{"title":"Pitchfork’s authenticity problem: the critical reception of Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne","authors":"Margaret A. Murray","doi":"10.1093/CCC/TCAB003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CCC/TCAB003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article turns a critical eye on the arguments deployed by Pitchfork, one of the most popular music websites, when reviewing two artists: Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne. Rhetorically analyzing the reception of these two artists is illuminating because both had indie breakouts in 2008, both release genre-spanning music, and both have had over a decade of commercial success. However, Vampire Weekend’s whiteness enables them to benefit from authenticity tropes that are unavailable to Lil Wayne. The analysis will show how Lil Wayne is essentialized as a rapper who is unauthorized to move beyond that genre. Overall, this article examines authenticity as the rhetorical move by which exclusion is constructed and highlights how assumptions about the relationship between race and performance are key to arguments about artistry.","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"167 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74854712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From “Mayo” Pete to Joe Exotic: HowTiger KingTaught Us How to be Queer Again","authors":"Brandon Arroyo","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcaa031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"1 1","pages":"564-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90259713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Relations: A Queer of Color Critique of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance","authors":"E. Ciszek, N. Rodriguez","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcaa024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa024","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article employs a queer of color critique as a theoretical lens to analyze the experiences of queer activists of color involved in mobilizing against oppressive laws in Texas. Through a queer of color critique, this interview-based study analyzes the internal power dynamics within a political campaign to uncover how they shaped the possibilities afforded to queer persons of color, what strategies queer people of color developed for resisting power and asserting agency, and how queer of color critique informs public relations theory. The purpose of this article is to advance critical work in public relations research, a commitment that is significant for critical and cultural communication studies.","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"14 1","pages":"536-555"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90683822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tiger King’s Meme-ification of White Grievance and the Normalization of Misogyny","authors":"Jorie Lagerwey, Taylor Nygaard","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcaa028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"118 1","pages":"560-563"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77383436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media, Affect, and Authoritarian Futures in “New Turkey:” Spectacular Confessions on Television in the Post-Coup Era","authors":"Ergin Bulut, Başak Can","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcaa022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A spectacular shock doctrine is reformatting Turkey since the failed coup in July 2016. We examine how the television economy transformed the organization behind the coup (FETÖ) from a public secret into a spectacle. We investigate the televised confessions of former Gulenists, who revealed the scandalous FETÖ’s inner workings live on television. We argue that former Gulenists’ media performances based on confession, apology, and spectacular secrecy captured public affect to justify their complicity with the putschists rather than bringing political justice. The government capitalized on these confessions as part of its strategic information warfare to tame the opposition after the coup, while reconstructing Gulenists as a weird cult rather than a political network. As the citizens were bombarded with affective televisual confessions, politicians secured authoritarian futures without a glimpse of justice, because these shows spectacularly erased the networks behind the coup.","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"48 1","pages":"403-421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81113196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tiger King, Stranger-Than-Fiction, and the Insistence of Reality Television","authors":"Hunter Hargraves","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcaa027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"9 1","pages":"556-559"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78932981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anticipatory Futures: Framing the Socio-technical Visions of Online Ratings and Reviews in Wired","authors":"Ngai Keung Chan","doi":"10.1093/CCC/TCAA034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CCC/TCAA034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Drawing insights from the sociology of expectations and recent studies on future visions in communication studies, this article traces and analyzes how Wired—a technology news provider and socio-technical vanguard whose vision is to uncover technological innovations—anticipated socio-technical visions of online ratings and reviews over two decades (1998–2018). The qualitative textual analysis of Wired’s coverage revealed two socio-technical visions, namely, promissory futures and problematic futures. The former embraced neoliberal discourses of consumer empowerment and accountability, whereas the latter entailed a pessimistic evaluation of the manipulation of online ratings and the potential of adopting online ratings beyond e-commerce platforms. The visions represented in Wired largely followed the logic of “technological solutionism.” This study affords opportunities for thinking about the role of popular media discourses and temporalities in shaping imagined futures of emerging technologies.","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85467471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instagramming Diasporic Mobilities: The Black Travel Movement and Differential Spatial Racialization","authors":"Charnell Peters","doi":"10.1093/CCC/TCAA033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CCC/TCAA033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The 2010s saw the onset of the Black Travel Movement—an influx of travel companies aimed at a rising Black customer base, whose travel habits are redefining a traditionally White industry. This study interrogates how Black travel companies produce representations that create new possibilities for Blackness on a global scale. To that end, this article forwards the concept of differential spatial racialization. Differential spatial racialization builds from the Critical Race Theory (CRT) concept of differential racialization to explicate how race and racial meanings change across spatial contexts. This article undertakes a narrative analysis of the Instagram accounts of two prominent Black travel companies, Travel Noire and Nomadness Travel Tribe. Results reveal how Travel Noire and Nomadness Travel Tribe minimize the presence of differential spatial racialization by drawing on discourses of global Blackness. Simultaneously, their homogenous depictions and curated posts erase and idealize processes of differential spatial racialization in Black travel.","PeriodicalId":54193,"journal":{"name":"Communication Culture & Critique","volume":"7 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90416937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}