In her 2016 speech accepting the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for 1989, Taylor
Swift gave a message directed at any young women who were watching:'focus on the work' …

This article contributes to postfeminist media debates by interrogating an emerging
configuration of celebrity feminism; one in which authenticity, entrepreneurial subjectivities …

The following special section is a series of responses to Catherine Rottenberg's This Is Not a
Feminism Textbook (Goldsmiths University Press, 2023). This is the second book in the 'This …

For roughly the last two decades, the music, life and public image of American musical artist
Taylor Swift have been major focal points of global celebrity culture. Making her debut in the …

In September 2016, NBC aired an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 1999-
) called “Making a Rapist” inspired by Netflix's true crime series Making a Murderer. The …

This dissertation focuses on Barbara O'Keefe's message-design logics theory and Taylor
Swift's music videos on YouTube. The first chapter provides background information and …

This dissertation is motivated by the question that asks how the ideal Millennial constituent is
produced, and reproduced, in American society as a response to crisis. The interrelated …

Researchers have established social media as intrinsic to fourth wave feminism. However,
even as social media has created a platform for many feminist theorists to share their work, it …

This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses
the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder's theory of …

Recent scholarly accounts have noted the increasing slippage between feminism, digital
cultures, and popular culture, yet few have located media fandom at this juncture. While …