The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2024), xx, 317 pp.
"The urgency and complexity of contemporary social justice issues facing the world today mean that activists, scholars, and storytellers need a readily available compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on media and social justice. This handbook represents the collective wisdom of over 40 leading voices across positionalities and perspectives, geographies and generations, meta-theories and methods, and issues and identities. Each of the 32 chapters presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of a brief history, key concepts, contemporary debates and dialogues, and future directions. We begin with introductory remarks on perspectives, positionalities, and paradigms. The section on Approaches & Analytical Frameworks examine classic and contemporary media theories related to social justice such as political economy, critical cultural studies, reception studies, and framing analyses. The next section on "Methods & Meaning Making" reviews methodological tools such as quantitative criticalism, media ethnography, and critical discourse analysis for media justice researchers. These theories and methods are then applied to specific intersectional identities, contemporary social issues, and communities worldwide in the next section: "Resistance & Revisioning." We conclude with reflections on resistances, reckoning, and reparative justice." (Publisher description)
SECTION A: INTRODUCTION
1 Perspectives, Positionalities, and Paradigms in Media & Social Justice Scholarship / Omotayo O. Banjo and Srividya Ramasubramanian, 3
SECTION B: APPROACHES AND ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS
2 Political Economy of Communication in the Digital Platform Era / Dal Yong Jin, 13
3 The Limits of Diversity and Popular Anti-Racism: The Need for Reparative Justice in the Cultural Industries / Anamik Saha, 20
4 Critical Media Effects: A Framework for Bridging Critical Cultural Communication with Media Effects Research / Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo, 28
5 Black Audiences and Media Resistance / David Stamps, 44
6 "How Do You Shift That?": Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies / jas l. moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph, 52
7 Latine Media Studies: From Near Omission to Radical Intersectionality / Angharad N. Valdivia, 62
8 Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies / Keisuke Kimura and Shinsuke Eguchi, 70
9 Queer and Transgender Media Studies / Erique Zhang and Thomas J. Billard, 78
10 Digital Religion and the Negotiation of Gender/Sex Norms / Ruth Tsuria, 87
11 Critical Disability Media Studies / Katie Ellis and Jessica Keeley, 97
SECTION C: METHODS AND MEANING MAKING
12 Critical Discourse Analysis / Marissa Doshi, 107
13 Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice / Srividya Ramasubramanian, Shannon Burth, and Minnie Macmillian, 115
14 Justice Informatics, Justice for Us All: Liberation from Techno-Ideology / Jasmina Tacheva and Tanya Loughead, 124
15 Researching Closed Fields: What We Can Learn from Analyzing So-Called Constrained, Inaccessible and Invisible Media Contexts / Hanan Badr, 131
16 Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings: A Data Feminist Approach to Transnational Feminist Media Studies and Social Media Activism / Ololade M. Faniyi & Radhika Gajjala, 141
SECTION D: RESISTANCE AND REVISIONING
17 Mediated Socioeconomic Injustice: Representations of Poor and Working Class People in Mainstream Media / Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay, 153
18 Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema / Swarnavel Eswaran, 166
19 Media Representations, Incarceration, and Social Justice / Adam Key, 176
20 Heroes of the Border: Using Counternarratives to Break Border Stereotypes and Create Superhero Narratives / Anthony R. Ramirez, 186
21 Media Creation and Consumption as Activism among African Transnational and Diasporic communities / Omotayo O. Banjo and Tomide Oloruntobi, 193
22 Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok / Elisha Lim, Satveer Kaur-Gill, and Krittiya Kantachote, 205
23 Media & Mental Health Interventions among Migrants: Addressing the Disparities / Rukhsana Ahmed and Seulgi Park, 216
24 Health Media Activism: Latin American Organizing in Response to Feminicides / Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez, 227
25 Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities: Challenges and Solutions / Kelly Merrill Jr., 234
26 Pedagogies of Resistance - Social Movements and the Construction of Communicative Knowledge in Brazil / Paola Sartoretto, 241
27 Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies about Media and Justice through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching / Andrea Gambino and Jeff Share, 248
28 Alternative Cultures of Resistance and Collective Organizing in the Platform Economy / Cheryll Ruth Soriano, 259
29 LGBT Activism, Social Media and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana / Godfried A. Asante, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, and Ama B. Appiah-Kubi, 268
30 Indigenous Environmental Media Activism in South Asia / Uttaran Dutta, 278
31 Indigenous Media Organizing / Mohan J. Dutta and Christine Elers, 287
SECTION E: CONCLUSION
32 The Future of Media & Social Justice: Resistances, Reckoning, and Reparative Justice / Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo, 299
1 Perspectives, Positionalities, and Paradigms in Media & Social Justice Scholarship / Omotayo O. Banjo and Srividya Ramasubramanian, 3
SECTION B: APPROACHES AND ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS
2 Political Economy of Communication in the Digital Platform Era / Dal Yong Jin, 13
3 The Limits of Diversity and Popular Anti-Racism: The Need for Reparative Justice in the Cultural Industries / Anamik Saha, 20
4 Critical Media Effects: A Framework for Bridging Critical Cultural Communication with Media Effects Research / Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo, 28
5 Black Audiences and Media Resistance / David Stamps, 44
6 "How Do You Shift That?": Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies / jas l. moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph, 52
7 Latine Media Studies: From Near Omission to Radical Intersectionality / Angharad N. Valdivia, 62
8 Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies / Keisuke Kimura and Shinsuke Eguchi, 70
9 Queer and Transgender Media Studies / Erique Zhang and Thomas J. Billard, 78
10 Digital Religion and the Negotiation of Gender/Sex Norms / Ruth Tsuria, 87
11 Critical Disability Media Studies / Katie Ellis and Jessica Keeley, 97
SECTION C: METHODS AND MEANING MAKING
12 Critical Discourse Analysis / Marissa Doshi, 107
13 Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice / Srividya Ramasubramanian, Shannon Burth, and Minnie Macmillian, 115
14 Justice Informatics, Justice for Us All: Liberation from Techno-Ideology / Jasmina Tacheva and Tanya Loughead, 124
15 Researching Closed Fields: What We Can Learn from Analyzing So-Called Constrained, Inaccessible and Invisible Media Contexts / Hanan Badr, 131
16 Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings: A Data Feminist Approach to Transnational Feminist Media Studies and Social Media Activism / Ololade M. Faniyi & Radhika Gajjala, 141
SECTION D: RESISTANCE AND REVISIONING
17 Mediated Socioeconomic Injustice: Representations of Poor and Working Class People in Mainstream Media / Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay, 153
18 Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema / Swarnavel Eswaran, 166
19 Media Representations, Incarceration, and Social Justice / Adam Key, 176
20 Heroes of the Border: Using Counternarratives to Break Border Stereotypes and Create Superhero Narratives / Anthony R. Ramirez, 186
21 Media Creation and Consumption as Activism among African Transnational and Diasporic communities / Omotayo O. Banjo and Tomide Oloruntobi, 193
22 Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok / Elisha Lim, Satveer Kaur-Gill, and Krittiya Kantachote, 205
23 Media & Mental Health Interventions among Migrants: Addressing the Disparities / Rukhsana Ahmed and Seulgi Park, 216
24 Health Media Activism: Latin American Organizing in Response to Feminicides / Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez, 227
25 Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities: Challenges and Solutions / Kelly Merrill Jr., 234
26 Pedagogies of Resistance - Social Movements and the Construction of Communicative Knowledge in Brazil / Paola Sartoretto, 241
27 Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies about Media and Justice through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching / Andrea Gambino and Jeff Share, 248
28 Alternative Cultures of Resistance and Collective Organizing in the Platform Economy / Cheryll Ruth Soriano, 259
29 LGBT Activism, Social Media and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana / Godfried A. Asante, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, and Ama B. Appiah-Kubi, 268
30 Indigenous Environmental Media Activism in South Asia / Uttaran Dutta, 278
31 Indigenous Media Organizing / Mohan J. Dutta and Christine Elers, 287
SECTION E: CONCLUSION
32 The Future of Media & Social Justice: Resistances, Reckoning, and Reparative Justice / Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo, 299
