Media studies Archive
Advertising in the Age of Agentic AI: Call for Research (editorial)
Jooyoung Kim (2025). “Advertising in the Age of Agentic AI: Call for Research (editorial),” Journal of Interactive Advertising, 25(3), 215–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/15252019.2025.2557107 Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the advertising process […]
Don’t scroll … we’re lifting you up in prayer
Sydney E. Brammer, Joshua Cloudy & Chaitra Kulkarni, “Don’t scroll … we’re lifting you up in prayer”: #NunTok as a case study in the diffusion of TikTok as an innovation, imagined […]
Big Butt Ideology’: Digital gaze and evolving normative beauty constructs for Black women
Quindelda “Q.” McElroy (Ph.D. student) (Accepted). “‘Big Butt Ideology’: Digital gaze and evolving normative beauty constructs for Black women.” Howard Journal of Communications. DOI: 10.1080/10646175.2025.2567330 Abstract: By applying methods of ideological […]
Through Her Eyes: Exploring the Female Gaze in Media Studies
Sahar Saadat (Ph.D. student). “Through Her Eyes: Exploring the Female Gaze in Media Studies.” Accepted by the Commission on the Status of Women, and presented at the Graduate Student Showcase session at the […]
“Top Poster Award – 1st Place” in the Critical and Cultural Studies Division at the 2025 AEJMC Conference
Quindelda McElroy (Ph.D. Student) won “Top Poster Award – 1st Place” in the Critical and Cultural Studies Division at the 2025 AEJMC Conference in August for her paper titled, “Bluey is […]
So You Think You Can Parent: Dual-Screen Responses to Single Fathers Tropes in Single Parents
Bernabo, Laurena, and Jennifer Turchi. “So You Think You Can Parent: Dual-Screen Responses to Single Fathers Tropes in Single Parents.” Men & Masculinities. Abstract: As the U.S. single-father population expands, we explore how […]
Vintage Furniture: The Significance of the Casting Couch as Industry Gossip and Rumour
Fortmueller, K. (forthcoming 2022.) “Vintage Furniture: The Significance of the Casting Couch as Industry Gossip and Rumour,” NECSUS European Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Abstract: In this article, I argue […]
“(De/Re)Constructing LGBT Characters in Latin America: The Implications of Mexican Dubbing for Translating Marginalized Identities.”
Abstract: This article responds to calls for more detailed analyses of localization around the world (E. Castelló, 2009; E. Levine, 2009; S. Waisbord & S. Jalfin, 2009) by examining a Mexican dubbing […]
Bilchiinsi Philosophy: Decolonizing Methodologies in Media Studies
Abstract: Despite recent calls for decolonization in academia as a whole and the fields of communication studies and media studies in particular—with a focus on narratives such as #CommunicationSoWhite and […]
One labor network?: Frameworks for Understanding Media Unions and Organizing Across Borders
Panel Overview: In October 2021, with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) on the brink of a strike, film and television unions around the world began to issue […]