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Transmedia Joker

Theme week organized by
Anthony DannarGeorgia State University

Transmedia Joker Introduction: Trickster or Troll, Revolutionary or Reactionary?

By Anthony Dannar

Joker, Jesters, and Gender: Subverting Social Standards

By Christina Knopf

That Joker on TV

By Michael Mazzacane

The Joker as Middle Eastern Other

By Stephen Bennett

Smoothing the Edges Down on LEGO Joker

By Kalervo A. Sinervo

The Joker[s] and American Pan-Evolution

By Kyle A. Hammonds

Critical Media Forensics

Theme week organized by
PatrickBrianSmithUniversity of Warwick

Critical Media Forensics: Theme Week Introduction

By PatrickBrianSmith

No forensics without media

By Thomas Keenan

Deepfakes claims, deepfake detection and the forensic mindset

By Sam Gregory

"A Tourist Visit This Was Not": Forensic Journalism and the U.S. Capitol Riot

By Kelly Gates

Myopia and Focus in Event Reconstruction

By Helmuth Rosales

Logische Phantasie Lab. Media Forensics in the Web3

By Daniela Gandorfer Andrea Leiter

Digital Reconstructions, Forensic Listening, and the Sounds of Prison in Syria

By Ryan Watson

The Materiality of Mediated Conflict and Resistance

By Philipp Budka Birgit Bräuchler

Dune (2021)

Theme week organized by
Anthony DannarGeorgia State University

Without change, something sleeps inside us…Transmutations of DUNE

By Alexandra Nakelski

Messages from the Deep: Psychoanalyzing "Dune"

By Alexander Greenhough

Representational Change in Villeneuve's Dune

By Laurel P Rogers

Dune & The Climate Crisis

By Cassandra Troy

Does Baron Harkonnen Have To Be Gay? Examining Homosexual Representation in Dune

By Mychal Reiff-Shanks

Squid Game

Theme week organized by
Anthony DannarGeorgia State University

Red Light Greener Pastures: Squid Game, Border Crossing, and Postcolonial Games

By Madeline Ha-Eun Hawk

Fair Play and Perverse Systems in Squid Game

By Matt Knutson

Dystopia or Utopia: Are you willing to participate in the Squid Game?

By Dongjoon Lee

Squid Game as Pedagogical Tool

By Anthony Dannar

Critical Role

Theme week organized by
Maria K. AlbertoUniversity of Utah

How Accretive Phantasia Can Illuminate Communal Creativity in the Fan Art of Critical Role

By jtloveridge

Fandom Iconography and 'Reading' Critical Role Fanart

By Maria K. Alberto

"A Pie-Based Culture": Adding Southern Roots to Byroden

By Emily C. Friedman

Negotiating Ethos: Critical Role and the Wendy's One-Shot Controversy

By Jboykin

Meeting Your Heroes: The Critical Role of Parasocial Relationships, Public Personas, and Safe Spaces for the Wonderfully Weird

By Rae Lyn Fox

Fall Staff Picks 2021

Theme week organized by
Anthony DannarGeorgia State University

Bye Mom, I Love You.

By Susan Sci

Exploring Uncanny Gender Representations through Alice Angel and Ink Bendy

By Ashley Jones

From Sacred to Sacrilegious: Armenian Human-Water Relations

By Elitza Kotzeva Garabet Kazanjian Lilit Khacharyan

Professional Pleasures: Stephanie Rothman’s The Student Nurses and Sociable Abortion

By Alanna Thain

Gavin McInnes and the Reactionary Politics of Right-Wing Comedy

By Nick Marx

Representation of Reproduction

Theme week organized by
Lauren HeroldBeloit College
StephHeroldAdvancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

The New Male Pregnancy

By Jon Heggestad

Professional Pleasures: Stephanie Rothman’s The Student Nurses and Sociable Abortion

By Alanna Thain

Reproductive Labor in Children’s Films: The Boss Baby and Storks

By Clare Daniel

Perinatal Mental Health in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (2016)

By AnnaMcFarlane

Lucia, Before and After: Representations of Abortion Access

By JessGanttShafer

Media Seascapes and the Criminal Imaginary

Theme week organized by
Lisa HanArizona State University
Rachel FabianPurchase College SUNY

Beyond the Bay: Transnational Seascapes in The Investigation

By Rachel Fabian

Ichthyoveillance: Fish Spies and the Militarization of Marine Wildlife

By Lisa Han

From Sacred to Sacrilegious: Armenian Human-Water Relations

By Elitza Kotzeva Garabet Kazanjian Lilit Khacharyan

Pirate Utopias and Revolution in Starz Black Sails (2014 – 2017)

By Chris Nunn

Mortuary Media

Theme week organized by
Anna Louise B WiegensteinOklahoma State University

Death/Care in The Casketeers

By Anna Louise B Wiegenstein

"Kids deserve an honest answer:" Caitlin Doughty's death education for all

By Cecilia Salomone

Electrifying the Dead: The Psycho Franchise and Industrial Horror

By Alex_Remington

Reactionary Media

Theme week organized by
Anthony DannarGeorgia State University

Fox News: “Don’t Worry, Be Anxious”

By Mark Andrejevic
6 comments

“A conversation isn't a co-sign:” An investigation of Joe Rogan and deplatforming

By Michael Blight
3 comments

Making America Great Again: Nostalgia, Hucksterism, and the Empty Signifier

By Andrew J. Salvati
2 comments

Encrypted Messaging, The Capitol Riot, and Playing War

By Anthony Dannar

Gavin McInnes and the Reactionary Politics of Right-Wing Comedy

By Nick Marx

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