Soundalikes and Disrupted Pleasures
Ben Aslinger / Bentley College
A consideration of music copyright struggles and their effects on business practices, audience pleasure and contemporary research.
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Extreme Weather as Everyday Genre in Subway Flood Videos
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Pennsylvania
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explores how subway flood videos transform extreme weather from spectacle into genre. As infrastructure crumbles under climate-induced disasters, viewers shift between individual frustration and collective crisis awareness. These videos blend intimate, smartphone-captured perspectives with a wider, omniscient view of urban vulnerability, bridging personal experience with public crisis. In doing so, they force audiences to confront their roles in a destabilising climate.
Read moreWhy Being A ‘Netflix Nation’ Matters – And To Whom
Georgia Aitaki / Karlstad University
Georgia Aitaki examines Netflix’s glocalization initiative and the company’s development of Greek original programming.
Read moreBuilding Cages Around the Imaginary
Brianna Dym / The Roux Institute at Northeastern University
Brianna Dym argues that the world of computer science and design need more diverse participation in order to shatter the unconscious biases that put “cages around our imagination.”
Read moreOur Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara
Baker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).
Read moreCollege Students and Impression Management on BeReal
Ananya Reddy & Priya C. Kumar / Pennsylvania State University
Ananya Reddy & Priya C. Kumar detail their findings on how college students understand impression management and BeReal.
Read moreWanting a Latina Sophie: Bridgerton and the Desire for Problematic Representation
NIna Linhales Barker / University of Texas at Austin
Nina Linhales Barker discusses the complications of Latina fans wanting to see themselves represented in Netflix’s Bridgerton.
Read moreLeft Behind: Discourses of Legitimation and MTV’s Scream: The TV Series
Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin
Hannah Wold traces some of the ways in which the horror text Scream: The TV Series received reviews that precluded it from the distinction granted to the Scream film franchise, indicating that its intended audience and the MTV brand ensured that it was left behind in discourses of quality.
Read moreThe Duffer Brothers as Fanboy Auteurs
Laurel P. Rogers / University of Texas at Austin
Laurel P. Rogers analyzes how the Duffer Brothers’ self-branding as affirmational “fanboy auteurs” affords them power and legitimacy even as, she argues, they engage in transformational practices that are more usually associated with fangirls.
Read moreUgly Crying, This is Us and the Discursive Construct of Emotional Excess
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Eleanor Patterson analyzes how the emotional excess of This is Us connects it to historically feminized theorizations of mass culture and melodrama.
Read moreWomen Horror Hosts in the Southern United States, 1957-1960
Caroline N. Bayne / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Caroline N. Bayne takes a closer look at the women behind the iconic horror personas working in Southern U.S. television during the 1950s.
Read moreFrom Hate Hoaxes to Circulatory Terrorism: The Case of #NotAgainSU
L. Corinne Jones and Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida
L. Corinne Jones and Mel Stanfill examine the social media phenomenon of “circulatory terrorism” through the #NotAgainSU hashtag.
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