Amber Davisson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber Davisson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber |
| FAMILY NAME | Davisson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVISSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keene State College |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8239-7781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Difficult to Just Exist
The 2018 passing of FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) set new limits on the free speech protection of Section 230 of the 1996 Communication Decency Act. In the aftermath, many social media sites shut down forums used by sex workers, and on some sites sex workers were systematically deplatformed or shadow banned. Social media platforms are critical spaces for sex work…
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle
In this article, we look at how medium and genre shaped the Netflix adaptation of the first two Bridgerton novels and mediated the depictions of sex and desire to fit medium-specific expectations surrounding sexual content made for women. The showrunners for Netflix’s Bridgerton (2020–present) articulated a desire to depict sex from a female perspective, and with a ‘female gaze’, but the series is also instrumental in defining that perspective in…
Fandom and politics
Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fandom and Politics," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 32 (March 15, 2020)
Poaching Politics
Theorizing Digital Rhetoric
Mapping the Cold War
Book Review| December 01 2016 Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. By Timothy Barney. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015; pp. Xiii + 322. $29.95 paper. Amber Davisson Amber Davisson Keene State College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4…
Mashing up, remixing, and contesting the popular memory of Hillary Clinton
This essay looks at the viral video "Rebel Girl," released in 2015, which was produced by fans of Hillary Clinton. Following the trajectory of the video, one can see the potential for fan mashups to make arguments that subvert dominant narratives of public memory and, conversely, the way the way mainstream media moves to subsume outsider voices
Google and the culture of search
Mashing up, remixing, and contesting the popular memory of Hillary Clinton
This essay looks at the viral video "Rebel Girl," released in 2015, which was produced by fans of Hillary Clinton. Following the trajectory of the video, one can see the potential for fan mashups to make arguments that subvert dominant narratives of public memory and, conversely, the way the way mainstream media moves to subsume outsider voices
Google and the culture of search
Google and the culture of search
Mapping the Cold War
Book Review| December 01 2016 Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. By Timothy Barney. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015; pp. Xiii + 322. $29.95 paper. Amber Davisson Amber Davisson Keene State College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4…
Mashing up, remixing, and contesting the popular memory of Hillary Clinton
This essay looks at the viral video "Rebel Girl," released in 2015, which was produced by fans of Hillary Clinton. Following the trajectory of the video, one can see the potential for fan mashups to make arguments that subvert dominant narratives of public memory and, conversely, the way the way mainstream media moves to subsume outsider voices
Theorizing Digital Rhetoric
Poaching Politics
Fandom and politics
Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fandom and Politics," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 32 (March 15, 2020)
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle
In this article, we look at how medium and genre shaped the Netflix adaptation of the first two Bridgerton novels and mediated the depictions of sex and desire to fit medium-specific expectations surrounding sexual content made for women. The showrunners for Netflix’s Bridgerton (2020–present) articulated a desire to depict sex from a female perspective, and with a ‘female gaze’, but the series is also instrumental in defining that perspective in…
Difficult to Just Exist
The 2018 passing of FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) set new limits on the free speech protection of Section 230 of the 1996 Communication Decency Act. In the aftermath, many social media sites shut down forums used by sex workers, and on some sites sex workers were systematically deplatformed or shadow banned. Social media platforms are critical spaces for sex work…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)