S Craig Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5754973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Craig Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Departments of Radio-Television-Film and Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Worried About the Wrong Things
It’s a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people’s online experiences besides porn, predators, a…
Worried About the Wrong Things
The Young and the Digital
In 2006, S. Craig Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundations well-funded digital media initiative alongside a select team of scholars and tech experts. The goal was simple: to understand young peoples emphatic embrace of social and mobile media. Watkins went on to build a small research team that skillfully collected over 500 surveys and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with young adults, parents, and educators while visiting the online s…
Hip Hop Matters
Books in review
Feminist Media Criticism and Feminist Media Practices
This article explores four thematic areas in feminist media criticism. First, it considers how gender informs norms and values that pattern industry production practices and conventions. Next, it explores how feminist criticism has influenced one of the emergent areas in media scholarship: reception studies. This particular subgenre of media studies examines how audiences actively engage the mediascape around them. Third, the focus shifts to the …
Representing
"Screening the Los Angeles "Riots
On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation f…
"Screening the Los Angeles "Riots
On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation f…
Feminist Media Criticism and Feminist Media Practices
This article explores four thematic areas in feminist media criticism. First, it considers how gender informs norms and values that pattern industry production practices and conventions. Next, it explores how feminist criticism has influenced one of the emergent areas in media scholarship: reception studies. This particular subgenre of media studies examines how audiences actively engage the mediascape around them. Third, the focus shifts to the …
"Screening the Los Angeles "Riots
On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation f…
Representing
Books in review
Feminist Media Criticism and Feminist Media Practices
This article explores four thematic areas in feminist media criticism. First, it considers how gender informs norms and values that pattern industry production practices and conventions. Next, it explores how feminist criticism has influenced one of the emergent areas in media scholarship: reception studies. This particular subgenre of media studies examines how audiences actively engage the mediascape around them. Third, the focus shifts to the …
Hip Hop Matters
The Young and the Digital
In 2006, S. Craig Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundations well-funded digital media initiative alongside a select team of scholars and tech experts. The goal was simple: to understand young peoples emphatic embrace of social and mobile media. Watkins went on to build a small research team that skillfully collected over 500 surveys and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with young adults, parents, and educators while visiting the online s…
Worried About the Wrong Things
Worried About the Wrong Things
It’s a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people’s online experiences besides porn, predators, a…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)