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Dr. Penney Writes Article for Vox

Covering the right wing’s obsession with pop culture

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Dr. Joel Penney, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Media, wrote a piece in Vox about the right wing’s obsession with pop culture.

Dr. Penney begins the article with, “Is the blockbuster success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie a victory for the “anti-woke”?”

Dr. Penney specializes in new media, critical/cultural studies, and political communication and theory. His research focuses on the uses of participatory and digital media for social and political advocacy as well as the construction of collective identities. His book, Pop Culture, Politics, and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape, is available from Oxford University Press.

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