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Mel Stanfill
Podcast Description
“When you are used to being dominant, equality looks like a loss.”Mel Stanfill is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Texts and Technology and Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida. Stanfill holds a PhD in Communications and Media from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stanfill’s research interrogates how the relationship between media industries and their audiences in the Internet era is shaped by labor, intellectual property law, consumption, heteronormativity, and whiteness, and has appeared in venues such as New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Cinema Journal.
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On the Invention of whiteness:Roediger, David R. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London, UK: Verso. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Whiteness-Making-American-Working/dp/1844671453 Full text PDF: https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/roediger-the-wages-of-whiteness-race-and-the-making-of-the-american-working-class.pdfBlack Internet Studies:Brock, André. 2012. “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 56 (4): 529–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2012.732147.Steele, Catherine Knight. 2016. “The Digital Barbershop: Blogs and Online Oral Culture Within the African American Community.” Social Media + Society 2 (4): 2056305116683205. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116683205.Gray, Kishonna L. 2012. “Intersecting Oppressions and Online Communities.” Information, Communication & Society 15 (3): 411–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401.Intersectionality:Cohen, Cathy J. 1997. “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 3 (4): 437–65.https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article/3/4/437/9940/Punks-Bulldaggers-and-Welfare-Queens-The-Radicalhttps://archiveofourown.org/Safiya Umoja NobleNoble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/books/9781479837243/Introduction is free to read.Some of Safiya’s talks: https://safiyaunoble.com/talks/
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“When you are used to being dominant, equality looks like a loss.”Mel Stanfill is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Texts and Technology and Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida. Stanfill holds a PhD in Communications and Media from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stanfill’s research interrogates how the relationship between media industries and their audiences in the Internet era is shaped by labor, intellectual property law, consumption, heteronormativity, and whiteness, and has appeared in venues such as New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Cinema Journal.
Additional Resources
On the Invention of whiteness:Roediger, David R. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London, UK: Verso. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Whiteness-Making-American-Working/dp/1844671453 Full text PDF: https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/roediger-the-wages-of-whiteness-race-and-the-making-of-the-american-working-class.pdfBlack Internet Studies:Brock, André. 2012. “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 56 (4): 529–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2012.732147.Steele, Catherine Knight. 2016. “The Digital Barbershop: Blogs and Online Oral Culture Within the African American Community.” Social Media + Society 2 (4): 2056305116683205. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116683205.Gray, Kishonna L. 2012. “Intersecting Oppressions and Online Communities.” Information, Communication & Society 15 (3): 411–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401.Intersectionality:Cohen, Cathy J. 1997. “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 3 (4): 437–65.https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article/3/4/437/9940/Punks-Bulldaggers-and-Welfare-Queens-The-Radicalhttps://archiveofourown.org/Safiya Umoja NobleNoble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/books/9781479837243/Introduction is free to read.Some of Safiya’s talks: https://safiyaunoble.com/talks/
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Become a #causeascene Podcast sponsor because disruption and innovation are products of individuals who take bold steps in order to shift the collective and challenge the status quo.Learn more >All music for the #causeascene podcast is composed and produced by Chaos, Chao Pack, and Listen on SoundCloud.
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