A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Morgan Bimm writes on the indie sleaze revival movement and the contemporary camp effect.
Read moreOn the one-year anniversary of the Facebook Papers, Alexander Cho makes a case for why critical and cultural studies scholars ought to be considering the design and affect of social media.
Read moreThis article addresses campus mediations of safety and emergency services in the era of the mobile application. Through fieldwork and drawing on contemporary data, this article looks at how surveillance and privacy are mediated through “surveillance safety” and other such narratives.
Read moreJess King reflects on the intersectional barriers to agency depicted in Netflix’s Maid (2021), a series about a young lower-class mother struggling to create stability for herself and her daughter.
Read moreZizi Li explores what influencer Imma’s virtual images convey about digital and physical realities.
Read moreEmily West details the shift towards the consumption of media-as-a-service and its implications for audience subjectivity in the streaming era.
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