Allison Page
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Page |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Page |
| SIGNATURE | PAGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7188-8954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
America, This is Your Ride Along’
This article takes the Reelz show On Patrol: Live ( OPL ) as a case study for theorizing race, media technologies, police violence, and the discourse of transparency. I argue that OPL engages with two meanings of transparency that are in tension: (1) transparency as instruction and interpretation, wherein the viewer needs to be led by experts; (2) transparency as visual and translucent, especially when pertaining to race and racial violence. Both…
Status economies and frequent flier expertise
This article analyses an emergent category of pre-pandemic YouTube video devoted to documenting and assessing the experience of business/first class air travel. We understand these videos as texts enmeshed in a broader culture of diminished and fraught customer service, inextricable from the complex status economy that has emerged under neoliberal capitalism in general and with particular intensity in commercial aviation. In contrast to the incre…
Weaponizing neutrality
Over the past decade, U.S. police departments have incorporated media technologies that promise to make policing more efficient and “race-neutral,” including body and dash cameras, drones, and predictive analytics. Such tools are positioned as unbiased and therefore reliable instruments that will hold both the state and citizens accountable during police interactions. This neutrality occurs along axes of race and affect, and presumes these techno…
MeToo and the Politics of Collective Healing
Participants in the #MeToo movement on Twitter expressed emotions like rage, pain, and solidarity in their personal accounts of sexual violence. This article explores the digital circulation of these affects and considers how the outpouring of tweets about sexual harassment and abuse contribute to a feminist politics centered on collective healing. The particular emotions expressed in the #MeToo Twitter archive subvert the logics of quantificatio…
The prison-televisual complex
In 2016, the A&E cable network partnered with the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to incarcerate seven volunteers as undercover prisoners for two months. This article takes the reality television franchise 60 Days In as a case study for analyzing the convergence of prison and television, and the rise of what we call the prison-televisual complex in the United States, which denotes the imbrication of the prison system with the televi…
How many slaves work for you?” Race, new media, and neoliberal consumer activism
This article analyzes the website slaveryfootprint.org, which purports to measure consumers’ reliance on slave labor in the Global South by analyzing the users’ consumption habits. The site offers neoliberal consumer solutions to “solve” the problem of what it terms modern-day slavery. I argue that the characterization of slavery on slaveryfootprint.org (and the process of de-fetishizing this labor) attempts to shore up a distinction between “fre…
Chronic Youth
Within contemporary US media culture, the imperative to overcome—be it illness, poverty, or poor self-esteem—is ubiquitous. From the spate of reality television programs insisting on making over on
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
Advance Your Freedom
The surge of U.S. reality television shows focused on “making over” contestants has paralleled the decline of the welfare state, the eradication of Affirmative Action, and the rise of the prison-industrial complex. This article examines MTV’s From G’s to Gents to consider questions of neoliberal governmentality and race. By analyzing the show’s relationship to the prison system, enterprise culture, and heteronormativity, I argue that the show fun…
How many slaves work for you?” Race, new media, and neoliberal consumer activism
This article analyzes the website slaveryfootprint.org, which purports to measure consumers’ reliance on slave labor in the Global South by analyzing the users’ consumption habits. The site offers neoliberal consumer solutions to “solve” the problem of what it terms modern-day slavery. I argue that the characterization of slavery on slaveryfootprint.org (and the process of de-fetishizing this labor) attempts to shore up a distinction between “fre…
MeToo and the Politics of Collective Healing
Participants in the #MeToo movement on Twitter expressed emotions like rage, pain, and solidarity in their personal accounts of sexual violence. This article explores the digital circulation of these affects and considers how the outpouring of tweets about sexual harassment and abuse contribute to a feminist politics centered on collective healing. The particular emotions expressed in the #MeToo Twitter archive subvert the logics of quantificatio…
The prison-televisual complex
In 2016, the A&E cable network partnered with the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to incarcerate seven volunteers as undercover prisoners for two months. This article takes the reality television franchise 60 Days In as a case study for analyzing the convergence of prison and television, and the rise of what we call the prison-televisual complex in the United States, which denotes the imbrication of the prison system with the televi…
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
Weaponizing neutrality
Over the past decade, U.S. police departments have incorporated media technologies that promise to make policing more efficient and “race-neutral,” including body and dash cameras, drones, and predictive analytics. Such tools are positioned as unbiased and therefore reliable instruments that will hold both the state and citizens accountable during police interactions. This neutrality occurs along axes of race and affect, and presumes these techno…
Advance Your Freedom
The surge of U.S. reality television shows focused on “making over” contestants has paralleled the decline of the welfare state, the eradication of Affirmative Action, and the rise of the prison-industrial complex. This article examines MTV’s From G’s to Gents to consider questions of neoliberal governmentality and race. By analyzing the show’s relationship to the prison system, enterprise culture, and heteronormativity, I argue that the show fun…
Advance Your Freedom
The surge of U.S. reality television shows focused on “making over” contestants has paralleled the decline of the welfare state, the eradication of Affirmative Action, and the rise of the prison-industrial complex. This article examines MTV’s From G’s to Gents to consider questions of neoliberal governmentality and race. By analyzing the show’s relationship to the prison system, enterprise culture, and heteronormativity, I argue that the show fun…
How many slaves work for you?” Race, new media, and neoliberal consumer activism
This article analyzes the website slaveryfootprint.org, which purports to measure consumers’ reliance on slave labor in the Global South by analyzing the users’ consumption habits. The site offers neoliberal consumer solutions to “solve” the problem of what it terms modern-day slavery. I argue that the characterization of slavery on slaveryfootprint.org (and the process of de-fetishizing this labor) attempts to shore up a distinction between “fre…
Chronic Youth
Within contemporary US media culture, the imperative to overcome—be it illness, poverty, or poor self-esteem—is ubiquitous. From the spate of reality television programs insisting on making over on
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
MeToo and the Politics of Collective Healing
Participants in the #MeToo movement on Twitter expressed emotions like rage, pain, and solidarity in their personal accounts of sexual violence. This article explores the digital circulation of these affects and considers how the outpouring of tweets about sexual harassment and abuse contribute to a feminist politics centered on collective healing. The particular emotions expressed in the #MeToo Twitter archive subvert the logics of quantificatio…
The prison-televisual complex
In 2016, the A&E cable network partnered with the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to incarcerate seven volunteers as undercover prisoners for two months. This article takes the reality television franchise 60 Days In as a case study for analyzing the convergence of prison and television, and the rise of what we call the prison-televisual complex in the United States, which denotes the imbrication of the prison system with the televi…
Weaponizing neutrality
Over the past decade, U.S. police departments have incorporated media technologies that promise to make policing more efficient and “race-neutral,” including body and dash cameras, drones, and predictive analytics. Such tools are positioned as unbiased and therefore reliable instruments that will hold both the state and citizens accountable during police interactions. This neutrality occurs along axes of race and affect, and presumes these techno…
Status economies and frequent flier expertise
This article analyses an emergent category of pre-pandemic YouTube video devoted to documenting and assessing the experience of business/first class air travel. We understand these videos as texts enmeshed in a broader culture of diminished and fraught customer service, inextricable from the complex status economy that has emerged under neoliberal capitalism in general and with particular intensity in commercial aviation. In contrast to the incre…
America, This is Your Ride Along’
This article takes the Reelz show On Patrol: Live ( OPL ) as a case study for theorizing race, media technologies, police violence, and the discourse of transparency. I argue that OPL engages with two meanings of transparency that are in tension: (1) transparency as instruction and interpretation, wherein the viewer needs to be led by experts; (2) transparency as visual and translucent, especially when pertaining to race and racial violence. Both…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)