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View article: From #MelaninMansion to #BlackTikTokStrike: Black TikTok, Joy, and the Politics of Refusal
From #MelaninMansion to #BlackTikTokStrike: Black TikTok, Joy, and the Politics of Refusal Open
In this article, we critically analyze TikTok videos related to the #MelaninMansion trend and the #BlackTikTokStrike. Videos analyzed were posted during the hashtags’ peak engagement, 2019–2020, and the summer of 2021, respectively. Drawin…
View article: Community Rankings and Affective Discipline: The Case of Fandometrics
Community Rankings and Affective Discipline: The Case of Fandometrics Open
Tumblr’s Fandometrics is a metrics project that posts weekly fandom rankings for TV shows, movies, music, video games, ‘ships,’ and more. Tumblr describes the rankings as representing “each fandom’s influence across Tumblr.” This influence…
View article: The Imagined Industry
The Imagined Industry Open
Media studies scholars have long examined media industries’ fascination with audiences, detailing industries’ incessant work to define, locate, and measure media consumers. If audiences prove elusive and alluring for media, it is important…
View article: IN(TER)DEPENDENCE IN PLATFORMED CREATION
IN(TER)DEPENDENCE IN PLATFORMED CREATION Open
In recent years, a variety of cultural industries have been transformed by platformization – a process in which technology companies serve as intermediaries connecting different parties (most importantly cultural producers and audiences) t…
View article: Making Sense of Metrics in the Music Industries
Making Sense of Metrics in the Music Industries Open
This article considers how media workers and organizations make use of the abundance of metrics available in the contemporary online environment. The expansion of audience measurement on digital music platforms, dashboard analytics, and th…
View article: RACING THE PLATFORM/PLATFORMING RACE
RACING THE PLATFORM/PLATFORMING RACE Open
Race and racism are enduring structural forces that have a hand in virtually every aspect of society; the internet and its vast array of platforms, applications, devices, and cultures are well within their grasp (Nakamura and Chow-White, 2…
View article: Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites Open
This article explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third-party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major …
View article: Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and\n tracking on porn websites
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and\n tracking on porn websites Open
This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our\nanalysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a\nthird party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of\nmajor…
View article: Desperately Seeking the Producer: Audiences, Identity, and the Margins of the Internet
Desperately Seeking the Producer: Audiences, Identity, and the Margins of the Internet Open
Ang (1991) noted that for media industries, “…television audiences remain extremely difficult to define, attract and keep. The institutions must forever ‘desperately seek the audience’” (p. ix). I contend that just as often, media audience…