Joseph Faina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4899844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Faina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Faina |
| SIGNATURE | FAINA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0111-0482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘How Long Will They Mourn Me?’: Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and the Hauntology of Hip-Hop
This essay asserts that a specter is haunting Hip-Hop. The history of the genre contains frequent ghostly references to the tragic deaths of numerous artists. More than 25 years after their untimely, and forever linked, deaths, Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) are the two most prominent of these ghosts. Their spirits continue to release tracks, appear in movies, and perform ‘live’ as holograms with living artists. In th…
Baseball Made ‘Whole’: Rhetorical Hierarchy and Post-racial Discourse in Major League Baseball’s Inclusion of the Negro Leagues
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced a decision to formally include records of Negro League Baseball games as ‘official’ Major League status. Against the backdrop of widespread protests for social justice and discourses surrounding racial reckoning occurring during that same year, the decision garnered heightened importance given baseball’s symbolic resonance within US public culture. This essay asserts this decision, and the coverag…
Public journalism is a joke: The case for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Scholars have increasingly turned their attention to understanding and assessing the impact of faux news anchors Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, host of The Daily Show spinoff The Colbert Report. While important work has been done to illustrate the impact of these shows on political participation and public discourse they are still placed within traditional notions of political knowledge and civic partic…
Public journalism is a joke: The case for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Scholars have increasingly turned their attention to understanding and assessing the impact of faux news anchors Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, host of The Daily Show spinoff The Colbert Report. While important work has been done to illustrate the impact of these shows on political participation and public discourse they are still placed within traditional notions of political knowledge and civic partic…
Public journalism is a joke: The case for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Scholars have increasingly turned their attention to understanding and assessing the impact of faux news anchors Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, host of The Daily Show spinoff The Colbert Report. While important work has been done to illustrate the impact of these shows on political participation and public discourse they are still placed within traditional notions of political knowledge and civic partic…
Baseball Made ‘Whole’: Rhetorical Hierarchy and Post-racial Discourse in Major League Baseball’s Inclusion of the Negro Leagues
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced a decision to formally include records of Negro League Baseball games as ‘official’ Major League status. Against the backdrop of widespread protests for social justice and discourses surrounding racial reckoning occurring during that same year, the decision garnered heightened importance given baseball’s symbolic resonance within US public culture. This essay asserts this decision, and the coverag…
‘How Long Will They Mourn Me?’: Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and the Hauntology of Hip-Hop
This essay asserts that a specter is haunting Hip-Hop. The history of the genre contains frequent ghostly references to the tragic deaths of numerous artists. More than 25 years after their untimely, and forever linked, deaths, Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) are the two most prominent of these ghosts. Their spirits continue to release tracks, appear in movies, and perform ‘live’ as holograms with living artists. In th…
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Comedy (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (1 works)