doing, he situates this impressive turnaround at the intersection of two dynamic entertainment industries with a long, underexamined relationships, Hollywood and Broadway.
- Copyright year: 2023
Mainstreaming Gays
Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television
By Eve Ng
Rutgers University Press
Mainstreaming Gays examines a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, when queer production and interaction was transformed by the emergence of digital media, the rising influence of fan cultures, and increasing interest in LGBTQ content. It is critical reading for those interested in media production, fandom, subcultures, and LGBTQ digital media.
- Copyright year: 2023
Consuming Digital Disinformation
How Filipinos Engage with Racist and Historically Distorted Online Political Content
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
- Copyright year: 2023
Alice in Japanese Wonderlands
Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
By Amanda Kennell; Series edited by Allison Alexy
University of Hawaii Press
- Copyright year: 2023
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
Rutgers University Press
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Synchronized Society
Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet
Rutgers University Press
The Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate in the twenty-first century, with particular attention to the rise and fall of the schedule and the “water cooler” conversations that accompanied it.
- Copyright year: 2023
Authenticating Whiteness
Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
University Press of Mississippi
A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media
Lost Storytellers
The Information Apocalypse in the Modern Newsroom
University Press of Florida
Uncanny Histories in Film and Media
Edited by Patrice Petro
Rutgers University Press
Uncanny Histories in Film and Media probes the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors challenge our inherited narratives to reveal a disturbance of what was once familiar in the histories of our field.
- Copyright year: 2022
Branding Black Womanhood
Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic
Rutgers University Press
Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines how corporate brands and media companies appropriated Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise. Beginning with the emergence of Essence magazine and continuing into the 2010s, Timeka N. Tounsel considers the affordances and limitations of media visibility and corporate attention.
- Copyright year: 2022
Stories That Bind
Political Economy and Culture in New India
Rutgers University Press
The book studies stories about India told through film, advertising, journalism, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture.
- Copyright year: 2022
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