Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin
Biographic Data
| ID | 292101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chelsea |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson-Salahuddin |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON-SALAHUDDIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7006-3259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Authentic listening as relational praxis
This essay advances the concept of authentic listening as a multidimensional and multilevel process of relational, political, and ethical labor. Rather than conceptualizing authenticity as an individual trait or expressive ideal, as is often the case in communication research, we reframe it as a co-constructed achievement that emerges through listening, and is therefore shaped by power, positionality, and the conditions of reception. Drawing on f…
Teachable moments
This paper mobilizes Turner’s concept of ‘social drama’ – dramatic social events marked by conflict, antagonism, and competition through which communities articulate social norms – to examine how users engage in drama to negotiate the intersecting race, gender, and sexual power dynamics on TikTok. Through an analysis of two TikTok social dramas, I demonstrate how the technological affordances of the platform shape how users respond to drama and a…
Repairing the harm
Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that can silence or further harm marginalized users. Recently, scholars have offered both restorative and transformative justice frameworks as alternative approaches to platform governance to mitigate harms caused to marginalized users. As a complement to these rec…
Trust Signals
Journalism scholars have increasingly become concerned with how our changing media environment has shifted traditional understandings of how news outlets create trust with audiences. While many scholars have focused on broad avenues of building trust with audiences through transparency, community engagement, and funding, arguably less attention has been paid to how audience members’ social positionality—determined by factors such as race, class, …
Rage against the streaming studio system
Every global media conglomerate in the United States has a streaming video platform. Unlike their streaming competitors from Silicon Valley, the early years of Hollywood streaming push emerges from a Studio System. The emergent Streaming Studio System is not as integrated as the Classic Hollywood Studio System, but it shares some important similarities. Most important is the seamless integration of production, distribution, and exhibition. The st…
News for (Me and) You
The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing and finding news and information, especially for younger people. Most scholarly research examining news sharing on TikTok has focused on practices by professional journalists and news organizations; however, these are only a small percentage of the actors who make up the news information sharing ecosystem on the platform. In particular, citizen journalists pl…
Pose”
Over the past year, many young creators who use the Chinese-owned social networking platform TikTok have claimed that its underlying algorithm surveils and suppresses the reach of content by Black, brown, fat, queer, and disabled creators. However, despite these algorithmic biases, these marginalized creators have continued to find new and ingenious ways to not only create but also successfully share anti-racist, anti-misogynistic, LGBTQIA+suppor…
Posting Back
Black women have historically used unconventional, everyday spaces as sites of Black feminist intellectual production. Today, one of the most common spaces in which Black women produce intellectual thought is social media. However, very little research has broadly examined the dynamics of these online communities for Black feminist theorizing beyond individual hashtag conversation. In this study, I conducted 21 semi-structured, in-depth interview…
Tweeting Back
The use of social media by Black women and femmes to talk about topics from a Black feminist perspective has been explored within the larger context of studies on Black Twitter and content analysis of circulated Tweets online. However, studies have yet to empirically study Black feminist social media communities' nuanced dynamics by directly speaking to those involved across a range of networked conversations. To fill this gap, this study conduct…
Opening the gates
Over the past decade, an emerging number of blogs, podcasts, websites, and social media channels report on news from an intersectional perspective, actively considering the intersecting impact of raced, gendered, sexed, and classed systems of oppression. However, what it practically means to produce intersection work is still ill-defined. Through semi-structured interviews with 13 intersectional news creators, this study aims to define the contou…
Platforming Intersectionality
How do historically marginalized narratives spread on social media platforms? Developing research in collaboration with intersectional artists and community, or what we call 'platforming intersectionality,' can reveal the promise and limitations of social media for bridging disparate, segregated communities, or 'networked solidarity.' Using case studies of indie TV series about historically marginalized communities, we show that intersectionality…
Opening the gates
Over the past decade, an emerging number of blogs, podcasts, websites, and social media channels report on news from an intersectional perspective, actively considering the intersecting impact of raced, gendered, sexed, and classed systems of oppression. However, what it practically means to produce intersection work is still ill-defined. Through semi-structured interviews with 13 intersectional news creators, this study aims to define the contou…
Pose”
Over the past year, many young creators who use the Chinese-owned social networking platform TikTok have claimed that its underlying algorithm surveils and suppresses the reach of content by Black, brown, fat, queer, and disabled creators. However, despite these algorithmic biases, these marginalized creators have continued to find new and ingenious ways to not only create but also successfully share anti-racist, anti-misogynistic, LGBTQIA+suppor…
Posting Back
Black women have historically used unconventional, everyday spaces as sites of Black feminist intellectual production. Today, one of the most common spaces in which Black women produce intellectual thought is social media. However, very little research has broadly examined the dynamics of these online communities for Black feminist theorizing beyond individual hashtag conversation. In this study, I conducted 21 semi-structured, in-depth interview…
Platforming Intersectionality
How do historically marginalized narratives spread on social media platforms? Developing research in collaboration with intersectional artists and community, or what we call 'platforming intersectionality,' can reveal the promise and limitations of social media for bridging disparate, segregated communities, or 'networked solidarity.' Using case studies of indie TV series about historically marginalized communities, we show that intersectionality…
News for (Me and) You
The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing and finding news and information, especially for younger people. Most scholarly research examining news sharing on TikTok has focused on practices by professional journalists and news organizations; however, these are only a small percentage of the actors who make up the news information sharing ecosystem on the platform. In particular, citizen journalists pl…
Platforming Intersectionality
How do historically marginalized narratives spread on social media platforms? Developing research in collaboration with intersectional artists and community, or what we call 'platforming intersectionality,' can reveal the promise and limitations of social media for bridging disparate, segregated communities, or 'networked solidarity.' Using case studies of indie TV series about historically marginalized communities, we show that intersectionality…
Tweeting Back
The use of social media by Black women and femmes to talk about topics from a Black feminist perspective has been explored within the larger context of studies on Black Twitter and content analysis of circulated Tweets online. However, studies have yet to empirically study Black feminist social media communities' nuanced dynamics by directly speaking to those involved across a range of networked conversations. To fill this gap, this study conduct…
Opening the gates
Over the past decade, an emerging number of blogs, podcasts, websites, and social media channels report on news from an intersectional perspective, actively considering the intersecting impact of raced, gendered, sexed, and classed systems of oppression. However, what it practically means to produce intersection work is still ill-defined. Through semi-structured interviews with 13 intersectional news creators, this study aims to define the contou…
Pose”
Over the past year, many young creators who use the Chinese-owned social networking platform TikTok have claimed that its underlying algorithm surveils and suppresses the reach of content by Black, brown, fat, queer, and disabled creators. However, despite these algorithmic biases, these marginalized creators have continued to find new and ingenious ways to not only create but also successfully share anti-racist, anti-misogynistic, LGBTQIA+suppor…
Posting Back
Black women have historically used unconventional, everyday spaces as sites of Black feminist intellectual production. Today, one of the most common spaces in which Black women produce intellectual thought is social media. However, very little research has broadly examined the dynamics of these online communities for Black feminist theorizing beyond individual hashtag conversation. In this study, I conducted 21 semi-structured, in-depth interview…
Trust Signals
Journalism scholars have increasingly become concerned with how our changing media environment has shifted traditional understandings of how news outlets create trust with audiences. While many scholars have focused on broad avenues of building trust with audiences through transparency, community engagement, and funding, arguably less attention has been paid to how audience members’ social positionality—determined by factors such as race, class, …
Rage against the streaming studio system
Every global media conglomerate in the United States has a streaming video platform. Unlike their streaming competitors from Silicon Valley, the early years of Hollywood streaming push emerges from a Studio System. The emergent Streaming Studio System is not as integrated as the Classic Hollywood Studio System, but it shares some important similarities. Most important is the seamless integration of production, distribution, and exhibition. The st…
News for (Me and) You
The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing and finding news and information, especially for younger people. Most scholarly research examining news sharing on TikTok has focused on practices by professional journalists and news organizations; however, these are only a small percentage of the actors who make up the news information sharing ecosystem on the platform. In particular, citizen journalists pl…
Repairing the harm
Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that can silence or further harm marginalized users. Recently, scholars have offered both restorative and transformative justice frameworks as alternative approaches to platform governance to mitigate harms caused to marginalized users. As a complement to these rec…
Teachable moments
This paper mobilizes Turner’s concept of ‘social drama’ – dramatic social events marked by conflict, antagonism, and competition through which communities articulate social norms – to examine how users engage in drama to negotiate the intersecting race, gender, and sexual power dynamics on TikTok. Through an analysis of two TikTok social dramas, I demonstrate how the technological affordances of the platform shape how users respond to drama and a…
Authentic listening as relational praxis
This essay advances the concept of authentic listening as a multidimensional and multilevel process of relational, political, and ethical labor. Rather than conceptualizing authenticity as an individual trait or expressive ideal, as is often the case in communication research, we reframe it as a co-constructed achievement that emerges through listening, and is therefore shaped by power, positionality, and the conditions of reception. Drawing on f…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works)