Media Studies

This page has bibliographies, links, and other resources broadly related to Media Studies.

Abidin, Crystal, and Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. “TikTok Syllabus: Syllabus: Teaching Socio-Cultural Issues on TikTok.” TikTok Cultures Research Network (TCRN), Social Media Pop Cultures Programme, Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), Curtin University, 2021.

Albarracin, Dolores. Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped. Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. Critical Cultural Communication. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Andrejevic, Mark. Automated Media. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

———. “Data Civics: A Response to the ‘Ethical Turn.’” Television & New Media 21, no. 6 (September 2020): 562–67.https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476420919693.

Banet-Weiser, Sarah. Authentic TM: Politics and Ambivalence in a Brand Culture. Critical Cultural Communication. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

———. “Popular Misogyny: A Zeitgeist.” Culture Digitally, January 21, 2015.http://culturedigitally.org/2015/01/popular-misogyny-a-zeitgeist/.

———. “Ruptures in Authenticity and Authentic Ruptures: Producing White Influencer Vulnerability.” Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, November 8, 2021.https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/work/ruptures-in-authenticity-and-authentic-ruptures-producing-white-influencer-vulnerability.

Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth, and Michelle Ortiz. “Race, Ethnicity, and the Media.” In The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology, edited by Karen Dill. Oxford University Press, 2013.https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398809.013.0014.

Ben Moussa, Mohamed, Sanaa Benmessaoud, and Aziz Douai. “Internet Memes as ‘Tactical’ Social Action: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis Approach.” International Journal of Communication 14 (2020).

Blank, Trevor J., and Andrew Peck, eds. Folklore and Social Media. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020.

Boggs, Carl, and Tom Pollard. The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture, 2016.

Bollmer, Grant, and Katherine Guinness. “Phenomenology for the Selfie.” Cultural Politics 13, no. 2 (July 2017): 156–76.https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-4129113.

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver. Media Imperialism. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015.https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473910805.

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver, and Tanner Mirrlees, eds. Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change. Lanham: Rowman &Littlefield, 2020.

Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae, and Marika Lüders.“Time Collapse in Social Media: Extending the Context Collapse.” Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (March 8, 2018).

Brunsdon, Charlotte, Julie D’Acci, and Lynn Spigel, eds. Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Oxford Television Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Brunsdon, Charlotte, and Lynn Spigel, eds. Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. 2. ed. Maidenhead: Open Univ. Press, 2008.

Butter, Michael, ed. Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.

Carilli, Theresa, and Jane Campbell, eds. Challenging Images of Women in the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2012.

Carolus, Astrid, Jens F Binder, Ricardo Muench, Catharina Schmidt, Florian Schneider, and Sarah L Buglass. “Smartphones as Digital Companions: Characterizing the Relationship between Users and Their Phones.” New Media & Society 21, no. 4 (April 2019): 914–38.https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818817074.

Christin, Angèle. Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Clark, Rosemary, Jasmine Erdener, Elisabetta Ferrari, and Guobin Yang. “Activist Media.” Oxford University Press, June 27, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756841-0182.

Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Out of the Shadows, into the Streets!: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014.

Couldry, Nick. Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice. Cambridge ; Malden, MA: Polity,2012.

Couldry, Nick, and Andreas Hepp. The Mediated Construction of Reality. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity Press,2017.

Coyne, Sarah M., Jennifer Ruh Linder, Eric E. Rasmussen, David A. Nelson, and Victoria Birkbeck. “Pretty as a Princess: Longitudinal Effects of Engagement With Disney Princesses on Gender Stereotypes, Body Esteem, and Prosocial Behavior in Children.” Child Development 87, no. 6 (November 2016): 1909–25.https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12569.

Craig, Steve, ed. Men, Masculinity, and the Media. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1992.https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483326023.

Dean, Jodi. “Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics.” Cultural Politics 1, no. 1(2005): 51–74.

———. Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

Dhanani, Lindsay Y., and Berkeley Franz. “The Role of News Consumption and Trust in Public Health Leadership in ShapingCOVID-19 Knowledge and Prejudice.” Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2020):2812. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560828.

Dijck, José van. “Facebook as a Tool for Producing Sociality and Connectivity.” Television & New Media 13,no. 2 (March 2012): 160–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476411415291.

———. “‘You Have One Identity’: Performing the Self on Facebook and LinkedIn.” Media, Culture & Society 35, no.2 (March 2013): 199–215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712468605.

Dill, Karen, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Douglas, Susan J. The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011.

Driel, Loes van, and Delia Dumitrica. “Selling Brands While Staying ‘Authentic’: The Professionalization of Instagram Influencers.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 27, no. 1 (February 2021): 66–84.https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520902136.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Douglas Kellner, eds. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. 2nd ed. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.

Eklund, Douglas, Ian Alteveer, and Jonathan Lethem. Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

Ellcessor, Elizabeth. Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation. Postmillennial Pop. New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Erzurum, Funda. “Representation of Women in Turkish Television’s Primetime News.” Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 3, no. 2 (April 24, 2013).https://doi.org/10.29333/ojcmt/2428.

Farkas, Johan, and Jannick Schou. Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood. Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society 19. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.

Florini, Sarah. Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. New York: New York University Press,2019.

Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking Recognition.” New Left Review 3 (May 2000).

Gerbaudo, Paolo. Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London: Pluto Press, 2012.

Giaccardi, Soraya, L. Monique Ward, RitaC. Seabrook, Adriana Manago, and Julia Lippman. “Media and Modern Manhood: Testing Associations Between Media Consumption and Young Men’s Acceptance of Traditional Gender Ideologies.” Sex Roles 75, no. 3–4 (August 2016): 151–63.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-016-0588-z.

Giddings, Seth, and Martin Lister, eds. The New Media and Technocultures Reader. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge,2011.

Gill, Rosalind. Gender and the Media. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA: Polity, 2007.

Giraud, Eva. “Has Radical Participatory Online Media Really ‘Failed’? Indymedia and Its Legacies.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 20, no. 4(2014): 419–37.

Giroux, Henry A., and Grace Pollock. The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence. Updated and Expanded ed. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

Goering, Christian Z., and P. L. Thomas, eds. Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America. Critical Media Literacies Series, volume 2. Leiden ; Boston: Brill Sense, 2018.

Gómez García, Rodrigo, and Ben Birkinbine.“Cultural Imperialism Theories.” In Communication. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756841-0209.

Groĭs, Boris. Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of the Media. Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Gunus, Burcu. “Un/Queering Turkish TV.” In The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, edited by Karen Ross, Ingrid Bachmann, Valentina Cardo, Sujata Moorti, and Marco Scarcelli, 1st ed. Wiley, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.

Hanke, Robert. “Redesigning Men: Hegemonic Masculinity in Transition.” In Men, Masculinity, and the Media, edited by Steve Craig, 185–98. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.,1992. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483326023.n13.

Haralovich, Mary Beth, and Andrea L. Press. “New Feminist Television Studies: Queries Into Postfeminist Television.” The Communication Review 15, no. 3 (July 2012): 163–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2012.714697.

Haralovich, Mary Beth, and Andrea L Press. The New Feminist Television Studies Queries into Postfeminist Television,2019. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019010904053924515731.

Hawkins, Spencer. “Queerly Turkish: Queer Masculinity and National Belonging in the Image of Zeki Müren.” Popular Music and Society 41, no. 2 (March 15, 2018): 99–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2016.1212625.

Hine, Christine. Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Humphreys, Lee. Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. MIT Press, 2019.

Ingraham, Chris, and Joshua Reeves. “New Media, New Panics.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 5(October 19, 2016): 455–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2016.1227863.

Jackson, Sarah J., Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles. #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. The MIT Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10858.001.0001.

Jenkins, Henry. By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism. Connected Youth and Digital Futures. New York, [New York]: New York University Press, 2016.

———. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Kies, Bridget, and Megan Connor, eds. Fandom, the next Generation. Fandom & Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022.

Kraidy, Marwan M. “Boycotting Neo-Ottoman Cool: Geopolitics and Media Industries in the Egypt-Turkey Row over Television Drama.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 12, no. 2(September 13, 2019): 149–65. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01202010.

———. “Contention and Circulation in the Digital Middle East: Music Video As Catalyst.” Television & New Media14, no. 4 (July 2013): 271–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476412463450.

———. Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life. Communication, Society and Politics. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Kraidy, Marwan M., and Omar Al-Ghazzi. “Neo-Ottoman Cool: Turkish Popular Culture in the Arab Public Sphere.” Popular Communication 11, no. 1 (January 2013): 17–29.https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2013.747940.

Kwet, Michael. “Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South.” Race & Class60, no. 4 (April 2019): 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396818823172.

Levina, Marina. Pandemics and the Media. Peter Lang US, 2015.

Lievrouw, Leah A. Alternative and Activist New Media. Digital Media and Society Series. Cambridge, UK ;Malden, MA: Polity, 2011.

Linden, Sander van der, Costas Panagopoulos, and Jon Roozenbeek. “You Are Fake News: Political Bias in Perceptions of Fake News.” Media, Culture & Society 42, no. 3 (April2020): 460–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720906992.

Literat, Ioana, and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik.“How Popular Culture Prompts Youth Collective Political Expression and Cross-Cutting Political Talk on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis.” Social Media + Society 7, no. 2 (April 2021): 205630512110088.https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211008821.

Lopez, Lori Kido, ed. Race and Media: Critical Approaches. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Malin, Brenton J. Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America. Critical Cultural Communication. New York ; London: New York University Press, 2014.

Mandiberg, Michael, ed. The Social Media Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Marwick, Alice, Rachel Kuo, Shanice Jones Cameron, and Moira Weigel. “Critical Disinformation Studies: A Syllabus.” Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., 2021. http://citap.unc.edu/critical-disinfo.

Miller, Quinlan. Camp TV: Trans GenderQueer Sitcom History. Duke University Press, 2020.https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003397.

Mitchell, Scott, and Sheryl N Hamilton. “Playing at Apocalypse: Reading Plague Inc. in Pandemic Culture.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 24, no. 6(December 2018): 587–606. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856516687235.

Monahan, Brian A. The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Murphy, Patrick, and Marwan M. Kraidy, eds. Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Murray, Susan, and Laurie Ouellette, eds. Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Nygaard, Taylor, and Jorie Lagerwey. Horrible White People: Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Orgad, Shani. Media Representation and the Global Imagination. Global Media and Communication. Cambridge ; Malden, MA: Polity, 2012.

Ouellette, Laurie, and Jonathan Gray, eds. Keywords for Media Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2017.

Özcan, Esra. “Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Turkey: Struggles Over Media Representations and Discourses in the Past and Present.” International Journal of Communication 14 (2020):5455–62.

Parks, Lisa. “Field Mapping: What Is the ‘Media’ of Media Studies?” Television & New Media 21, no. 6 (September2020): 642–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476420919701.

Petre, Caitlin. All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Pickard, Victor W. America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. Communication, Society and Politics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

———. “Assessing the Radical Democracy of Indymedia: Discursive, Technical, and Institutional Constructions.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 23, no. 1 (March 2006): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393180600570691.

Poell, Thomas. “Three Challenges for Media Studies in the Age of Platforms.” Television & New Media 21, no. 6(September 2020): 650–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476420918833.

Press, Andrea Lee, and Francesca Tripodi. Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms,2021.

Radu, Roxana. “Fighting the ‘Infodemic’: Legal Responses to COVID-19 Disinformation.” Social Media + Society 6,no. 3 (July 2020): 205630512094819. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948190.

Ranji, Banafsheh. “Traces of Orientalism in Media Studies.” Media, Culture & Society 43, no. 6 (September2021): 1136–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211022692.

Reeves, Joshua. “Automatic for the People: The Automation of Communicative Labor.” Communication and Critical/CulturalStudies 13, no. 2 (April 2, 2016): 150–65.https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2015.1108450.

Richardson, Allissa V. Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Richardson, Niall, and Sadie Wearing. Gender in the Media. Key Concerns in Media Studies. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Rodriguez, Clara E. America, as Seen on TV: How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations around the Globe. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Ross, Karen, Ingrid Bachmann, ValentinaCardo, Sujata Moorti, and Marco Scarcelli, eds. The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. 1st ed. Wiley, 2020.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.

Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Rev. ed.,1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Saraswati, L. Ayu. Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie. New York: New York University Press, 2021.

Schiller, Herbert I. Communication and Cultural Domination. 1st ed. Routledge, 2019.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179162.

Semali, Ladislaus M., and Ann Watts Pailliotet, eds. Intermediality: The Teachers’ Handbook of Critical Media Literacy. 1st ed. Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429499722.

Shaheen, Jack G. “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 588, no. 1 (July 2003): 171–93.https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203588001011.

Shaw, Adrienne. “Encoding and Decoding Affordances: Stuart Hall and Interactive Media Technologies.” Media, Culture& Society 39, no. 4 (May 2017): 592–602.https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443717692741.

Silverstone, Roger. Media and Morality: On the Rise of the Mediapolis. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity Press,2007.

Tawil-Souri, Helga. “It’s Still About the Power of Place.” Middle East Journal Of Culture And Communication 5, no.1 (2012): 86–95. https://doi.org/10.1163/187398612X624418.

Thompson, Ethan, and Jason Mittell, eds. How to Watch Television. Second edition. How To. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Thornham, Sue, ed. Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Uscinski, Joseph E., ed. Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

———. The People’s News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

Vosoughi, Soroush, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral. “The Spread of True and False News Online.” Science 359, no. 6380(March 9, 2018): 1146–51. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559.

Weber, Brenda R. Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity. Edited by Lynn Spigel. Duke University Press,2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391234.

Whitmer, Jennifer M. “You Are Your Brand: Self-Branding and the Marketization of Self.” Sociology Compass 13, no.3 (March 2019): e12662. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12662.

Wilkins, Karin Gwinn. Prisms of Prejudice: Mediating the Middle East from the United States. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021.

Williams, Raymond. “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” New Left Review 0, no. 82(November 1, 1973): 3–16.

———. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. Routledge Classics. London ; New York: Routledge, 2003.

Wolfson, Todd. Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left. History of Communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Zorlu, Deniz. “Canned Adaptations and International Success of Turkish TV.” VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 9, no. 17 (August 31, 2020): 93.https://doi.org/10.18146/view.228.