Dustin Kidd
Biographic Data
| ID | 134139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dustin Kidd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dustin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kidd |
| SIGNATURE | KIDD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3813-2549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
El concepto de reforma mediática y sus aportes a los procesos de justicia ecosocial y comunicativa
En el contexto actual de crisis planetaria y desigualdad, la comunicación y sus medios son espacios estratégicos desde los que trabajar por sociedades más justas, representativas y social y ecológicamente responsables. De ahí la importancia de generar debates y reflexiones sobre todos aquellos procesos, plataformas, redes y prácticas mediáticas o discursivas que ayudan a mejorar la redistribución de los recursos y el reconocimiento cultural de la…
Feminist media makers in the San Francisco Bay area
This article documents two long-standing media projects in the San Francisco Bay area. ‘Voices of the Native Nations’, a community radio program, and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), training program and film festival, both were based in feminist and decolonial social movements and arose during key media historic moments. I argue that media-in-transition goes beyond a simple consideration of technological changes, and instea…
Building the media-active dojo in a post-secondary classroom in San Francisco
This article responds to questions posed by the ‘Community Communication and Alternative Media’ section for the 2023 Conference of International Association for Media and Communication Research . Reflecting on my practice and work with students in a university in the San Francisco Bay area, I propose that we update our pedagogical approach in light of the rise of digital platform capitalism and the changing global communications. Using a research…
Beyond myopia in communications and the sociology of media
This special issue of Information, Communication, and Society (ICS) is edited by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section of the American Sociological Association and includes papers that were first presented at either the 2021 or 2022 ASA meetings or Media Sociology Symposia. For this special issue, an innovative editorial approach was taken that brought the editing process into a graduate classroom. That…
Information technology & media sociology in a (still) pandemic world
The current period of disruptive social change is inextricably bound up with new means and modes of communication, information, and media streams. The Communication, Information Technologies & Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS) locates these factors at the center of our collective interests, investigating them through a plethora of methods, theories, and empirical cases. Each year, CITAMS runs a special issu…
Indymedia and Standing Rock: Media-historic moments
This article reviews the legacy of the global Indymedia Center (IMC), a news and information network of 175 autonomous media centres that operated in every world region autonomously of the dominant corporate and public service communications and information systems. Emerging first during protests against the neo-liberal practices of the World Trade Organization, the IMC represented a media-historic moment, one of the first times that social movem…
North American Extra-Activism and Indigenous Communications Practices
There has been a wealth of research in Latin America on the most recent global intensification of extractivism, or the capitalist exploitation of natural resources. Some of this research has examined the resistance among front-line Indigenous and rural communities, and allied environmental groups, who are challenging the development of mega-scale mining, oil, gas, monoagricultural, and related infrastructural projects. Researchers have noted many…
Standing rock and the Indigenous commons
A new cycle of communications commons has become part of the contemporary repertoire of Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization of the Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps the best-known example of a continent-wide cycle of resistance in which Indigenous communities have employed a combination of collectively governed land-based encampments and sophisticated trans-media assemblages to challenge the further enclosure of their territo…
Re-thinking the communication commons
Sex Cultures
“Think about who you’ve had sex with,” Amin Ghaziani invites his readers in his recent book Sex Cultures (Polity 2017). Although this invitation appears in the fourth chapter of a four-chapter book, plus introduction and conclusion, in many ways it guides the reader throughout the book as Ghaziani delivers to his audience the promise of sociology as a tool for better understanding sexuality. Sex Cultures explains the diversity of sexuality by foc…
Public Culture in America: A Review of Cultural Policy Debates
Extra-activism: Counter-mapping and data justice
Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects of European imperialist and then capitalist extraction of natural resources. Geo-spatial instruments have been used since the fifteenth century to highlight potential sites of mineral, oil, and gas extraction, and inscribe European economic, cultural and political control across indigenous territories. …
The Art of Defiance: Graffiti, Politics, and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia
Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society
Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them? Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of iden…
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Popular Culture
Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. It includes media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions, among other things. Popular culture is usually associated with either mass culture or folk culture, and differentiated from high culture and various institutional cultures (political culture, educational culture, legal cu…
Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society
1. The Matrix is Everywhere: An Introduction to the Sociology of Popular Culture 2. The Revolution Will Not be Available on iTunes: Racial Perspectives 3. Movin' on Up: Class Perspectives 4. Men are from Mars, Women are from Wisteria Lane: Gender Perspectives 5. Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Sexuality Perspectives 6. Handi-Capable: Disability Perspectives 7. Translating Harry Potter: International Perspectives 8. Freaks in the Matrix…
Social Media and Social Movements
What role does social media play in social movements and political unrest? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google have all been cited as important components in social revolutions, including those in Tunisia, Egypt, Iceland, Spain, and the global Occupy movement. This essay explores social science claims about the relationship between social networking and social movements. It examines research done on the relationship between social networking…
Extra-Activism”
These are not resources.This is a life force, a life force that we have relationships to.We don't own it.We don't own the rivers.We don't own the salmon.We have relationships with these worldsand responsibilities.Togisty
The Production of White Male Heterosexuality
The Production of White Male Heterosexuality Dustin Kidd (bio) Jane Ward’s Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men, New York: NYU Press, 2015 Why do straight white men find so many opportunities to have sex with each other? In Jane Ward’s analysis, the real question is, “Why don’t they do it more?” Ward’s fundamental assertion in Not Gay is that sex between straight white men is a productive act, and specifically that it constitutes the productio…
Art as Propaganda: Bringing Du Bois into the Sociology of Art
We examine WEB Du Bois's writings about the arts in the NAACP journal The Crisis from 1910–1934 in order to construct a Du Boisian social theory of the arts. The key elements of this theoretical framework are: artists, money, freedom, organization, truth, beauty, and propaganda. The most surprising element is propaganda, which for Du Bois meant that art needs to address racial politics. There is a strong sense in Du Bois's writings that art can a…
Much more than a little byte: Citizens and broadband
This article compares the historical role of North American grassroots groups in setting up telephone communications at the turn of the 20th century with contemporary campaigns of grassroots activists to establish broadband communications, in one US metropolitan region, the San Francisco Bay. The narrative analyses the local and national policy environment, the corporate commercial context and the activist constituencies. It focuses on mapping th…
Neither silent nor invisible: Anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area – Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance – are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights of low-income and homeless people, and for policies to better redistribute economic and communications resources. In the wake of media closures in the local public sphere, and major restructuring of social welf…
Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture
Art for Politics
Essay| August 01 2006 Art for Politics: Reflections on the Whitney Biennial Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd is an assistant professor of sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2006) 34 (1-2): 6–8. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2006.34.1-2.6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Shar…
Social Media and Social Movements
What role does social media play in social movements and political unrest? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google have all been cited as important components in social revolutions, including those in Tunisia, Egypt, Iceland, Spain, and the global Occupy movement. This essay explores social science claims about the relationship between social networking and social movements. It examines research done on the relationship between social networking…
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
The value of alternative media
In October 1998, the Pacific Centre for Alternative Journalists convened its founding conference in Vancouver. The 60 participants represented a spectrum of media activists—from community radio, the student, feminist and Central American solidarity press, Latin American, labor and community television alliances, community‐based electronic nets, assorted "culture jammers"—as well as social justice activists from the anti‐poverty, student, aborigin…
Standing rock and the Indigenous commons
A new cycle of communications commons has become part of the contemporary repertoire of Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization of the Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps the best-known example of a continent-wide cycle of resistance in which Indigenous communities have employed a combination of collectively governed land-based encampments and sophisticated trans-media assemblages to challenge the further enclosure of their territo…
Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture
Re-thinking the communication commons
Extra-Activism”
These are not resources.This is a life force, a life force that we have relationships to.We don't own it.We don't own the rivers.We don't own the salmon.We have relationships with these worldsand responsibilities.Togisty
Art as Propaganda: Bringing Du Bois into the Sociology of Art
We examine WEB Du Bois's writings about the arts in the NAACP journal The Crisis from 1910–1934 in order to construct a Du Boisian social theory of the arts. The key elements of this theoretical framework are: artists, money, freedom, organization, truth, beauty, and propaganda. The most surprising element is propaganda, which for Du Bois meant that art needs to address racial politics. There is a strong sense in Du Bois's writings that art can a…
Much more than a little byte: Citizens and broadband
This article compares the historical role of North American grassroots groups in setting up telephone communications at the turn of the 20th century with contemporary campaigns of grassroots activists to establish broadband communications, in one US metropolitan region, the San Francisco Bay. The narrative analyses the local and national policy environment, the corporate commercial context and the activist constituencies. It focuses on mapping th…
The Art of Defiance: Graffiti, Politics, and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia
Baffin Island Expedition, 1953: A Preliminary Field Report
Contains description and brief summaries of results of the second Baffin Island Expedition of the Arctic Institute of North America, May-Sept. 1953. The 13-man party carried out a program in the Penny Highland region of Cumberland Peninsula, centering on Pangnirtung Pass. Glaciological work on the Penny Icecap and Highway Glacier included studies of glacier physics, seismic work, and meteorological observations on bedrock geology and structure ar…
The value of alternative media
In October 1998, the Pacific Centre for Alternative Journalists convened its founding conference in Vancouver. The 60 participants represented a spectrum of media activists—from community radio, the student, feminist and Central American solidarity press, Latin American, labor and community television alliances, community‐based electronic nets, assorted "culture jammers"—as well as social justice activists from the anti‐poverty, student, aborigin…
Mapplethorpe and the New Obscenity
Essay| April 01 2003 Mapplethorpe and the New Obscenity Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia and a dissertation fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His dissertation is titled “Democracy, Culture and the NEA Controversies,” and explores the debates about public funding for the arts from the perspective of democratic theory. Search for other wor…
Confronting Consolidation
Essay| December 01 2005 Confronting Consolidation 2005 NAMAC Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 28 - October 2, 2005 Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd is an assistant professor of sociology at Temple University. He is currently completing a book titled Culture Changes: At the Intersection of Art and Politics. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2005) 33 (3): 10–11. https://doi.org…
Art for Politics
Essay| August 01 2006 Art for Politics: Reflections on the Whitney Biennial Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd Dustin Kidd is an assistant professor of sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2006) 34 (1-2): 6–8. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2006.34.1-2.6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Shar…
Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture
Much more than a little byte: Citizens and broadband
This article compares the historical role of North American grassroots groups in setting up telephone communications at the turn of the 20th century with contemporary campaigns of grassroots activists to establish broadband communications, in one US metropolitan region, the San Francisco Bay. The narrative analyses the local and national policy environment, the corporate commercial context and the activist constituencies. It focuses on mapping th…
Neither silent nor invisible: Anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area – Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance – are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights of low-income and homeless people, and for policies to better redistribute economic and communications resources. In the wake of media closures in the local public sphere, and major restructuring of social welf…
Art as Propaganda: Bringing Du Bois into the Sociology of Art
We examine WEB Du Bois's writings about the arts in the NAACP journal The Crisis from 1910–1934 in order to construct a Du Boisian social theory of the arts. The key elements of this theoretical framework are: artists, money, freedom, organization, truth, beauty, and propaganda. The most surprising element is propaganda, which for Du Bois meant that art needs to address racial politics. There is a strong sense in Du Bois's writings that art can a…
Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society
1. The Matrix is Everywhere: An Introduction to the Sociology of Popular Culture 2. The Revolution Will Not be Available on iTunes: Racial Perspectives 3. Movin' on Up: Class Perspectives 4. Men are from Mars, Women are from Wisteria Lane: Gender Perspectives 5. Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Sexuality Perspectives 6. Handi-Capable: Disability Perspectives 7. Translating Harry Potter: International Perspectives 8. Freaks in the Matrix…
Social Media and Social Movements
What role does social media play in social movements and political unrest? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google have all been cited as important components in social revolutions, including those in Tunisia, Egypt, Iceland, Spain, and the global Occupy movement. This essay explores social science claims about the relationship between social networking and social movements. It examines research done on the relationship between social networking…
Extra-Activism”
These are not resources.This is a life force, a life force that we have relationships to.We don't own it.We don't own the rivers.We don't own the salmon.We have relationships with these worldsand responsibilities.Togisty
The Production of White Male Heterosexuality
The Production of White Male Heterosexuality Dustin Kidd (bio) Jane Ward’s Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men, New York: NYU Press, 2015 Why do straight white men find so many opportunities to have sex with each other? In Jane Ward’s analysis, the real question is, “Why don’t they do it more?” Ward’s fundamental assertion in Not Gay is that sex between straight white men is a productive act, and specifically that it constitutes the productio…
Popular Culture
Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. It includes media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions, among other things. Popular culture is usually associated with either mass culture or folk culture, and differentiated from high culture and various institutional cultures (political culture, educational culture, legal cu…
Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society
Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them? Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of iden…
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Public Culture in America: A Review of Cultural Policy Debates
Extra-activism: Counter-mapping and data justice
Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects of European imperialist and then capitalist extraction of natural resources. Geo-spatial instruments have been used since the fifteenth century to highlight potential sites of mineral, oil, and gas extraction, and inscribe European economic, cultural and political control across indigenous territories. …
The Art of Defiance: Graffiti, Politics, and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia
North American Extra-Activism and Indigenous Communications Practices
There has been a wealth of research in Latin America on the most recent global intensification of extractivism, or the capitalist exploitation of natural resources. Some of this research has examined the resistance among front-line Indigenous and rural communities, and allied environmental groups, who are challenging the development of mega-scale mining, oil, gas, monoagricultural, and related infrastructural projects. Researchers have noted many…
Standing rock and the Indigenous commons
A new cycle of communications commons has become part of the contemporary repertoire of Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization of the Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps the best-known example of a continent-wide cycle of resistance in which Indigenous communities have employed a combination of collectively governed land-based encampments and sophisticated trans-media assemblages to challenge the further enclosure of their territo…
Re-thinking the communication commons
Sex Cultures
“Think about who you’ve had sex with,” Amin Ghaziani invites his readers in his recent book Sex Cultures (Polity 2017). Although this invitation appears in the fourth chapter of a four-chapter book, plus introduction and conclusion, in many ways it guides the reader throughout the book as Ghaziani delivers to his audience the promise of sociology as a tool for better understanding sexuality. Sex Cultures explains the diversity of sexuality by foc…
Indymedia and Standing Rock: Media-historic moments
This article reviews the legacy of the global Indymedia Center (IMC), a news and information network of 175 autonomous media centres that operated in every world region autonomously of the dominant corporate and public service communications and information systems. Emerging first during protests against the neo-liberal practices of the World Trade Organization, the IMC represented a media-historic moment, one of the first times that social movem…
Information technology & media sociology in a (still) pandemic world
The current period of disruptive social change is inextricably bound up with new means and modes of communication, information, and media streams. The Communication, Information Technologies & Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS) locates these factors at the center of our collective interests, investigating them through a plethora of methods, theories, and empirical cases. Each year, CITAMS runs a special issu…
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