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publications

All publications are available online and hyperlinked or will be hyperlinked below, when available.

REFEREED BOOK MANUSCRIPT 

  1. Stein, K.  (In-Progress). And How Does That Make You Feel? Theratainment and the Digital Commodification of Mental Health. Book for the Economics and Technology Studies area of the University of California Press.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Stein, K., & Gray, K. (2025). “Not a detour from rigor”: Teaching as care, organizing, and collective world-making. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 26(1). Selected to lead the issue as an invited commentary.
  2. Stein, K. (2023). YOU BETTER WORK! Drag Queen Performativity and Visibility on #dragqueen TikTok. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 8(2), 139-157. [Electronic Version]
  3. Stein, K., Yao, Y., Aitamurto, T. (2022). Examining Communicative Forms in #TikTokDocs’ Sexual Health Videos. International Journal of Communication (IJoC), 16(2022), 1309-1331. [Electronic Version]
  1. Psarras,E., Stein, K., Shah, P. (2021) “You’re not here for the right reasons!” From The Bachelorette to Instagram Influencer, Feminist Media Studies, 23(2), 571-578. [Electronic Version]
  2. Gray, K., Stein, K. (2021). “We ‘said her name’ and got zucked”: Black Women Calling-out the Carceral Logics of Digital Platforms. Gender and Society, 35(4). [Electronic Version]
  3. Stein, K. (2021). What Do TV, Rhetorical Analysis, and Black Men Living on The Down Low All Have in Common? The Oprah Winfrey Show. The Popular Culture Studies Journal,9(1).321-338. [Electronic Version]
  4. Aitamurto, T., Stevenson Won, A., Sakshuwong, S., Kim, B., Sadeghi, Y., Stein, K., Royal, R., Kircos, C. (2021). From FOMO to JOMO: Fear and Joy of Missing Out in 360° Video Viewing Experience. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21). ACM. [Electronic Version]
  5. Stein, K. (2016). The Taming of Homosexuality on the Popular Sitcom, Will & Grace. The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 4(1 & 2), 212-239. [Electronic Version]
  6. Stein, K. (2016). Developing and Implementing a Flipped Classroom for Business Communication. The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching, 1(1). [Electronic  Version]
  7. Jennings, N., Gruber, F., Lahusen, S., Hildebrand, E., Koray, S., Elif Baykal, G., Gomez, P., Toro, Y.,  Klempin, A., Sirichotchumnarn, P., Warinnet, T., Talbot, S., Stein, K., Götz, M. (2016). What shapes myself. TELEVIZION, 29, 14-19. [Electronic Version]

BOOK CHAPTERS 

  1. Stein, K. (2028). [Provisional title TBD]. In D. Jaramillo-Dent, D. Craig, J. Lin, T. Divon, & C. Goanta (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Creator and Influencer Studies. Routledge. (Invited contributor; publication anticipated 2028)
  2. DeVeaux, C., Gray, K. L., Stein, K, & Frey, W. R. (2026). Techno-Ratchery: How Cita’s World Innovated Black Digital Engagement. In A 90s Kind of World: Black Girls’ and Women’s Popular Culture (edited by Aria S. Halliday), University of Illinois Press.

RESEARCH METHODS/ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  1. Stein, K. (2026). Visualizing Visibility: Inclusive Methodologies for Analyzing Race, Gender, and Algorithmic Bias in Drag Queen TikTok Videos. In Inclusive Research Methodologies SAGE Research Methods Case Collection. SAGE Publications. Invited Contributor.
  2. Stein, K. (2025). Shaping Body Image: The Influence of Reality Television and Social Media. The American Mosaic: Women’s History in the United States from Bloomsbury / ABC-CLIO, Invited Contributor. [Electronic Version]

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Stein, K. (2022). Review of Design Justice Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Communication Research Trends (CRT), 41(2), 17-19. [Electronic Version]
  2. Stein, K. (2022). Review of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, Television and New Media (TVNM), 24(2), 242-244. [Electronic Version]
  3. Stein, K. (2022). Review of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media by Tarleton Gillespie, International Journal of Communication (IJoC), 16(2022), 2387-2389. [Electronic Version]
  4. Stein, K. (2021). Review of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things by Jenny Davis, Communication Research Trends (CRT), 40(1), 36-37. [Electronic Version]
  5. Stein, K. (2020). Review of Games Girls Play: Contexts of Girls and Video Games by Carolyn Cunningham, Communication Research Trends (CRT), 39(4), 36-38. [Electronic Version]

COLUMNS, INTERVIEWS, AND VIDEO ESSAYS

  1. Stein, K., Reinhard, C. (2023). Fandom During the Pandemic: Impacts of COVID-19 on People’s Fandom Experiences, The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 11(1). 123-129. [Electronic Version]
  2. Stein, K. (September 28, 2020). “That is fiiiiiierce!” Drag Queen Culture on the Audiovisual Platform, TikTok. TikTok theme week, In Media Res. [Electronic Version]
  3. Stein, K., Talbot, S. (2016). Identity, family, and the documentary I Am Leo. A conversation with Kez Margerie. TELEVIZION, 29, 31-32. [Electronic Version]
  1. Stein, K., Talbot, S. (2016). “When transgenderism isn’t a taboo, these children can more easily express themselves.” Transgender Youth, Children’s Rights, The Netherlands, and How Ky turned into Niels, a Conversation with Director Els Van Driel. TELEVIZION, 29, 36-37. [Electronic Version]

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Articles In Revision

  1. Maddox, J., Reynolds, C., Stein, K., & Bendefaa, N. In Defense of Qualitative Description: Reclaiming “Small t” Theory as a Site of Knowledge Advancement. (In Revision at Communication Theory)
  2. Schellewald, A., Stein, K., Siles, I., Firth, E., & Maddox, J. This Program Was Brought to You by the Algorithm: Rethinking Television via TikTok. (In Revision at Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies)
  3. Stein, K., & Navar-Gill, A. Lana Knows Best: Reality Television and the Rise of the Technochauvinist Imagination. (In Revision at the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies)
  4. Stein, K., & Rauchberg, J. Disabled Academics Know: Co-reflections on Crip Spacetime, Conferencing, and the Labor of Showing Up. (In Revision at the Journal of Autoethnography).
  5. Stein, K., & Taylor, Z. From Screen to Store: Exploring the Reality TV to Influencer Pipeline on Love Island. (In Revision  at Television & New Media)
  6. Stein, K. Candy-Colored Control: Technofemme Aesthetics from Bedrooms to Platforms. (Under Review at Feminist Media Histories)
  7.  Stein, K. Scrolling for Sanity: How TikTok’s Platform Politics Shape Mental Health Creators. (In Revision at the European Journal of Cultural Studies; selected from participation in a Digital Mental Health Symposium, University of Turku, Finland)

Articles Under Review

  1. Stein, K. Humilitainment 2.0: Crime as Clickbait and the Digital Amplification of Policing and Punishment on COPSTV. (Under Review at Popular Communication)