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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of influential machines: The rhetoric of computational performance7
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region7
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, 26
On Black Media Philosophy6
“This is my spot. It’s all mine.”: The queer anatopism of place in Call Me by Your Name5
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy4
Imperiled whiteness: how hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America4
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries4
Live from the underground: a history of college radio4
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon3
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas3
The growing non-commercial basis of U.S. journalism employment: evidence from one city, 2015–20253
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
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet3
The rhetoric of white slavery and the making of national identity3
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory3
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation3
#OscarsSoWhite in The Hollywood Reporter : a case study of strategic whiteness in trade discourse3
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack3
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn3
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency3
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind3
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor2
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence2
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity2
Critical security studies in the digital age: social media and security2
Ecological feelings: a rhetorical compendium2
Formatting resistance: the storage politics of game mods2
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice2
Unearthing the constraints in media and communication research in Africa: a path to building resilience towards the decolonization agenda2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model2
Digital masquerade: Feminist rights and queer media in China2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa1
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
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note1
Rhetoric, religion, and tragic violence: sacred succor and rancor1
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism1
Radiophonic feminisms: Latina voices in the digital age of broadcasting1
Women comedians in the digital age: media work and critical reputations after Trump1
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin1
Social media critical discourse studies1
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
Toward an historical organic ideology: Thatcherism, Trumpism, and Stuart Hall’s engagement with organic ideology1
Nigerian media industries in the era of globalization1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
From the bathroom of platform governance: Twitch, container tech & hot tub media1
A Review of Sonic sovereignty: hip hop, Indigeneity, and shifting popular music mainstreams1
Blaming Blackness: Travis Scott, the Astroworld concert tragedy, and news media’s racialized search for responsibility1
Spanish-language television: cultural and industrial transformations1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
Rogue , procedural generation, and computers as containers1
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online1
Mentorship and the role of the Book Reviews Editor in the future of scholarly publishing1
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers1
“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”: Kamala Harris, controlling images, and political memes1
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good1
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender inThe Iron LadyandThe Crown0
Craig Of the Creek:Black childhood and environmental racism0
Negative media: erasure and the limits of retention0
Refusing sexual advances: the management of (un)willingness in verbal and nonverbal rejections0
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans0
Badvertising: an exposé0
Black vegan rhetoric: race, healing, and conflict in Black women’s blog posts0
Advertising disability0
Migration journalists and social media: “walking the line” in a love/hate paradox0
Minorities, free speech and the internet0
From postmodernism to metamodernism: Asian American identities and representations in everything everywhere all at once0
Swedish Cold War history on YouTube – committed amateurs and heritagization from below0
Containing visions of justice: on the assimilation, alienization, and disappearance of Black Lives Matter in Scandal ’s “The Lawn Chair”0
The next [white] thing: neocolonial white feminism in Disney’s Frozen II0
Mapping the stars: celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity0
The “perfect” filtered look? A multimodal critical discourse analysis of TikTok #beautyfilters0
“I’m speaking:” VP Kamala Harris’ social media campaign in the 2020 election0
Containing feminism at games industry parties0
Framing women’s indignation: news coverage on women’s mobilization in Mexico, 2019–20210
Correction0
The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies0
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability0
Navigating the global-local nexus in Indigenous African language television0
Digital games after climate change0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy0
Design communication: design of objects in life and public diplomacy0
The well-read game: on playing thoughtfully0
The end of reality: how four billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto0
Glitching the simulated carnival: “Girls like us” in MTV's Ex on the Beach0
Review of LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland0
Playing in postmortem: link rot, memory decay, and haunting archives at the end of the world0
Truth be told: white nostalgia and antiracist queer resistance in “post-truth” America0
Race and environmental justice in the era of climate change and COVID-190
Still never at the top: representation of Asian and Black characters in Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy0
Digital labor in free-to-play games: player as commodity and interaction as labor in MMOGs0
Topping the genre: pro-porn feminist implications of trans-topping in gay pornography0
Designed to be held: gynoid bodies, storage politics, and the gendered aesthetics of containment0
Pandemic death discourse: denial, disparity and the promise of communication0
From a whisper to a movement: investigating the shared rhetorical spaces of whistleblowing and social protest0
Assessing inequalities in storytelling & narrative media: conceptualizing a Freirean methodology0
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt0
Unity and the Story of “9/12”: sport, public memory, and the rhetorical reinvention of 9/110
A century of repression: the espionage act and freedom of the press,0
The secrets of silence: the everyday policing of Black women and their stories about violence0
Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube0
“You can actually feel the machines processing”: podcasting and the infrastructural politics of Google data centers0
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic0
Unravelling disability in the reality show Down the Road0
News in their pockets: a cross-city comparative study of mobile news consumption in Asia0
Comics in Poland: transculturation, debates, and adaptations0
Neo-Ottoman cool west: the drama of Turkish drama in the Bulgarian public sphere0
Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements0
Securing the prize: presidential metaphor and U.S. intervention in the Persian gulf0
Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization throughShingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime0
Truck simulator, trucker-simulators, and the containment of neoliberal capitalism0
Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity0
Cultural Studies, what is it (and is not): once more with feeling0
The gentrification of the internet: how to reclaim our digital freedom0
Petrochemical fantasies: the art and energy of American comics0
Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance0
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement0
It gets better when you fall in Love on the Spectrum0
Dismantling cultural borders through social media and digital communications: how networked communities compromise identity0
Engaging with culture and modernity: Cultural studies in India0
Horror framing and the general election: ghosts and ghouls in twenty-first-century presidential campaign advertisements0
Intergenerational Mujerista Latinidad: a comparative media analysis of One Day at a Time and Jane the Virgin0
Not my type: automating sexual racism in online dating0
Be super, be white: perceptions of representation and inclusion in superhero films from a Mexican audience0
Contemporary Disney animation: genre, gender and Hollywood0
Dictating reality: The global battle to control the news0
Double negative: the Black image and popular culture0
American medium: a new film philosophy0
Survival of the Thickest as discursive resistance: rewriting the fat narrative in media0
Contested airwaves: American radio at home and abroad, 1914–19460
Performing #MeToo: How not to look away0
Forms as the Fordization of communication0
The police killing of Amir Locke: a critical discourse analysis of the press conference held by Minneapolis’s mayor, the interim police chief, and the response by activists0
In the Spirit of ʔAtatíc̓eʔ : telling decolonial allotment stories amid pending litigation0
A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television0
The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures The politics of Digital India: between local compulsions and transnational pressures 0
Digital labor turn: the impact of assetization in digital games0
Scandinavians in Chicago: the origins of white privilege in modern America0
“Each character you create requires a full 15 blocks!” preserving video game memory cards in the age of cloud storage0
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life0
The lost chance in China and the rise of cold war populism0
What does anon want of me? De-idealizing transgender digital media on 4chan’s /lgbt/ imageboard0
The new generation in Chinese animation0
Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality0
Digital Black feminism0
Imagining the thoughtful home: Google Nest and logics of domestic recording0
Cosmic underground: a grimoire of black speculative discontent0
Correction0
Trump and the truthers: populist demophobia and the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory0
Unzipping my library: containing the Game Boy’s history in the Analogue Pocket0
Superman, superwoman, or superhero? A thematic analysis of Reddit user discussions of female superheroes0
Misguided: where misinformation starts, how it spreads, and what to do about it0
“Get Woke, Go Broke”: sport media’s monetization of white male grievance in the age of Trump0
The generic closet: Black gayness and the Black-cast sitcom0
“What do you want?!”: Black messianic masculinity in Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball0
Distancing representations in transgender film: Identification, affect, and the audience0
WhatsApp in the world: disinformation, encryption, and extreme speech0
TikTok cultures in the United States0
“Who is a witch?” Feminist afterlives of the witch: Popular culture, memory, activism0
“Presented as originally created”: how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future0
Black girl joy in the media: an intergenerational perspective0
Migrants and refugees in Southern Europe beyond the news stories: photographs, hate, and journalists’ perceptions0
Review of Social Media and Hate0
Black girlhood media studies: bridging multidisciplinary approaches from old to new media0
Bunker wombs, open worlds, and other post-apocalyptic containers0
The revolution will be hilarious: comedy for social change and civic power0
Digital racial: algorithmic violence and digital platforms0
The erotic as rhetorical power: archives of romantic friendship between women teachers0
The right to believe: constructions of white Christian victimhood in the God’s Not Dead series0
The rhetoric of outrage: Why social media is making us angry0
“Break something!”: Abjection and the mutability of white masculinity in the Woodstock ‘99 documentaries0
Shutting down the Crossfire: lessons on digitality from the short history of Apple AirDrop0
Containing games0
Cashing in on the chaos: the politics of sports betting and the 2020 U.S. presidential election0
Clouding the sun: storing and distributing low-carbon games0
If you love her, (don’t) let her go: generative “holding back” and the de-containment of the Nancy Drew PC games0
Media materialities: form, format, and ephemeral meaning0
Resistance is futile: racism, power, and complicity in Lifetime’s Dance Moms0
“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
Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners0
Black women’s health in the age of hip hop and HIV/AIDS: a narrative remix0
A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone0
The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging0
Life after privacy. Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton0
Analyzing gamification as capital in social media posts regarding military recruitment0
Mediated misogynoir: erasing Black women’s and girls’ innocence in the public imagination0
Fan-Based citizenship in “Mary Poppins Quits”: fannish affect, public affect, and the potential for solidarity0
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict0
Beyond loyalty to family and state: building pan-Chinese filial nationalism in Mulan (2020)0
Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors0
Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States0
And Just Like That  … misogyny reigns supreme: disciplining womanhood in the critical framings of Sex and the City ’s new chapter0
TV (Object Lessons)0
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”0
“AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts0
Between parochialism and planetary in Cultural studies: an interview with Lawrence Grossberg0
The Strong Black Women of the film American Fiction: An Exploration Using the Africana Media Representations Quadrants Model0
Intersectional activism in environmental communication: changemakers respond to ecological crises0
Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, political, and cultural resonances0
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship0
COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and The Sopranos : investigating new interpretive contexts0
Sound tactics: auditory power in political protests0
“Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”0
Infusing patriotism in popular culture: the multimodal construction of patriotic values in a Chinese main melody film0
Digital authoritarianism in the making: repression and resistance on the Russian internet0
“I’m real when I shop my face”: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream0
Trafficking data0
“We can do better. We can be better”: counter-narratives in true crime podcasts on domestic violence0
“I’ll take Cthulhu over you devils any day”: refiguring anti-Black monstrosity in “The Horror at Red Hook” through The Ballad of Black Tom0
“America was terrified … of an orange”: using film to subvert hegemonic narratives on Asian identity0
Imagining China: China’s images in the world of new media0
Patient sense: rhetorical body work in the age of technology0
The role of news coverage in constructing the putative voter: a critical discourse analysis of local news coverage of same-sex marriage0
More than a glitch: confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech0
“This isn’t a place like Iraq or Afghanistan”: coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Middle Eastern other0
Vlogging truth to power: a study of the postcolonial rhetoric of disenfranchised Ghanaian migrants’ political vlogs0
Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America0
#Jockstrapfetish? Objectification, sexualization, and Bike Athletic as a gay brand0
Asian American transnationalism: queer diasporic critique on Netflix’s Bling Empire0
Radical hospitality: American policy, media, and immigration0
Establishing 911: media infrastructures of affective anti-Black, pro-police dispositions0
Oprah and Ozempic: a commentary on Oprah Winfrey’s “shame, blame and the weight loss revolution”0
Flyover fictions: polarization in U.S.-American culture, media, and politics0
Archiving machines: from punch cards to platforms0
Data grab: the new colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back0
Adolescent use of new media and internet technologies: debating risks and opportunities in the digital age0
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, disinformation, and social media0
The art of memes in feminist digital culture0
Spinning into control: the spin/propaganda thesis challenged0
From whence we came and where we are going: the editors’ introduction0
Priming “American carnage:” reality television and Donald J. Trump0
Satellite archaeologies: restoring the Satellaview’s abandoned software ecosystem0
AI for communication0
Searching for solidarity: Revolutionary dreams and radical social movements0
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