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DashCon Discourses: Through a Feminist Lens
This past weekend (July 11-13), I attended DashCon, the first con exclusively devoted to Tumblr users (although not affiliated with Tumblr). Because of poor management by a staff that was...
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Vemödalen and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I was lured to the video Vemödalen through well-placed Buzzfeed clickbait on my Facebook feed. The algorithmic humming of social media’s shadow market for user profiles probably had me pegged as a...
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And the Grammy Nominees are [On Twitter]…
As viewing patterns have shifted dramatically over the past two decades, fragmenting audiences and delaying viewing in what we characterize as a post-network era, the televised award show has...
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The Gendered Politics of Digital Brand Labor
This post is part of a partnership with the International Journal of Cultural Studies, where authors of newly published articles extend their arguments here on Antenna. Amid the flood of actors,...
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#SCMS15: The Conference as Media Event
In his well-known work on media events, Elihu Katz describes occasions including state funerals, moon landings, Olympic games, and the Eurovision song contest, as “high holidays” of media, with their...
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#SaladGate: When Social Media Disrupts an Insular Media Culture
Post by David Crider, State University of New York at Oswego As someone who has previously written for Antenna about country music radio’s gender problem, I have been following the “#SaladGate”...
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A Very Uneasy Death: Social Media and Cecil the Lion
Post by Cynthia Chris, City University of New York Late in July, a lion named Cecil became an Internet sensation. Unfortunately, his global glory was posthumous: on July 1, an American dentist named...
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Hindi Cinema: Coming Soon To A Tweet Near You
Post by Sripana Ray, The Telegraph, Calcutta This post continues the ongoing “From Nottingham and Beyond” series, with contributions from faculty and alumni of the University of Nottingham’s Department...
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Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century
Post by Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The editors at Antenna graciously have invited me to contribute a series of posts upon the release of a new book I’ve edited, Cupcakes,...
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The New Hegemonic Hierarchy: Tracking (Men’s) Athletic Activity
Post by Rebecca Feasey, Bath Spa University This post continues the ongoing “From Nottingham and Beyond” series, with contributions from faculty and alumni of the University of Nottingham’s Department...
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