Joel Penney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4617065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Penney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Penney |
| SIGNATURE | PENNEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7125-7060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From conspiracy to normalcy
In March of 2022, The Walt Disney Company voiced opposition to Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” (“Don’t Say Gay”) in support of LGBTQ+ stakeholders within the company and the public. This research studied a dataset of 68,481 tweets where the company’s stance was constructed as “grooming” children, that is, manipulating children for sexual abuse. Tweets were collected from March 13, 2022 to May 16, 2022 representing a 2-month period from D…
Entertainment journalism as a resource for public connection
Entertainment journalism has long been a marginal object of academic inquiry due to its reputation as a trivial distraction from public affairs journalism, yet this view has since been challenged by scholars who emphasize its substantive role in political discourse. Although previous research has disputed the idea that entertainment news helps audiences forge connections with public issues, the present study renews this line of inquiry at a time …
Pop Culture, Politics, and the News
From controversies over Hollywood’s on-screen portrayals and behind-the-scenes diversity to the latest outrage over a celebrity’s public statements or private behavior, the world of pop culture now serves as the basis for political news and commentary across a wide range of outlets and from both left and right perspectives. Drawing on dozens of interviews with entertainment journalists who produce politically minded coverage as well as testimonia…
It’s So Hard Not to be Funny in This Situation’
In light of the promise of humorous political memes as popular routes to citizen empowerment as well as concerns over their potential dangers, it is necessary to examine how everyday citizens make sense of their role in political expression and how they engage with them—or not—in their everyday social media activities. This focus group study explores these questions by focusing on the digital practices of U.S. young adults. The findings suggest a…
It’s my duty to be like “this is wrong”’
This study used focus groups to explore emergent patterns of youth political social media practices in the Trump era. The participants (U.S. undergraduates aged 18 to 26) suggested that Trump’s election was a transformative moment in their lives and that they had shifted their approaches to political social media in response. Many articulated an increased sense of duty and responsibility to use social media to counter perceived problems—such as T…
Social Media and Citizen Participation in “Official” and “Unofficial” Electoral Promotion
Drawing on interviews with leaders of the effort to promote the 2016 Bernie Sanders U.S. presidential candidacy on social media, this study contrasts the structure and content of various organizational networks to map the hybrid ecosystem of the contemporary digital campaign. While the “official” Sanders organization built applications to transform supporters into a tightly controlled distribution network for its social media messaging, this was …
Social Media and Symbolic Action
This study investigates symbolic action on popular social media platforms by empirically exploring the subjective experiences and motivations of participants in an exemplary campaign. Previous debates regarding the relationship between symbolic action and more traditional forms of political participation suggest a binary between up-the-ladder "civic culture" engagement and down-the-ladder "slacktivism." Interviews with participants in the Faceboo…
Eminently Visible
Beginning with coded statements of identity in the early days of the gay rights struggle and moving on to more upfront public declarations of visibility, T-shirts have offered a way for gays and lesbians and their allies to quite literally announce their presence on the political stage for the purposes of both enhancing solidarity and advancing public rhetoric. By visibly marking the bodies of wearers and publicly identifying their sexual identit…
(Re)Tweeting in the service of protest
Based on 17 in-depth interviews with people involved in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, we present a typology of how Twitter is used in the service of protest that draws attention to its utilization in conjunction with face-to-face actions. The OWS case study demonstrates how the rapid digital circulation of texts allows protestors to quickly build a geographically dispersed, networked counterpublic that can articulate a critique of power …
We Don't Wear Tight Clothes”
This article examines the tension within contemporary hip hop between the rising popularity of queer-inflected style within the genre and its corresponding backlash, fueled by those who continue to conflate hip hop with a hyper-masculine black identity. The author begins by exploring both the aesthetic and the economic motivations for hip hop's recent embrace of queer-influenced music and dress styles. He then analyzes two recent media controvers…
Slaves to Fashion
Monica L. Miller. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Duke UP, 2009. $19.15 (paperback) In Slaves to Fashion, Monica L. Miller presents a wide-ranging cul
(Re)Tweeting in the service of protest
Based on 17 in-depth interviews with people involved in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, we present a typology of how Twitter is used in the service of protest that draws attention to its utilization in conjunction with face-to-face actions. The OWS case study demonstrates how the rapid digital circulation of texts allows protestors to quickly build a geographically dispersed, networked counterpublic that can articulate a critique of power …
It’s So Hard Not to be Funny in This Situation’
In light of the promise of humorous political memes as popular routes to citizen empowerment as well as concerns over their potential dangers, it is necessary to examine how everyday citizens make sense of their role in political expression and how they engage with them—or not—in their everyday social media activities. This focus group study explores these questions by focusing on the digital practices of U.S. young adults. The findings suggest a…
Social Media and Symbolic Action
This study investigates symbolic action on popular social media platforms by empirically exploring the subjective experiences and motivations of participants in an exemplary campaign. Previous debates regarding the relationship between symbolic action and more traditional forms of political participation suggest a binary between up-the-ladder "civic culture" engagement and down-the-ladder "slacktivism." Interviews with participants in the Faceboo…
We Don't Wear Tight Clothes”
This article examines the tension within contemporary hip hop between the rising popularity of queer-inflected style within the genre and its corresponding backlash, fueled by those who continue to conflate hip hop with a hyper-masculine black identity. The author begins by exploring both the aesthetic and the economic motivations for hip hop's recent embrace of queer-influenced music and dress styles. He then analyzes two recent media controvers…
Pop Culture, Politics, and the News
From controversies over Hollywood’s on-screen portrayals and behind-the-scenes diversity to the latest outrage over a celebrity’s public statements or private behavior, the world of pop culture now serves as the basis for political news and commentary across a wide range of outlets and from both left and right perspectives. Drawing on dozens of interviews with entertainment journalists who produce politically minded coverage as well as testimonia…
From conspiracy to normalcy
In March of 2022, The Walt Disney Company voiced opposition to Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” (“Don’t Say Gay”) in support of LGBTQ+ stakeholders within the company and the public. This research studied a dataset of 68,481 tweets where the company’s stance was constructed as “grooming” children, that is, manipulating children for sexual abuse. Tweets were collected from March 13, 2022 to May 16, 2022 representing a 2-month period from D…
It’s my duty to be like “this is wrong”’
This study used focus groups to explore emergent patterns of youth political social media practices in the Trump era. The participants (U.S. undergraduates aged 18 to 26) suggested that Trump’s election was a transformative moment in their lives and that they had shifted their approaches to political social media in response. Many articulated an increased sense of duty and responsibility to use social media to counter perceived problems—such as T…
Eminently Visible
Beginning with coded statements of identity in the early days of the gay rights struggle and moving on to more upfront public declarations of visibility, T-shirts have offered a way for gays and lesbians and their allies to quite literally announce their presence on the political stage for the purposes of both enhancing solidarity and advancing public rhetoric. By visibly marking the bodies of wearers and publicly identifying their sexual identit…
Slaves to Fashion
Monica L. Miller. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Duke UP, 2009. $19.15 (paperback) In Slaves to Fashion, Monica L. Miller presents a wide-ranging cul
Slaves to Fashion
Monica L. Miller. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Duke UP, 2009. $19.15 (paperback) In Slaves to Fashion, Monica L. Miller presents a wide-ranging cul
We Don't Wear Tight Clothes”
This article examines the tension within contemporary hip hop between the rising popularity of queer-inflected style within the genre and its corresponding backlash, fueled by those who continue to conflate hip hop with a hyper-masculine black identity. The author begins by exploring both the aesthetic and the economic motivations for hip hop's recent embrace of queer-influenced music and dress styles. He then analyzes two recent media controvers…
Eminently Visible
Beginning with coded statements of identity in the early days of the gay rights struggle and moving on to more upfront public declarations of visibility, T-shirts have offered a way for gays and lesbians and their allies to quite literally announce their presence on the political stage for the purposes of both enhancing solidarity and advancing public rhetoric. By visibly marking the bodies of wearers and publicly identifying their sexual identit…
(Re)Tweeting in the service of protest
Based on 17 in-depth interviews with people involved in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, we present a typology of how Twitter is used in the service of protest that draws attention to its utilization in conjunction with face-to-face actions. The OWS case study demonstrates how the rapid digital circulation of texts allows protestors to quickly build a geographically dispersed, networked counterpublic that can articulate a critique of power …
Social Media and Symbolic Action
This study investigates symbolic action on popular social media platforms by empirically exploring the subjective experiences and motivations of participants in an exemplary campaign. Previous debates regarding the relationship between symbolic action and more traditional forms of political participation suggest a binary between up-the-ladder "civic culture" engagement and down-the-ladder "slacktivism." Interviews with participants in the Faceboo…
Social Media and Citizen Participation in “Official” and “Unofficial” Electoral Promotion
Drawing on interviews with leaders of the effort to promote the 2016 Bernie Sanders U.S. presidential candidacy on social media, this study contrasts the structure and content of various organizational networks to map the hybrid ecosystem of the contemporary digital campaign. While the “official” Sanders organization built applications to transform supporters into a tightly controlled distribution network for its social media messaging, this was …
It’s So Hard Not to be Funny in This Situation’
In light of the promise of humorous political memes as popular routes to citizen empowerment as well as concerns over their potential dangers, it is necessary to examine how everyday citizens make sense of their role in political expression and how they engage with them—or not—in their everyday social media activities. This focus group study explores these questions by focusing on the digital practices of U.S. young adults. The findings suggest a…
It’s my duty to be like “this is wrong”’
This study used focus groups to explore emergent patterns of youth political social media practices in the Trump era. The participants (U.S. undergraduates aged 18 to 26) suggested that Trump’s election was a transformative moment in their lives and that they had shifted their approaches to political social media in response. Many articulated an increased sense of duty and responsibility to use social media to counter perceived problems—such as T…
Pop Culture, Politics, and the News
From controversies over Hollywood’s on-screen portrayals and behind-the-scenes diversity to the latest outrage over a celebrity’s public statements or private behavior, the world of pop culture now serves as the basis for political news and commentary across a wide range of outlets and from both left and right perspectives. Drawing on dozens of interviews with entertainment journalists who produce politically minded coverage as well as testimonia…
Entertainment journalism as a resource for public connection
Entertainment journalism has long been a marginal object of academic inquiry due to its reputation as a trivial distraction from public affairs journalism, yet this view has since been challenged by scholars who emphasize its substantive role in political discourse. Although previous research has disputed the idea that entertainment news helps audiences forge connections with public issues, the present study renews this line of inquiry at a time …
From conspiracy to normalcy
In March of 2022, The Walt Disney Company voiced opposition to Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” (“Don’t Say Gay”) in support of LGBTQ+ stakeholders within the company and the public. This research studied a dataset of 68,481 tweets where the company’s stance was constructed as “grooming” children, that is, manipulating children for sexual abuse. Tweets were collected from March 13, 2022 to May 16, 2022 representing a 2-month period from D…
Sociology (11 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Law (5 works)