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Looking for an Outside: The Promises (and Limits) of Modding

Theme week organized by
Micheal B. RainesGeorgia State Univ.

Platform Politics: Facilitating Play by Governing Modifications

By Caleb Ward

The Melodramatic Mod

By Mickey Randle

Mods all the way down: The Stanley Parable’s Raw Materials

Sex, Desire, and Procedural Autonomy in Skyrim’s “Horny Mods”

Entitled to a Happy Ending?: Mass Effect 3 and the Contestable Ethics of Modding the Narrative

By Micheal B. Raines

Netflix Style

Theme week organized by
Kate FortmuellerGeorgia State University

The Streaming Blockbuster: Intensifying Form in Netflix’s The Gray Man (2022)

By Christopher Lizza

The Sonic Cueing of Genre Hybridity in Netflix’s Triple Frontier (2019)

By Isabel Berlin

Dreaming Black Love: The Reimagined Hybrid Rom-Com in Netflix’s Entergalactic

By Gabrielle Latimore

Deciphering the Netflix Style through Textual Graphics

By James Kannanthara

Reflections on the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup

Theme week organized by
Ethan TusseyGeorgia State University

Imagining Possibilities at the 2026 Men's World Cup

By Ethan Tussey

Telemundo vs Fox: Established vs. Event Soccer Fans Appeal

By Charlotte Howell

What is a Social View? The Fragmenting Sports Mega Event

By Kathryn Hartzell

Responses Between Authors

By Ethan Tussey Charlotte Howell Kathryn Hartzell

Representation & Television: Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference 2026

Theme week organized by
Jeffrey W. PetersonGeorgia State University

Who Are We Laughing at Tonight: Black Absence in 2000s American Sitcoms

By Jeffrey W. Peterson

Race-Swapping, Race-Baiting, and the Travails of Black Representation in HBO’s House of the Dragon

By Milt Moise

Netflix Globalization in Nollywood: the Case of Far From Home 2022

By Julius Aderogba Odewabi

Art Signals: The Rise of Black Art in Late 20th Century Broadcast Television

By Bradley Petty

Movies the Video: Allusions and Pastiche in Music Videos

Theme week organized by
Thomas GoodchildGeorgia State University

Be the Femme Fatale: Noir Props in Mitski’s “Washing Machine Heart” Music Video

By Thomas Goodchild

The Spectacle and His Master: Allusions to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) in Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

By Charles Suor

"Light Up the Night" and a Band's Pivot from Videogame Fandom to 80s Nostalgia

By Micheal B. Raines

Audiovisual Afterlives: The Film Tie-In Music Video and Rod Wave's "Sinners"

By Joshua Lee Yates

Opticality: Seeing in the Way of Things

Theme week organized by
liquid blacknessGeorgia State University

Studying to See

By Daren Fowler PhD

The Residue of the Return

By djones PhD

The (Black)Maternal Function and Opticality

By Lizette London

Uncertainty is the Point

By Anna Winter MFA

Soulful Cinema, an Instrument… A Weapon… and Probably a Hat

By Corey Coach PhD

Representations of Families in the Media

Theme week organized by
Dr. Narissra Punyanunt-CarterTexas Tech Universiy

When Protection Becomes Secrecy: Communication Privacy Management in This Is Us

By Mikayla Koppy

Never Have I Ever: Navigating the Autonomy-Connection Dialectic

By Gianmarco Soares de Vargas

Redefining Authority: Family Communication and Identity Formation in Avatar: The Last Airbender

By ChrisLynne Stokes

Talk as Survival: Family Communication Patterns and Nontraditional Family Life in Shameless

By Sumeyya Akdilek

Co-Parenting in Contemporary Television: Jane The Virgin

By Mackenzie Mickavicz

Winter Olympics

Theme week organized by
Ethan TusseyGeorgia State University

Slip and Fall: Winter Olympics Wipeouts and Injury Videos

By Ethan Tussey

The Mediated Spectacle of the Olympic Fall

By Brett Siegel

U.S. Olympic Hockey, Media Discourse, and the Pervasiveness of the Myth of Sports’ Unifying Power

By Kristin Wells

The Stories We Find in Spaces, the Memories We Share in Place: An Interdisciplinary & Intersectional Exploration of Culture, History, and Placemaking

Theme week organized by
Mikayla RenwickTexas A&M University
Asha S. WinfieldLouisiana State University

Black Placemaking Across Terrains: Exploring and (Re)defining the Culture & Place of Black Philly

By Mikayla Renwick Asha S. Winfield

Home is where the heart is: Dying to live in Cancer Alley

By Joshua Jordan

Where Stories Rest: Encountering Community and Memory

By Jennifer Blanks

‘We Look Out for One Another’: Collective Survival in the Face of Disaster

By Chandler Wilkins

Mapping Queer Rhetorical Hauntings

By Anum Ahmed

The Screening Group – Antagonism – Part Two

Theme week organized by
Jordan ChrietzbergGeorgia State University

One is Never Enough

By Jenny Gunn

You Can’t Unfuck a Myth-Poetic: (failed?) Antagonism in Battle in Heaven

By Christopher Minz

Excavations and Confrontations with Labor in Kaori Oda's Aragane

By Jarred Biederstaedt

An Argument in the Ordinary

By Sara Ghazi Asadollahi

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