January 25, 2019
—David Craig and Stuart Cunningham
From Netflix’s Black Mirror to Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, social media representation in our media abounds. See what two media and communications scholars think of being “woke” in the wake of this techlash.
November 9, 2018
—Henry Jenkins
Discover why young activists use digital and mobile technologies as core platforms, but also how they tap any and every communication resource they can get their hands on to effect change.
October 12, 2018
—Ralina L. Joseph
A black woman icon such as Serena Williams has to bear the disproportionate burden of not only being the target of racist attacks, but also of being above responding to them, maintaining a pose of “strategic ambiguity.”
August 20, 2018
—Lori Kido Lopez
Effective Asian American media activism requires analyses of media industries and audiences as well as readings of a film’s specific meaning and how fictional representations connect to larger structures of racism.
July 11, 2018
—Nancy K. Baym
A soundtrack to Playing to the Crowd, an inside look at what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online.
May 25, 2018
—Ethan Tussey
Media companies are increasingly investing in the development of a “procrastination economy,” which is centered on the development of products designed for those moments when we pull out our phones or surf the web for a few minutes of distraction.
December 19, 2017
Some of the worst mass shooting in US history recently took place, capping off a year with many other mass shootings. With each mass shooting, our news media respond by urgently updating us on the latest tragedy, breathlessly reporting the death toll. But did you see any of the bodies in Las Vegas, Texas, or elsewhere?
May 15, 2017
—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.