By Kristin Bezio Nick Yee, the mastermind behind the Daedalus Project, mixes pop culture and social psychology in The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and…
by Raizel Liebler Yasue Kuwahara’s The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context (2014) is an excellent entry in the ever increasing corpus of…
by Raizel Liebler One of the first book reviews I wrote for TLF all the way back in 2008 was about Mark James Russell’s earlier…
by Keidra Chaney S. Alexander Reed and Phillip Sandifer are cultural scholars and childhood friends who share an appreciation of the band They Might Be…
by Keidra Chaney Alice E. Marwick’s Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale University Press) is at once a cultural…
by Raizel Liebler One of the earliest papers on fandom Keidra and I ever presented (at MIT’s Media in Transition 5) was about the difficulties…
by Vivian Obarski When I grow up, I want to be Pippi Longstocking. I don’t know if I can pull off the fire-red braids that…
Kyung Hyun Kim & Youngmin Choe’s edited collection of academic essays, The Korean Popular Culture Reader is an important entry into popular culture and Asian…
danah boyd’s It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens is one of the most important books ever on online culture, teens, and the ways…
By Nicole Keating I had been ignoring the New 52 iteration of Harley Quinn. Not because I don’t like Harley. Au contraire, puddin’! Since I…