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Selected Publications

[ Journal Articles ]

Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible: Reflections on Bob McChesney’s Academic Impact and the Future of the Field

Mandy Tröger
Sydney L. Forde

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Performative competition: The U.S. wireless communication market and the T-Mobile/Sprint merger

Pawel Popiel
Christopher Ali
Hendrik Theine
Sydney L. Forde

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The “NextGen” of Subsumption: The Adoption of ATSC 3.0 by US Public Broadcasters

Christopher Ali
Sydney L. Forde

The Dialectic of Broadband

Sydney L. Forde

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Public Media Lobbying:
The Case of APTS

Christopher Ali
Sydney L. Forde

From Broadcast to Broadband: Policy Silences in the ‘Compromise and Consensus’ of Industry Capture

Sydney L. Forde
Matthew F. Jordan

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Arm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of Gaza

Sydney L. Forde
Des Freedman

Shifting Neoliberalism in US Telecommunications Policy: A Critical Reading of Chicago School Roads

Sydney L. Forde

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The Racialized Celebrity Other in Perfume Advertisements

Matthew P. McAllister
Yasemin Beykont
Sydney L. Forde

Ontario’s right-wing populism “will cost you”: A propaganda 
analysis of Ford’s Sticker Act and Canadian journalism’s response

Sydney L. Forde

Digital palimpsests: Exploring 
“Ideological Correction” in Online News Updates of Portland Protests & Police Violence

Sydney L. Forde
Robert E. Gutsche Jr
Juliet Pinto

GOOD MORNING, COVID!” The inertia of journalistic imaginaries in morning shows’ online comments

Robert E. Gutsche Jr
Sydney L. Forde
Juliet Pinto
Yanqi Zhu

[ Refereed Book Chapters ]
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bell hooks' “Eating the Other” as a Critical Advertising Framework

Matthew P. McAllister
Sydney L. Forde
Yasemin Beykont

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Postcolonial Marketing Communication: Images from the Global South

UnFoxing Market Failure: Complicating Media Matters for America’s #UnFoxMyCableBox Campaign for Digital Activism After Trump


Sydney L. Forde

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The Future of the Presidency, Democracy, and Journalism: After Trump

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[ Public Scholarship ]

A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream

Pawel Popiel
Dwayne Winseck
Hendrik Theine
Sydney L. Forde

Problematizing Performative Policy in the Name of Future Evolutions

Sydney L. Forde

The Political Economy of Journalistic Objectivity

Sydney L. Forde

The Bad Business of BEAD

Christopher Ali
David Elliot Berman
Sydney L. Forde
Sascha Meinrath
Victor Pickard

Meta's Blockade of Democracy

Sydney L. Forde

Canadian Trucker Protests Show How the Loudest Voices in the 
Room Distort Democracy


Matthew Jordan
Sydney L. Forde

Advertising and Promotion

Matthew P. McAllister
Alex Nutter
Yasemin Beykont
Sydney L. Forde

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