The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice

This Handbook gathers over forty leading scholars and presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. The chapters explore intersecting identities, social structures, and power networks within media ownership, representation, selection, uses, effects, networks, and social transformation. Connecting critical media scholarship with intersectional feminism, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, Indigenous approaches, queer theory, diaspora studies, and environmental justice frameworks, the Handbook re-envisions the role of media and technology with an inclusive trauma-informed approach to scholarship that is essential for the future of this research.

Srividya Ramasubramanian is Newhouse Professor & Endowed Chair at Syracuse University. She is widely recognized for her pioneering work on race and media, media literacy initiatives, implicit bias reduction, and scholar-activism. She also has over 100 publications to her credit, including her co-authored book with Erica Scharrer Quantitative Research Methods in Communication: The Power of Numbers for Social Justice (2021). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Communication Monographs, Founding Director of the Difficult Dialogues Project and CODEHIFT (Collaboratory for Data Equity, Social Healing, Inclusive Futures, and Transformation), and Co-Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Media Rise.
Omotayo O. Banjo is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati and the Associate Dean of the Graduate College. She is a mixed-methods media effects scholar whose work centers on identity construction in entertainment media. Banjo has published four books and authored over two dozen journal articles and book chapters. She is a Fulbright award winner and engaged scholar, having presented her to policymakers and tech experts.

- Acknowledgements
- Contributor Bios
- Section A: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Perspectives, Positionalities, and Paradigms in Media and Social Justice Scholarship
- -Omotayo O. Banjo and Srividya Ramasubramanian
- Section B: Approaches and Analytic Frameworks
- Chapter 2: Political Economy of Communication in the Digital Platform Era
- -Dal Yong Jin
- Chapter 3: The Limits of Diversity and Popular Anti-Racism: The Need for Reparative Justice in the Cultural Industries
- -Anamik Saha
- Chapter 4: Critical Media Effects: A Framework for Bridging Critical Cultural Communication with Media Effects Research
- -Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo
- Chapter 5: Black Audiences and Media Resistance
- -David Stamps
- Chapter 6: "How Do You Shift That?": Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies
- -jas l. moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph
- Chapter 7: Latine Media Studies: From Near Omission to Radical Intersectionality
- -Angharad N. Valdivia
- Chapter 8: Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies
- -Keisuke Kimura and Shinsuke Eguchi
- Chapter 9: Queer and Transgender Media Studies
- -Erique Zhang and Thomas J. Billard
- Chapter 10: Digital Religion and the Negotiation of Gender/Sex Norms
- -Ruth Tsuria
- Chapter 11: Critical Disability Media Studies
- -Katie Ellis and Jessica Keeley
- Section C: Methods and Meaning Making
- Chapter 12: Critical Discourse Analysis
- -Marissa Doshi
- Chapter 13: Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice
- -Srividya Ramasubramanian, Shannon Burth, and Minnie Macmillian
- Chapter 14: Justice Informatics, Justice for Us All: Liberation from Techno-Ideology
- -Jasmina Tacheva and Tanya Loughead
- Chapter 15: Researching Closed Fields: What We Can Learn from Analyzing So-Called Constrained, Inaccessible and Invisible Media Contexts
- -Hanan Badr
- Chapter 16: Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings: A Data Feminist Approach to Transnational Feminist Media Studies and Social Media Activism
- -Ololade M. Faniyi and Radhika Gajjala
- Section D: Resistance and Revisioning
- Chapter 17: Mediated Socioeconomic Injustice: Representations of Poor and Working Class People in Mainstream Media
- -Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay
- Chapter 18: Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema
- -Swarnavel Eswaran
- Chapter 19: Media Representations, Incarceration, and Social Justice
- -Adam Key
- Chapter 20: Heroes of the Border: Using Counternarratives to Break Border Stereotypes and Create Superhero Narratives
- -Anthony R. Ramirez
- Chapter 21: Media Creation and Consumption as Activism among African Transnational and Diasporic communities
- -Omotayo O. Banjo and Tomide Oloruntobi
- Chapter 22: Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok
- -Elisha Lim, Satveer Kaur-Gill, and Krittiya Kantachote
- Chapter 23: Media and Mental Health Interventions among Migrants: Addressing the Disparities
- -Rukhsana Ahmed and Seulgi Park
- Chapter 24: Health Media Activism: Latin American Organizing in Response to Feminicides
- -Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez
- Chapter 25: Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities: Challenges and Solutions
- -Kelly Merrill Jr.
- Chapter 26: Pedagogies of Resistance - Social Movements and the Construction of Communicative Knowledge in Brazil
- -Paola Sartoretto
- Chapter 27: Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies about Media and Justice through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching
- -Andrea Gambino and Jeff Share
- Chapter 28: Alternative Cultures of Resistance and Collective Organizing in the Platform Economy
- -Cheryll Ruth Soriano
- Chapter 29: LGBT Activism, Social Media and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana
- -Godfried A. Asante, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, and Ama B. Appiah-Kubi
- Chapter 30: Indigenous Environmental Media Activism in South Asia
- -Uttaran Dutta
- Chapter 31: Indigenous Media Organizing
- -Mohan J. Dutta and Christine Elers
- Section E: Conclusion
- Chapter 32: The Future of Media and Social Justice: Resistances, Reckoning, and Reparative Justice
- -Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo
- Index