Journal Articles
“When You Care Enough to Defend the Very Best: How the Greeting Card Industry Manages Cultural Criticism,” forthcoming in Media, Culture & Society.
“Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport,” co-authored with Dr. Laura Grindstaff, forthcoming in November 2006 issue of Social Problems.
“Mediating citizenship through the lens of consumerism: Frames in the American Medicare reform debates of 2003-2004,” Social Semiotics, Vol.16 (No.2), June 2006, pp.243-261.
“Scolding John Q.: Articulating a normative relationship between politics and entertainment,” in The Communication Review, Vol.8, No.1, March 2005, pp.79-104.
“The Press as Agents of Nationalism in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee: How British Newspapers Celebrated a Media Event,” co-authored with Claire Wardle in European Journal of Communication, Vol.19, No.2, June 2004, pp.195-214.
“Digital Sentiment: The ‘Social Expression’ Industry and New Technologies” in Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Vol.25, No.3&4, Fall & Winter 2002, pp.316-326.
“Selling Canada to Canadians: Collective Memory, National Identity, and Popular Culture” in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol.19, No.2, June 2002, pp.212-229.
Book Chapters
“Mediating citizenship through the lens of consumerism: Frames in the American Medicare
reform debates of 2003-2004” to be re-printed when the journal issue is published as an edited volume called “Mediated Citizenship” by Routledge, 2007.
“Collective Memory on the Airwaves: The Negotiation of Unity and Diversity in a Troubled
Canadian Nationalism,” pp.67-83 in Canadian Cultural Poesis, Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, and Sheila Petty (Eds.), Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006.
