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Jessica Marie Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University and a fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies […]
Dan O’Sullivan is the founding associate dean of the Emerging Media Institute, encompassing four departments at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is also TBS Chair at […]
Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work investigates the relationship between technology, race, and health equity. She is the author of Pleasure in […]
Catherine Knight Steele is an educator, researcher, award-winning author, and sought-after speaker specializing in race and media, with a particular emphasis on Black discourse, culture, technology, and social media. As […]
Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United […]
This article analyzes the famous Mexican website El Blog del Narco as symptomatic of the type of publicity common in contemporary Mexico and the manner in which violence has structured […]
Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the […]
In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. […]
Hector Amaya is a professor of communication and director of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. He has authored three books and has published dozens […]
Diana J. Nucera, a.k.a. “Mother Cyborg,” is a multimedia artist who uses music, performance, DIY publishing, community organizing tactics and popular education methods to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency. […]
Tara Conley is an interdisciplinary scholar and mediamaker with an established research agenda in the field of communication and media. She is also an assistant professor of media studies at […]