The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice

This Handbook gathers over forty leading scholars and presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. The chapters explore intersecting identities, social structures, and power networks within media ownership, representation, selection, uses, effects, networks, and social transformation. Connecting critical media scholarship with intersectional feminism, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, Indigenous approaches, queer theory, diaspora studies, and environmental justice frameworks, the Handbook re-envisions the role of media and technology with an inclusive trauma-informed approach to scholarship that is essential for the future of this research. Cover Series The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Section I • Introduction 1. Perspectives, Positionalities, and Paradigms in Media and Social Justice Scholarship Section II • Approaches and Analytic Frameworks 2. Political Economy of Communication in the Digital Platform Era 3. The Limits of Diversity and Popular Anti-​Racism: The Need for Reparative Justice in the Cultural Industries 4. Critical Media Effects Framework: Bridging Critical Cultural Communication with Media Effects Through Power, Intersectionality, Context, and Agency 5. Black Audiences and Media Resistance 6. “How Do You Shift That?” Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies 7. Latine Media Studies: From Near Omission to Radical Intersectionality 8. Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies 9. Queer and Transgender Media Studies 10. Digital Religion and the Negotiation of Gender/​Sex Norms 11. Critical Disability Media Studies Section III • Methods and Meaning- Making 12. Critical Discourse Analysis 13. Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice 14. Justice Informatics, Justice for Us All: Liberation from Techno-​Ideology 15. Researching Closed Fields: What We Can Learn from Analyzing So-​Called Constrained, Inaccessible, and Invisible Media Contexts 16. Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings: A Data Feminist Approach to Transnational Feminist Media Studies and Social Media Activism Section IV • Resistance and Revisioning 17. Mediated Socioeconomic Injustice: Representations of Poor and Working-​Class People in Mainstream Media 18. Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema 19. Media Representations, Incarceration, and Social Justice 20. Heroes of the Border: Using Counternarratives to Break Border Stereotypes and Create Superhero Narratives 21. Media Creation and Consumption as Activism Among African Transnational and Diasporic Communities 22. Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok 23. Media and Mental Health Interventions Among Migrants: Addressing the Disparities 24. Health Media Activism: Latin American Organizing in Response to Feminicides 25. Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities: Challenges and Solutions 26. Pedagogies of Resistance: Social Movements and the Construction of Communicative Knowledge in Brazil 27. Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies About Media and Justice Through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching 28. Alternative Cultures of Resistance and Collective Organizing in the Platform Economy 29. LGBT Activism, Social Media, and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana 30. Indigenous Environmental Media Activism in South Asia 31. Indigenous Media Organizing Section V • Conclusion 32. The Future of Media and Social Justice: Resistances, Reckoning, and Reparative Justice Index