Critical Studies in Media Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Studies in Media Communication is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy40
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries23
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region19
Live from the underground: a history of college radio17
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries11
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, 211
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack10
Workers’ visibility and union organizing in the UK videogames industry7
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon6
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory6
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn5
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas5
Propaganda à la Russe: historical continuance and modern adaptation4
Queer failure inFreddy’s RevengeandScream, Queen!A documentary’s recuperation ofElm Street’squeer memory4
Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet4
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency4
Ambient Play4
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice3
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity3
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
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad3
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind3
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model3
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia3
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence3
“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
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
Social media critical discourse studies2
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)2
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric2
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East2
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good2
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa2
Blaming Blackness: Travis Scott, the Astroworld concert tragedy, and news media’s racialized search for responsibility2
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin2
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online1
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love1
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note1
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show1
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism1
Editors’ note for “lifting as we climb: elevating mediated epistemologies by and about black women”1
“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability1
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com1
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
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