Sarah Florini
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Sarah Florini is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English and the Associate Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. She holds a doctorate in Communication and Culture from Indiana University. She researches the intersection of race and technology, and her work has appeared in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television and New Media, and Transformative Works and Cultures. Her book Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks is available through NYU Press.
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, Indiana University, 2012
the intersection of race and technology; social media; podcasting; Black digital culture; critical race theory; media studies; African American and African Diaspora Studies
Books
Blackness. There’s an App for That: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. (in progress).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“This Week in Blackness, the George Zimmerman Acquittal, and the Production of a Networked Collective Identity.” New Media and Society 19, no. 3 (2017): 439-454.
“This Week in Blackness and the Construction of Blackness in Independent Digital Media.” Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Rebecca Lind, 328-45. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Disrupting the Past, Reframing the Present: Websites, Alternative Histories, and Petit Récits as Black Nationalist Politics.” Social Memory in a Mediated World. Remembering in Troubled Times. Edited by Andrea Hajek, Christian Pentzold, and Christine Lohmiere, 113-28. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
“The Podcast ‘Chitlin’ Circuit’: Black Podcasters, Alternative Media, and Enclaved Social Spaces.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 22, no. 4 (2015): 209-19.
"Recontextualizing he Racial Present by Retelling the Past: Intertextuality and the Politics of Remembering Online.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 31, no. 4 (2014): 314-326.
"Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’: Communication and Cultural Performance on ‘Black Twitter’.” Television and New Media 15, no. 3 (2014): 223-37.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
FMS 394 | Special Topics |
CDH 593 | Applied Project |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 598 | Special Topics |
FMS 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
FMS 503 | Media Industries |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 523 | Authorship in Film and Media |
FMS 523 | Authorship in Film and Media |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 494 | Special Topics |
FMS 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
FMS 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 394 | Special Topics |
FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 110 | Introduction to New Media |
FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 598 | Special Topics |
FMS 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 110 | Introduction to New Media |
FMS 394 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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FMS 110 | Introduction to New Media |
FMS 351 | Emerging Digital Media |