Joel Penney, PhD

Associate Prof @ Montclair State U New book “Pop Culture, Politics, and the News” out now from Oxford U Press

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

New article alert!
Now available as open-access from Media, Culture, & Society - “Entertainment Journalism as a Resource for Public Connection: A Qualitative Study of Digital News Audiences”
https://t.co/2v0ppJv7U3

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@Steven_Hyden @en_cohen Our Lady Peace’s first album and rock radio hit (“Starseed”) was from 1994, the same year as Sponge’s Rotting Piñata. No excuses Steven!

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@seanphelan8 I’d recommend “Resisting the News” by Jennifer Rauch

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

I spoke on @USATODAY's The Excerpt podcast to discuss the the pop culture battle for hearts and minds.
https://t.co/NPhvKsY5f6

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

“entertainment media is a crucial component of the extreme politics landscape that directs the flows of political attention” - important research!!

[dr. yilang peng @pengyilang]

How do far-right media leverage social media logics and entertainment content to amplify their voices? We are excited to share our new research in New Media & Society (w/ @tianyangyt @fangkc ). https://t.co/TJWhm70KoK

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

https://t.co/G9OoW785uc
I got another chance to talk about my book with USA Today: “There’s absolutely been more of a concerted effort in the conservative world to push into pop culture as one of their big battlegrounds”

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https://t.co/vUHlDIs7m7

I recently spoke to The Hill about how “conservatives have realized ‘the path towards long-term political success [is] to take back the pop culture from the left, which they see as totally dominating the entertainment world’”

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

I spoke with Now This about the conservative movement’s pop culture media strategy…

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

You may have heard the song 'Rich Men North of Richmond' circulating the internet. The tune's meteoric rise is just one example of conservatives' efforts to get back into the pop culture conversation.

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

I wrote a piece on the pop culture news business: “In the cutthroat battle for online attention, the priority is to be part of the social media conversation — and never be left out. This incentivizes speed above all else, with sometimes disastrous result”
https://t.co/wmaWtb0AwA

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

The infrastructure of the internet enables an increasingly alarming rumor mill, writes @professorpenney. https://t.co/UmN9UhAX6B

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

The infrastructure of the internet enables an increasingly alarming rumor mill, writes @professorpenney. https://t.co/yeOI4UJGgw

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@amnadler @ajbauer @dorontaussig Great point about the animating force of social stigma and exclusion. I also found this to be a major theme in my research on right-wing discourse around pop culture, i.e. backlash to “woke” Hollywood and “cancel culture,” etc.

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@rSark Congrats! Great to see this analysis of an important case study

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

My book “Pop Culture, Politics, and the News” is reviewed in the new issue of International Journal of Communication @IJoC_USC

[International Journal of Communication @IJoC_USC]

- Pop Culture, Politics, and the News by @professorpenney
- Music and Digital Media by @georgieborn (Ed.)
- The History of Trans Representation by Traci B. Abbott
- A Story to Save Your Life by Sarah C. Bishop
- Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York by Cortland Rankin

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@LBRolsky @PeckReece @bilgeyesil1 @ajbauer An interesting detail that I note in the book is that Lear was attacked from the left as well, thanks to Archie Bunker

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

Curious for your thoughts @PeckReece @ajbauer

https://t.co/oivO9ZXfAa

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@bilgeyesil1 @ajbauer @PeckReece It seems like a lot changed between 1969 when Smothers Bros got cancelled and 1975 when SNL became a huge TV hit as the ‘voice of the counterculture’

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@ajbauer @PeckReece Very true - in my book I talk about Billy Wilkerson’s Hollywood Reporter columns that helped foment the ‘red scare.’ But that was an era when the right saw Hollywood as theirs to police - different from recent decades when it became seen as a lost cause to avoid and shun

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

@PeckReece @ajbauer Good point - that definitely fits the ‘moral panic’ pattern. But there does seem to have been a shift over time from ‘pop culture is morally corrupt’ to ‘pop culture is leftist propaganda’ that Breitbart gets the credit for

[Joel Penney, PhD @professorpenney]

I wrote an article for Vox about the research for my book! It’s called “Right-wing media used to shun pop culture. Now it’s obsessed with it.”
https://t.co/oivO9ZXfAa

[MCS Journal @MCSjournal]

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @professorpenney illuminates the interpretive processes of US audience members who engage online with entertainment news and how those news to navigate various political debates. https://t.co/wKoUis0ErI