Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...

Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...

Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces and classrooms for fear of offending those with real or imagined historical grievances or even merely strongly held views...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

The authors offer a timely and wise analysis of globalization and how it has fundamentally transformed governance....

From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear...

Magnusson provides a sweeping overview of the tools and techniques of music-making both before and after the dawn of computing...

Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital...

Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...

Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...

An interview with Ryan P. Burge

Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...

Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...

O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...

Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories – voluntarily or not – sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media...

Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...

Wallace traces the history of how objectivity became the gold standard in journalism, and looks at examples of people who have bucked the trend along the way...

In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.

The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,

What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities?