Dustin Kidd

Director of General Education, Temple University

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Media
Communication
Humanities
Social Science
Arts

About

Dustin Kidd, PhD, is a pop culture expert and a professor in the sociology department at Temple University. His research examines film, television, fiction, social media, comics, video games, music, and the arts, focusing on both inequalities and the ways marginalized groups use media to challenge those inequalities. He is the author of the books Social Media Freaks, Pop Culture Freaks, and Legislating Creativity. Dustin is available to give talks or media commentary. His current work focuses on narratives of disability in popular culture, social media, and social policy.

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Social Media and Social Movements
Sociology Compass
2016
Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Culture
2007
Pop Culture FREAKS
Unknown Venue
2018
The #GamerGate Files
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology
2016
Popular Culture
Sociology
2017
Legislating Creativity
Unknown Venue
2014
Social Media Freaks
Unknown Venue
2018
Public Culture in America: A Review of Cultural Policy Debates
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
2012
Mapplethorpe and the New Obscenity
Afterimage
2003
Democratic Practices in Arts Organizations
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
2009
5. French-German Culture Wars
The Seduction of Culture in German History
2006
Art as Propaganda: Bringing Du Bois into the Sociology of Art
Sociology Compass
2010
Beyond myopia in communications and the sociology of media
Information, Communication & Society
2023
Information technology & media sociology in a (still) pandemic world
Information, Communication & Society
2022
Kidd's Pop Culture FreaksKidd, Dustin. Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society, 2st ed. Routledge, 2016. 288 pages. ISBN: 978‐0813349121.
Popular Culture Review
2022
Fire in Our Bellies, Fear in Our Arts
Contexts
2012
Art in the Public Square: Democracy and the Associational Life of Culture in America
Unknown Venue
The Currents of Truth
Truth in Context
1998
Life Writing's Serious Implications
American Book Review
2021
Relationship Neuroscience: Advancing the Social Psychology of Close Relationships Using Functional Neuroimaging
Bridging Social Psychology
2006
Leaky Pipeline
The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions
2020
Women, Gender, and Popular Culture
Companion to Women's and Gender Studies
2020
SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE DEFENSE OF ART: CULTURE WARS, MAPPLETHORPE, AND THE ROAD FROM FORMALISM TO IDENTITY POLITICS
Research in Political Sociology
2004
Book Review: Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
Cultural Sociology
2021
Sex Cultures
Social Forces
2019
Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society
Terrorism and Political Violence
2019
The Art of Defiance: Graffiti, Politics, and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
2019
Cory Albertson, A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage, Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2018; xii + 129 pp.: ISBN 978113863353 (hbk)
Sexualities
2018
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
2018
Women as Producers of Culture
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
2016
The Production of White Male Heterosexuality
WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
2016
Book Review: Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Men and Masculinities
2014
New Resources in TRAILS: The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology
Teaching Sociology
2020
Book Review: Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era
Teaching Sociology
2008
On a Table Corner
Particle Swarm Optimization
2006
Art for Politics
Afterimage
2006
Confronting Consolidation
Afterimage
2005
Three. Contemporary Migration
The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
2004
Animal Spirits Through Creative Destruction
American Economic Review
2003
The Art Institution in the Age of Hyper-reproduction
Unknown Venue
Evolution as a Key to Process Sociology
Theoretical Sociology
2021
Figure 16.2. The government leaky pipeline: women’s under-representation in senior management in the central civil service
Unknown Venue

Education

University of Virginia

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