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This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of media studies, as well as contesting the narrow boundaries of literary studies for engaging in contemporary postcolonial media/ted cultures, this essay attempts to argue for the importance of postcolonial media studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This forum paper invites us to consider whether the neoliberal restructuring of academic labor and structures is impacting the development of theory-oriented scholarship in the Communications field. The paper focuses on the possibility that this might be occurring and engages with areas where we might see such impact. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This essay examines white femininity as a transnational phenomenon. Specifially, the essay addresses the representational logics of whiteness through which contemporary white women are positioned as “global” mothers in popular culture. The larger goal of this is to illustrate how “intimate” relations of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism are negotiated and managed in contemporary positionings of white women as “global mothers.” [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]