Articles & Chapters
A select list of articles and book chapters by CMS/W faculty, researchers, and students.
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Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life
The first systematic analysis of memes created by Palestinians in Israel. An analysis of 150 memes reveals how memes are used to reflect on and intervene in Palestinian youths’ navigation of life in mixed cities under prolonged war and colonialism.
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What is National Belonging in a Nation that Doesn’t Belong?
“They ‘bypassed the nation,’ as I had put it, and instead forged human connections that were on a local and transnational scale.”
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Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID
“The students and educators in our study emphasized themes of healing, community, and humanity as key learnings from the pandemic year and essential values to rebuilding schools.”
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Triple play, OTT TV, and the Chinese logic of “select commercialization”
“The future of the Chinese online TV industry is increasingly organized as an ecosystem economy.”
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From Media Effects to the Empathy Machine: The Nature of the Audience and the Persistence of Wishful Thinking
The shifting and often contradictory claims made for the audience, particularly in light of the documentary project.
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Of Miracles and Multiverses
In The Atlantic, Alan Lightman writes that “surprisingly, some recent proposals in physics reveal that believers and nonbelievers may have more in common than they think.”
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Restoring the Fairness Doctrine can’t prevent another Rush Limbaugh
Professor Heather Hendershot writes that “Limbaugh once boasted he had single-handedly ‘brought AM radio back from the dead.’ It was simultaneously one of the most accurate and least offensive comments he ever made.”
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Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry
In the introduction to the edited volume Ludics, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon and Vassiliki Rapti write that “this book takes the bold position that play is an antidote to dark times. Rather than an escape hatch, it provides opportunity for discovery, connection, joy, care, and relational aesthetics—conditions that are central to worldliness, not extraneous to it.”
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Heather Hendershot in the Washington Post: The 2020 party conventions are actually what the parties have always dreamed of
“Being online will give parties more control of how television viewers experience their conventions.”
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Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Empathy for the game master: how virtual reality creates empathy for those seen to be creating VR
Examining how VR directs emotional identification not toward the subjects of particular VR titles, but toward VR developers themselves.
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“Connecting the Unconnected”: A Critical Assessment of US Satellite Internet Services
Without serious commitments from governments and the private sector to follow through on this rhetoric, satellite Internet technology could fail to reach the communities that need it most.
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Exploring Gesture-Based Tangible Interactions with a Lighting AI Agent
To be presented at the 2019 International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies.
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms
First-of-its-kind field study of the media industry highlights trends, opportunities, and challenges to help advance the understanding and recognition of co-created works and practices
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Augmenting Reality: The Markers, Memories, and Meanings Behind Today’s AR
William Uricchio’s essay “considers today’s AR technologies in terms of these more deeply embedded practices of augmentation, particularly as they play out as interfaces in urban places.”
