Critical Studies in Media Communication

Article	Citations
The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development	27
Diversity is not a win-condition	23
Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change	11
Representations of gender and race in Ryan Coogler’s filmBlack Panther: disrupting Hollywood tropes	11
Decolonizing play	10
Excessively Asian: crying, Crazy Rich Asians, and the construction of Asian American audiences	9
The visual clichés of legal cannabis promotion on social media	7
Opening the gates: defining a model of intersectional journalism	7
“The future of media studies is game studies”	6
Workers’ visibility and union organizing in the UK videogames industry	6
Sports gamers practices as a form of subversiveness – the example of the FIFA ultimate team	6
Un/recognisable and dis/empowering images of disability: a collective textual analysis of media representations of intellectual disabilities	5
Anti-social social gaming: community conflict in a Facebook game	5
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports	4
Homoheroic or homophobic? Leo Varadkar, LGBTQ politics and contemporary news narratives	4
Too close, too intimate, and too vulnerable: close reading methodology and the future of feminist game studies	4
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube	3
The straight labor of playing gay	3
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television	3
White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’sUnorthodox	3
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below	2
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	2
Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King	2
Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene	2
Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity	2

“I am sorry if I have ever given you guys any crap”: the communicative practices within Telltale Games’ online forums	2
When media events fail: the transformation of the Israeli peace discourse at the funeral of Shimon Peres	2
Memes, condensation symbols, and the changing landscape of political rhetoric	2
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad	2
“The world wants us dead”:stigma and the social construction of health in Pose	2
I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet	2
Counted out or taken in: mapping out diversity of journalists in three Indian digital native English newsrooms	2
Infrastructures of flow: streaming media as elemental media	2
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model	2
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording	2
Atlas of AI	2
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory	2
Going off scripts: emotional labor and technoliberal managerialism	1
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown	1
Performativity, mediarchy, and politics: the sitcom’s anonymized critique	1
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire	1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images	1
Rewriting activism: the NFL takes a knee	1
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory	1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film	1
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere	1
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability	1
Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton	1
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy	1
Ignoring the blood on the tracks: exits and departures from game studies	1
Towards intersectional and transcultural analysis in the examination of players and game fandoms	1
Does it pay to get personal? Examining the prioritization of “telling your story” in film school pedagogy and its implications for minoritized film industry aspirants	1
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements	1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)	1
Another world is possible: building games for just futures	1
Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation	1
Crims and crooks: automatization, communicative capitalism, fandom, and promotion for Wentworth	1
Shadow academy of video game production—industrial reflexivity ofMythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet	1
What comes after entanglement?	1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes	1
Constructing police as first responders: a critical rhetorical archetype analysis	1
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”	0
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia	0
Double negative: the Black image and popular culture	0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”	0
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life	0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality	0
Twenty-four hours in the alt-right media ecosystem: analyzing race, space, and labor inBreitbart’scoverage of the Mollie Tibbetts murder	0
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners	0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland	0
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	0
Gaming sexism: gender and identity in the era of casual video games	0
Tricksters, cyborgs, and themusalsal: media movement and infrastructure gaps in Arab television	0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction	0

The digital lives of black women in Britain (Palgrave Studies in (re)presenting gender	0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions	0
Digital labor in free-to-play games: player as commodity and interaction as labor in MMOGs	0
“Millennials as working class”: El Rey Network and the politics of race, class, and gender	0
Review of Social Media and Hate	0
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic	0
The Twitter presidency: Donald J. Trump and the politics of white rage	0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization throughShingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime	0
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good	0
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence	0
Correction	0
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack	0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence	0
Ambient Play	0
TikTok cultures in the United States	0
Considering taste after gamification: collective selection, cultural intermediation, and casual gaming	0
Superman, superwoman, or superhero? A thematic analysis of Reddit user discussions of female superheroes	0
Black or Right: anti/racist campus rhetorics	0
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers	0
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice	0
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa	0
The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging	0
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away	0
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy	0
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com	0
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note	0
Why Wakanda matters: what Black Panther reveals about psychology, identity, and communication	0
Black girl joy in the media: an intergenerational perspective	0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–2021	0
White masculinity in the “New Cold War”: readingRocky IVandWhite Nightsas multidirectional memories	0
Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: children, peace communication and socialization	0
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries	0
Making the past present:Bisbee ‘17and mediated haunting	0
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare	0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies	0
Crisis reporters, emotions and technology: an ethnography	0
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research	0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America	0
Manifest destiny 2.0: genre trouble in game worlds	0
Unearthing neoliberal multiculturalism in news discourse: politics of indigeneity & ethnic identity in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast	0
Media and the affective life of slavery	0
“We have a lot weighing on us:” a Black Feminist analysis of U.S. newspaper quotes of Black women in year 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt	0
Materialist media theory: an introduction	0
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love	0
More than a glitch: confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech	0
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind	0
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show	0
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)	0
The next [white] thing: neocolonial white feminism in Disney’s Frozen II	0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum	0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age	0
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity	0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	0
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism	0
Gasping for war drama: the “about to die moment” of the Osama bin Laden assassination	0
Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States	0
Correction	0
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries	0
Black vegan rhetoric: race, healing, and conflict in Black women’s blog posts	0
Mediated misogynoir: erasing Black women’s and girls’ innocence in the public imagination	0
Hegel in a wired brain	0
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian cultural studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region	0
Vlogging truth to power: a study of the postcolonial rhetoric of disenfranchised Ghanaian migrants’ political vlogs	0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts	0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America	0
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor	0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream	0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series	0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity	0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin	0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures	0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent	0
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet	0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media	0
SoundCloud Rap: An investigation of community and consumption models of internet practices	0
TV (Object Lessons)	0
Building affective infrastructures: a review of Gestures of Concern	0
Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance	0
A precarious game: the illusion of dream jobs in the video game industry	0

Priming “American carnage:” reality television and Donald J. Trump	0
“Get Woke, Go Broke”: sport media’s monetization of white male grievance in the age of Trump	0
Beyond Journalism	0
Black girlhood media studies: bridging multidisciplinary approaches from old to new media	0
“Presented as originally created”: how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future	0
Oprah and Ozempic: a commentary on Oprah Winfrey’s “shame, blame and the weight loss revolution”	0
The Hollywood Jim Crow: the racial politics of the movie industry	0
“This isn’t a place like Iraq or Afghanistan”: coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Middle Eastern other	0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter	0
Technology is political: review of Sun-ha Hong’s Technologies of Speculation	0
The role of news coverage in constructing the putative voter: a critical discourse analysis of local news coverage of same-sex marriage	0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity	0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy	0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism	0
Intersectional Tech: black users in digital gaming	0
The Strong Black Women of the film American Fiction: An Exploration Using the Africana Media Representations Quadrants Model	0
Public goods and private interests: setting the table for the commercial internet in the 1990s	0
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, 2	0
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn	0