Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities...

Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...

From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days...

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...

Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...

Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...

Can robots be our friends?

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

With today's furious political and cultural divisions, it's easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us...

Why and how is fiction important to women?

Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...

Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...

Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...

Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...

Dyson is not only analyzing the tropes and themes of these series, but he is braiding them together with broader disciplinary frameworks and concepts from political science...

What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?

Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...

Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..

Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...