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Beyond deviance: toxic gaming culture and the potential for positive change 超越越轨:有毒的游戏文化和积极改变的潜力

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2080848

Kelly Boudreau

引用次数: 5

Unmanning: how humans, machines, and media perform drone warfare 无人驾驶:人类、机器和媒体如何进行无人机战争

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2058763

Ned O’Gorman

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I’m gonna wreck it, again: the false dichotomy of “healthy” and “toxic” masculinity in Ralph Breaks the Internet 我要再一次破坏它:《拉尔夫打破互联网》中“健康”和“有毒”男子气概的错误二分法

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2067347

Max Dosser

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引用次数: 1

Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation 胡里奥·托雷斯和美国中美洲代表的酷儿潜力

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2070230

Nathan Rossi

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Journey to the stars program: the gendered and generational governance of professionalization on Wattpad 星际之旅:Wattpad职业化的性别和代际治理

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2069279

Anthony Twarog

引用次数: 1

White masculinity in the “New Cold War”: reading Rocky IV and White Nights as multidirectional memories “新冷战”中的白人男子气概:将《洛奇4》和《白夜》解读为多向记忆

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2059540

D. Valkanova

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White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’s Unorthodox 白人世俗主义:奈飞《非正统》中宗教的种族化

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-04-06 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2056217

Elaine Schnabel

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引用次数: 1

On pause, an essay on the inverse logics of quarantine and Black asphyxia 暂停，一篇关于隔离和黑窒息的反向逻辑的文章

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-03-19 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2049617

A. Dial

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Narrating the past on fairer terms: approaches to building multicultural public memory 以更公平的方式叙述过去:构建多元文化公共记忆的方法

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-03-16 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2049616

Jasmine T. Austin, Jill A. Edy

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引用次数: 3

Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene 黏糊糊的手指和污浊的声音:黑胶唱片和媒体卫生的混乱

IF 1 2区文学

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2022.2043556

Rachel Plotnick

引用次数: 2