Critical Studies in Media Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Studies in Media Communication is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries35
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy23
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, 216
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries16
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region10
Live from the underground: a history of college radio10
Workers’ visibility and union organizing in the UK videogames industry7
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory7
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack6
Making the past present:Bisbee ‘17and mediated haunting5
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas4
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory4
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn4
Atlas of AI3
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet3
Ambient Play3
“The world wants us dead”:stigma and the social construction of health in Pose3
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 3
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation2
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia2
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports2
Manifest destiny 2.0: genre trouble in game worlds2
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency2
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice2
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad2
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model2
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity2
Hegel in a wired brain2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric1
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor1
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)1
Unearthing neoliberal multiculturalism in news discourse: politics of indigeneity & ethnic identity in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast1
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love1
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers1
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa1
Social media critical discourse studies1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show1
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners0
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online0
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below0
“This isn’t a place like Iraq or Afghanistan”: coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Middle Eastern other0
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film0
TikTok cultures in the United States0
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy0
White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’sUnorthodox0
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America0
The Strong Black Women of the film American Fiction: An Exploration Using the Africana Media Representations Quadrants Model0
Memes, condensation symbols, and the changing landscape of political rhetoric0
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans0
Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton0
Counted out or taken in: mapping out diversity of journalists in three Indian digital native English newsrooms0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts0
“America was terrified … of an orange”: using film to subvert hegemonic narratives on Asian identity0
Black vegan rhetoric: race, healing, and conflict in Black women’s blog posts0
Going off scripts: emotional labor and technoliberal managerialism0
Why Wakanda matters: what Black Panther reveals about psychology, identity, and communication0
Priming “American carnage:” reality television and Donald J. Trump0
A century of repression: the espionage act and freedom of the press,0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism0
Correction0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies0
Considering taste after gamification: collective selection, cultural intermediation, and casual gaming0
White masculinity in the “New Cold War”: readingRocky IVandWhite Nightsas multidirectional memories0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity0
Distancing representations in transgender film: Identification, affect, and the audience0
“Get Woke, Go Broke”: sport media’s monetization of white male grievance in the age of Trump0
Review of Social Media and Hate0
A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media0
Black girl joy in the media: an intergenerational perspective0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–20210
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland0
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare0
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television0
Intersectional Tech: black users in digital gaming0
Constructing police as first responders: a critical rhetorical archetype analysis0
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability0
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions0
Assessing inequalities in storytelling & narrative media: conceptualizing a Freirean methodology0
I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet0
Engaging with culture and modernity: Cultural studies in India0
Infrastructures of flow: streaming media as elemental media0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction0
“The future of media studies is game studies”0
Between parochialism and planetary in Cultural studies: an interview with Lawrence Grossberg0
Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization throughShingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America0
Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream0
Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene0
Digital labor in free-to-play games: player as commodity and interaction as labor in MMOGs0
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away0
The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging0
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire0
Ignoring the blood on the tracks: exits and departures from game studies0
TV (Object Lessons)0
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube0
Decolonizing play0
Performativity, mediarchy, and politics: the sitcom’s anonymized critique0
Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: children, peace communication and socialization0
Cultural Studies, what is it (and is not): once more with feeling0
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt0
The digital lives of black women in Britain (Palgrave Studies in (re)presenting gender0
Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King0
“Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series0
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures 0
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb0
When media events fail: the transformation of the Israeli peace discourse at the funeral of Shimon Peres0
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere0
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life0
Too close, too intimate, and too vulnerable: close reading methodology and the future of feminist game studies0
“Presented as originally created”: how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future0
Badvertising: an exposé0
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity0
SoundCloud Rap: An investigation of community and consumption models of internet practices0
The role of news coverage in constructing the putative voter: a critical discourse analysis of local news coverage of same-sex marriage0
“Break something!”: Abjection and the mutability of white masculinity in the Woodstock ‘99 documentaries0
Vlogging truth to power: a study of the postcolonial rhetoric of disenfranchised Ghanaian migrants’ political vlogs0
“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 pandemic0
Double negative: the Black image and popular culture0
Towards intersectional and transcultural analysis in the examination of players and game fandoms0
Glitching the simulated carnival: “Girls like us” in MTV's Ex on the Beach0
The visual clichés of legal cannabis promotion on social media0
Spinning into control: the spin/propaganda thesis challenged0
Analyzing gamification as capital in social media posts regarding military recruitment0
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording0
Un/recognisable and dis/empowering images of disability: a collective textual analysis of media representations of intellectual disabilities0
Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality0
Black girlhood media studies: bridging multidisciplinary approaches from old to new media0
“The revolution will be hilarious: comedy for social change and civic power”0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence0
Superman, superwoman, or superhero? A thematic analysis of Reddit user discussions of female superheroes0
The next [white] thing: neocolonial white feminism in Disney’s Frozen II0
Trafficking data0
The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development0
Public goods and private interests: setting the table for the commercial internet in the 1990s0
Diversity is not a win-condition0
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy0
More than a glitch: confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech0
Mediated misogynoir: erasing Black women’s and girls’ innocence in the public imagination0
Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change0
Black or Right: anti/racist campus rhetorics0
Correction0
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”0
Oprah and Ozempic: a commentary on Oprah Winfrey’s “shame, blame and the weight loss revolution”0
Opening the gates: defining a model of intersectional journalism0
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