Beyond the fact that my latest book, “Digital Culture in the Platform Era: Studying Celebrity, Influence, and Superstars Online,” has given me a place to flesh out some of my previous concepts I covered with a little more clarity, the book became a way to organize my research agenda to...
This research was presented at Theorizing the Web 2017 in Brooklyn, NY on the 8th of April. The focus of the presentation was to examine the narratives from Appalachian regional media sources and national media sources that describe the Appalachia region and people & their views of the national election....
One of the reasons I tend to return to the Theorizing the Web conference is that it represents this cool hybrid between an academic conference, a performative space, a professional development hangout, & a grad/undergrad research workshop. It has the trappings of the traditional conference with semi-structured panels and experts in various...
