Chelsea Reynolds
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1111 S. Broadway Suite 100 Los Angeles, CA 90015
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Mail code: 2020Campus: Dtphx
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Chelsea Julian Reynolds, Ph.D., is the inaugural director of the Center for Culture and Inclusion in Media at the ASU California Center, where she is also an associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is the elected vice-chair of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) Publications Committee and is vice-head of the AEJMC LGBTQ Interest Group. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Scholarship.
Reynolds's current research examines the relationships between mass media, sexual communication, and internet censorship. Her academic writing has been published in top interdisciplinary journals such as Journal of Sex Research; Communication, Culture & Critique; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator; Media Report to Women; and Journal of Communication Inquiry. She is the author of a textbook, "Sexual Communication: Research in Action" (2022). Additionally, Reynolds is a recognized leader in trauma-informed pedagogy and campus mental health. She is a vocal advocate for workplace wellbeing and representation of marginalized communities.
Prior to academia, Reynolds worked in the magazine industry at Men's Health, Better Homes and Gardens, and Midwest Living. For seven years, she served as media relations chair for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and for five years she worked as an editor at the Association of Health Care Journalists. Before joining the faculty at ASU, she was an associate professor of journalism at California State University, Fullerton, where she also taught in the University Honors Program.
Reynolds lives in Los Angeles with her wife, Nilo, and their cat, Little Mama. She enjoys Pilates, hiking, and exploring the great culinary landscape of Southern California.
- Ph.D., Mass Communication - University of Minnesota (2017)
- M.A., Journalism - University of Missouri (2012)
- B.A., Magazine Journalism, English - Iowa State University (2008)
Alternative media, critical discourse analysis, cultural and critical studies, journalism, law and policy, LGBTQ+, mental health, qualitative methods, sexual communication, sexuality, surveillance, theories of power, trauma
Center for Culture & Inclusion in Media
Critical Media Studies Research Cluster
Reynolds, C. (2024). “This is not a slippery slope” versus “the queer sex panic is just beginning”: Discourse about FOSTA-SESTA in ideologically diverse US mass media, 2017-2023. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 01968599231220925.
Arrey, T., & Reynolds, C. (2023). “I definitely would appreciate a little more validation”: Toward an ethics of care in college newsrooms and journalism education. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 78(2), 142-164.
Reynolds, C. (2021). “Craigslist is nothing more than an internet brothel”: sex work and sex trafficking in US newspaper coverage of craigslist sex forums. The Journal of Sex Research, 58(6), 681-693.
Lance, Z. L., & Reynolds, C. J. (2021). “Going virtual helped me learn that I can handle everything”: Campus magazine production as a high impact practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 76(4), 448-468.
Reynolds, C. (2021). Magazines that made me: VICE. Journal of Magazine Media 22(1), 19-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jmm.2021.0029.
Reynolds, C. (2020). “My zines, so far, aren't as political as other works I've produced”: Communicative capitalism among queer feminist zinesters. Communication, Culture & Critique, 13(1), 92-110.
Reynolds C. (2020). Pedagogy of the stressed: Mental health in the mass communication classroom and on campuses. In Carter-Olson C., Everbach T. (Eds.), AEJMC master teacher series: Testing tolerance: Addressing tough topics in the Journalism and Mass Communication classroom (pp. 43–58). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Reynolds, C. (2020). The “woke” sex discourse: Sexuality and gender in online consumer magazines. The Handbook of Magazine Studies, 180-197.
Reynolds, C. (2019). Building theory from media ideology: Coding for power in journalistic discourse. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 43(1), 47-69.
Reynolds, C. (2017). Hanging up the smoking jacket: Productive oppression and Playboy's impacts on mediated sexualization. Journal of Magazine Media, 18(1).
Reynolds, C. (2016). “8 things Latin moms say about men and sex” vs. “The 19 most frustrating things about casual dating”: Sexuality and relationships in Cosmo for Latinas online and Cosmopolitan online. Media Report to Women, 44(3), 12-18.
Reynolds, C. (2015). “I am super straight and I prefer you be too:” Constructions of heterosexual masculinity in online personal ads for “straight” men seeking sex with men. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 39(3), 213-231.
In Progress:
Reynolds, C. & DeFoster, R. (Under contract). Critiquing the Drake-Kendrick discourse: Diss tracks and the hip hop theory of punishment.
Mendez, L., Reynolds, C., Arroyo, J. & Trevizo, V. (Under review). “What my Mexican family hears when I tell them I have seen a therapist”: How Latinx mental health content creators use social media as an intersectional counterspace.
Maddox, J., Reynolds, C., Stein, K., & Bendefaa, N. (Under review). In defense of descriptive methods: Gatekeeping and high theory in mass communication research.
Reynolds, C. (In preparation). “We tried to warn you, but the coal mine’s on fire now:” Adult industry news as advocacy journalism in the wake of FOSTA/SESTA.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 460 | Race, Gender, and Media |
| MCO 460 | Race, Gender, and Media |