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WELCOME TO DIGITAL WAVES’ SPECIAL DIGITAL CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY SERIES
What we're tracking this election season.
Renaissance Mindset
As we approach the December 1 premiere of Beyoncé’s Renaissance concert tour film, a group of Pop Culture Collaborative staff/Beyoncé fans reflect on…
Fandom Formation Double Issue: Starting Anew in Beyoncé’s World; (Blue) Beetlemania Goes Missing
Part 2 of our pluralist fandom formation double issue.
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Tracy Van Slyke
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Lincoln Mondy
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Jeff Yang
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Evan Blaise Walsh
Video Game Audiences 101 and the Hollywood Dynamic
THE BIG QUESTION: Despite a glut of cisgender straight white men employed in the gaming industry, gaming fandoms continue to become more diverse in…
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Evan Blaise Walsh
How Can We Cultivate and Mobilize Powerful Video Game Communities?
Audiences for video games and the fans who livestream them are huge and growing. Hollywood has noticed, with high-profile adaptations. What will it take…
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Evan Blaise Walsh
Books Are Back, Baby!
Rather, books are more hyped than ever. Many point to TikTok, specifically the #BookTok community as the reason why. (Move over Oprah! Kidding!)
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Tracy Van Slyke
AI All The Time
Did you actually spend time this summer on the beach instead of reading obsessively about how AI is going to change culture as we know it? No worries…
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Jessica Clark
The Digital Waves We Surfed This Summer: AI, #Books, and The Kids Online Safety Act
It’s a link-a-palooza newsletter!
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Tracy Van Slyke
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Lincoln Mondy
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Jessica Clark
What can we glean from the Barbie moment?
The film’s massive marketing push has not only sapped the world’s supply of pink, but offered chances for online self-expression, activism, debate…and a…
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Jessica Clark
Hot Social Trends and Conversations: The Montgomery melee, Barbiemania, and Furby's return
We investigate why all eyes were on an Alabama brawl, and unpack strategies to harness the cresting nostalgia around popular toys.
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Lincoln Mondy
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Jessica Clark
Digital Safety: Fighting Toxic Forces While Holding Space for Many Identities
Dispatches on how toxic behaviors surrounding digital platforms and influencers hinder our pluralist future, and emerging questions on how the pop…
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Lincoln Mondy
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Tracy Van Slyke
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Jessica Clark
A Yellowstone Fan-in-Hiding Reclaims his Cowboy Hat
A Vulture critique positioning Yellowstone as a faux red-state show pushed me—a Yellowstone fan-in-hiding—into the light.
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Lincoln Mondy
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