Matt Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1008-9232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Platforming the past
Research on nostalgia has shown how media texts can promote ideological visions of the past. The 2017 3D platformer video game A Hat in Time (AHIT) is a case study in this nostalgic construction of values in a contemporary, postmodern, convergence-culture context. The game's marketing and text discursively and materially construct AHIT as a continuation of video games from the 1990s and early 2000s in a way that creates a communal nostalgia. Fans…
Putting the "Black" in fan studies
Editorial for "Centering Blackness in Fan Studies," edited by Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Matt Griffin, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 44 (December 15, 2024)
Maintaining Gaps in Teacher Diversity, Preparedness, Effectiveness, and Retention? A Program Theory Evaluation of Mathematics Teacher Training in the New York City Teaching Fellows
This study examines the extent to which the New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF) has delivered on its promise of improving mathematics teacher diversity, preparedness, effectiveness, and retention in hard-to-staff city schools. As a program theory evaluation study, it articulates the theory of action for selective alternative route programs and uses this to evaluate NYCTF’s program for secondary mathematics. The analysis draws on longitudinal d…
That moment meant a lot to my daughter”
This paper analyzes a viral Twitter thread from October 2020 in which Marvel fans debated the quality and political significance of a scene from Avengers: Endgame that highlights a number of Marvel’s female superheroes. Comments formed a complex reception matrix that used gender and affective reactions to the scene to construct political statements about the role of identity politics in popular culture. Many users framed supposedly rational, crit…
Of Superheroes and SJWs
Fugitive Science
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture." American Nineteenth Century History, 19(2), pp. 204–205
That moment meant a lot to my daughter”
This paper analyzes a viral Twitter thread from October 2020 in which Marvel fans debated the quality and political significance of a scene from Avengers: Endgame that highlights a number of Marvel’s female superheroes. Comments formed a complex reception matrix that used gender and affective reactions to the scene to construct political statements about the role of identity politics in popular culture. Many users framed supposedly rational, crit…
Of Superheroes and SJWs
Fugitive Science
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture." American Nineteenth Century History, 19(2), pp. 204–205
Maintaining Gaps in Teacher Diversity, Preparedness, Effectiveness, and Retention? A Program Theory Evaluation of Mathematics Teacher Training in the New York City Teaching Fellows
This study examines the extent to which the New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF) has delivered on its promise of improving mathematics teacher diversity, preparedness, effectiveness, and retention in hard-to-staff city schools. As a program theory evaluation study, it articulates the theory of action for selective alternative route programs and uses this to evaluate NYCTF’s program for secondary mathematics. The analysis draws on longitudinal d…
That moment meant a lot to my daughter”
This paper analyzes a viral Twitter thread from October 2020 in which Marvel fans debated the quality and political significance of a scene from Avengers: Endgame that highlights a number of Marvel’s female superheroes. Comments formed a complex reception matrix that used gender and affective reactions to the scene to construct political statements about the role of identity politics in popular culture. Many users framed supposedly rational, crit…
Of Superheroes and SJWs
Platforming the past
Research on nostalgia has shown how media texts can promote ideological visions of the past. The 2017 3D platformer video game A Hat in Time (AHIT) is a case study in this nostalgic construction of values in a contemporary, postmodern, convergence-culture context. The game's marketing and text discursively and materially construct AHIT as a continuation of video games from the 1990s and early 2000s in a way that creates a communal nostalgia. Fans…
Putting the "Black" in fan studies
Editorial for "Centering Blackness in Fan Studies," edited by Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Matt Griffin, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 44 (December 15, 2024)
Art (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Fandom (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)