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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries44
Indigenous Hitmakerz in the Arctic: negotiating local needs with global ambitions within commercial music industries23
Review of influential machines: The rhetoric of computational performance19
Latin American, Caribbean, and Colombian Cultural Studies trajectories: Cartographies of the relation between culture and power in the region19
Black monstrosity and the rhetoric of whiteness in Disney’s Zombies trilogy12
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, 28
Live from the underground: a history of college radio8
Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory6
India’s internet shutdowns as biopolitics: The formation of political will and opinion through collective action under attack6
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon5
Imperiled whiteness: how hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America5
Black hair technologies at the “post-natural” turn5
Neo-patriarchal representations of “Pink” divorce in contemporary Egyptian TV dramas5
Ambient Play4
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
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
Everybody eats: communication and the paths to food justice3
The Johnny Carson monologues 1984–1992 consensus narrative and the Lingua Franca of celebrity3
“What makes you think I’m African American?”: identity performance, code switching and the Strong Black Woman on Love Is Blind3
On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia3
Digital masquerade: Feminist rights and queer media in China3
The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency3
Legal spectatorship: slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence3
Leaks and lawfare: adding a Legal Filter to Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model3
Algorithmic worldmaking: The rhetorical craft of networked order2
Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas2
Dialectics of cinematic co-production: ambivalent Korean fantasy romance in Ultimate Oppa2
African girl, African woman: how agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the continent … for good2
A sense of urgency: how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric2
Another world is possible: building games for just futures2
Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press2
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports2
“De eso no se habla”: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor2
How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin2
Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad2
Media and the affective life of slavery2
Blaming Blackness: Travis Scott, the Astroworld concert tragedy, and news media’s racialized search for responsibility2
The digital double bind: change and stasis in the Middle East2
Social media critical discourse studies2
Jotería communication studies: narrating theories of resistance (critical intercultural communication studies)1
Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research1
Race, romance, and Hollywood: Black women filmmakers and the cultural production of Black love1
Toward an historical organic ideology: Thatcherism, Trumpism, and Stuart Hall’s engagement with organic ideology1
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship1
Rhetoric, religion, and tragic violence: sacred succor and rancor1
Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)1
COOL IT! The objective racism of carceral technofixes1
Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com1
Gays Against Groomers and the politics of digital ventriloquism1
Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict1
Academic freedom as academic necessity: an editors’ note1
“This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online1
Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images1
After the ‘longest war’: visual themes of Afghan evacuees in U.S. newspapers1
“It’s hard to be something you can’t see!”: representing Black transgender women on “The Breakfast Club” morning show1
Promoting extreme fitness regimes through the communicative affordances of reality makeover television: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
Struggling for ordinary: media and transgender belonging in everyday life1
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb1
Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare1
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