Recent publications by division members
The Softening of Chinese Digital Propaganda: Evidence from the People’s Daily Weibo Account During the Pandemic
Zhang, Chang, Zhang, Dechun, & Shao, HsuanLei
Frontier in Psychology (2023)
Threats, truths and strategies: The overlooked relationship between protests, nation branding and public diplomacy
César Jiménez-Martínez, Alina Dolea
Nations and Nationalism (2023)
YOU BETTER WORK! Drag Queen Performativity and Visibility on #dragqueen TikTok
Krysten Stein
Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture (2023)
Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins
Polity (2023)
Examining Communicative Forms in #TikTokDocs’ Sexual Health Videos
Krysten Stein
International Journal of Communication (2022)
Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police
Erika Ningxin Wang and Liang Ge
Asian Studies Review (2022)
The Audacity of Clout (Chasing): Digital Strategies of Black Youth in Chicago DIY Hip-Hop
Jabari Evans and Nancy Baym
International Journal of Communication (2022)
A different girl, but she's nothing new': Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok
Jess Rauchberg
Feminist Media Studies (2022)
What Do TV, Rhetorical Analysis, and Black Men Living on The Down Low All Have in Common? The Oprah Winfrey Show
Krysten Stein
The Popular Culture Studies Journal (2021)
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Jeremy Morris
The University of Michigan Press (2021)
Populist Communication: Ideology, Performance, Mediation
Lone Sorensen
Palgrave (2021)
“You’re not here for the right reasons!” From The Bachelorette to Instagram Influencer
Evie Psarras, Krysten Stein, and Priya Shah
Feminist Media Studies (2021)
Sound Clouds: Listening and Citizenship in Indian Public Culture In Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan
University of Michigan Press (2020)
It’s a mix of authenticity and complete fabrication” Emotional camping: The cross-platform labor of the Real Housewives
Evie Psarras
New Media and Society (2020)
Promiscuous Knowledge Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History
John Durham Peters
The University of Chicago Press (2020)
Disrupting Democracy: Democratization Conflicts as Performative Struggles
Lone Sorensen
Media, War & Conflict (2020)
‘The Sex Ed Class You Wish You’d Had’: The Influencer Doctors Teaching Americans the Basics
Krysten Stein (Quoted)
The Guardian (2023)
Post-national brand utopias: Islamic State and the Good Country as challengers to the nation-state
Nadia Kaneva
Nations and Nationalism (2023)
K-Pop Without Koreans: Racial Imagination and Boundary Making in K-Pop
Ahn, Ji-Hyun
International Journal of Communication (2023)
#JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism
Tom Divon and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
In TikTok cultures in the United States (pp. 47-58)
Routledge (2022)
International Broadcasting During Times of Conflict: A Comparison of China’s and Russia's Communication Strategies
Zhang, Chang, Zhang, Dechun, & Blanchard, Philippe
Journalism Practice (2022)
The 'Little Third': Changing Images of Women Characters Involved in Extramarital Affairs on Chinese TV
Sara Liao and Qi Ling
Communication, Culture, and Critique (2022)
How to Conduct Internet Meme Research
Sulafa Zidani
SAGE Research Method (2022)
How to Conduct Internet Meme Research
Sulafa Zidani
SAGE Research Method (2022)
Consumer Nationalism in Digital Space: A Case Study of the 2017 Anti-Lotte Boycott in China
Sara Liao and Grace Xia
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2022)
“We ‘said her name’ and got zucked”: Black Women Calling-out the Carceral Logics of Digital Platforms
Kishonna Gray and Krysten Stein
Gender & Society (2021)
Mothers and Whores: Female Performers and Comedic Controversies
Amber Day
Studies in American Humor (2022)
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China
David Craig
Palgrave Macmillan (2021)
Tech-tonic Shifts: The U.S. and China models of online screen distribution
David Craig
New York University Press (2021)
Firewalls and Walled Gardens: The Interplatformization of China’s Wanghong Industry
David Craig
Michigan State University Press (2021)
Blackbusting Hollywood: Racialized Media Reception, Failure and The Wiz as Black Blockbuster
Alfred Martin
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (2021)
Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil's 2013 Protests
César Jiménez-Martínez
Palgrave MacMillan (2020)
Pandemic and Its Metaphors: Sontag Revisited in the COVID-19 Era
David Craig
European Journal of Cultural Studies (2020)
Playful activism: Memetic performances of Palestinian resistance in TikTok# Challenges
Laura Cervi, Tom Divon
Social Media+ Society (2023)
Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis: Eco-nationalism and the promotion of green national sovereignty
Melissa Aronczyk
Nations and Nationalism (2023)
Introduction: Nation promotion and the crisis of neoliberal globalisation
César Jiménez-Martínez, Sabina Mihelj, Daniel Sage
Nations and Nationalism (2023)
The promotional regime of visibility: Ambivalence and contradiction in strategies of dominance and resistance
César Jiménez-Martínez and Lee Edwards
Communication and the Public (2022)
Squid Game Outside the Wall: Fandom Nationalism in China and Negotiation with State Power
Erika Ningxin Wang
Communication, Culture, and Critique (2022)
The Glocalization of Films and the Cinema Industry
Bala Musa
The Handbook of Culture and Glocalization (2022)
Meso-Level Leaders as Brokers of Horizontal and Vertical Linkages in Feminist Networked Social Movements.
Yena Lee
Information, Communication & Society (2022)
Dual Ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a Counterpublic
Liang Ge
Media, Culture & Society (2022)
Binge TV: The Rise and Impact of the Viewing Revolution
Emil Steiner
McFarland (2022)
Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
Emily West
The MIT Press (2022)
The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom
Alfred Martin
Indiana University Press (2021)
Soft power and media power: western foreign correspondents and the making of Brazil’s image overseas
César Jiménez-Martínez
Place Branding and Public Diplomacy (2021)
Breaking into Hollywood: Interview strategies for media producers
David Craig
Routledge (2021)
Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines
Courtney Brannon Donoghue
NYU Press (2021)
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment
David Craig
NYU Press (2021)
Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen
Apryl Williams
Social Media + Society (2020)
Action at a Distance
John Durham Peters
The University of Minnesota Press (2020)
Populist Communication in the New Media Environment: A Cross-Regional Comparative Perspective
Lone Sorensen
Palgrave Communications (2018)
