Monographs
The Internet is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape our Digital Lives (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
Refereed Journal Articles
Maddox, J. & Schroder, J. (accepted, forthcoming). Moral dimensions of the marketplace: Cancel culture (wars) and the battle for liberalism in the digital public sphere. Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies.
Creech, B. & Maddox, J. (2022). Thus spoke Zuckerberg: Journalistic discourse, executive personae, and the personalization of tech industry power. New Media & Society.
Maddox, J. (2022). Micro-celebrities of information: Mapping calibrated expertise and knowledge influencers among social media veterinarians. Information, Communication & Society.
Maddox, J. & Kanthawala, S. (2022). The revolution will be forwarded: Interrogating India's WhatsApp imaginary. Journal of Communication Inquiry.
Kanthawala, S. & Maddox, J. (2022). Hiding in the echo chamber: Fact-checking failures and individual strategies of accuracy determination on WhatsApp in India. Asian Journal of Communication.
Creech, B. & Maddox, J. (2022). Of essential workers and working from home: Journalistic discourse and the precarities of a pandemic economy. Journalism.
Maddox, J. & Creech, B. (2021). Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminism pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse. International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Maddox, J. (2021) On the limits of platform-centric research: YouTube, ASMR, and affordance bilingualism. International Journal of Communication.
Maddox, J. (2020). What do creators and viewers owe to each other? Microcelebrity, reciprocity, and transactional tingles in the ASMR YouTube community. First Monday, 26(1).
Maddox, J. (2020). The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the internet’s cute economy. New Media & Society. doi:10.1177/1461444820956345
Maddox, J. & Creech, B. (2020). Interrogating LeftTube: ContraPoints and the possibilities of critical media praxis on YouTube. Television & New Media. doi:10.1177/1527476420953549
Maddox, J. & Malson, J. (2020). Guidelines without lines, communities without borders: Challenging the marketplace of ideas metaphor in social media platform policies. Social Media + Society 6(2). doi:10.1177/2056305120926622
Maddox, J. (2019) “‘Be a Badass with a Good Ass’: Race, Freakery, and Postfeminism in the #StrongIsTheNewSkinny Beauty Myth. Feminist Media Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1682025
Maddox, J. (2018). “Fear and selfie-loathing in America: Identifying the interstices of othering, iconoclasm, and the selfie.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 51(1), 26-49.
Chess, S., & Maddox, J. (2018) “Kim Kardashian is my new BFF: Video games and the looking glass celebrity.” Popular Communication, 16(3), 196-210
Maddox, J. (2017). “Of internet born: Idolatry, the Slender Man meme, and the feminization of digital spaces.” Feminist Media Studies, 18(2), 235-248.
Maddox, J. (2017). “Guns don’t kill people…selfies do”: Rethinking narcissism as exhibitionism in selfie-related deaths. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(3), 193-205.
CITATIONS
Creech, B. & Maddox, J. (2022). Thus spoke Zuckerberg: Journalistic discourse, executive personae, and the personalization of tech industry power. New Media & Society.
Maddox, J. (2022). Micro-celebrities of information: Mapping calibrated expertise and knowledge influencers among social media veterinarians. Information, Communication & Society.
Maddox, J. & Kanthawala, S. (2022). The revolution will be forwarded: Interrogating India's WhatsApp imaginary. Journal of Communication Inquiry.
Kanthawala, S. & Maddox, J. (2022). Hiding in the echo chamber: Fact-checking failures and individual strategies of accuracy determination on WhatsApp in India. Asian Journal of Communication.
Creech, B. & Maddox, J. (2022). Of essential workers and working from home: Journalistic discourse and the precarities of a pandemic economy. Journalism.
Maddox, J. & Creech, B. (2021). Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminism pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse. International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Maddox, J. (2021) On the limits of platform-centric research: YouTube, ASMR, and affordance bilingualism. International Journal of Communication.
Maddox, J. (2020). What do creators and viewers owe to each other? Microcelebrity, reciprocity, and transactional tingles in the ASMR YouTube community. First Monday, 26(1).
Maddox, J. (2020). The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the internet’s cute economy. New Media & Society. doi:10.1177/1461444820956345
Maddox, J. & Creech, B. (2020). Interrogating LeftTube: ContraPoints and the possibilities of critical media praxis on YouTube. Television & New Media. doi:10.1177/1527476420953549
Maddox, J. & Malson, J. (2020). Guidelines without lines, communities without borders: Challenging the marketplace of ideas metaphor in social media platform policies. Social Media + Society 6(2). doi:10.1177/2056305120926622
Maddox, J. (2019) “‘Be a Badass with a Good Ass’: Race, Freakery, and Postfeminism in the #StrongIsTheNewSkinny Beauty Myth. Feminist Media Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1682025
Maddox, J. (2018). “Fear and selfie-loathing in America: Identifying the interstices of othering, iconoclasm, and the selfie.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 51(1), 26-49.
Chess, S., & Maddox, J. (2018) “Kim Kardashian is my new BFF: Video games and the looking glass celebrity.” Popular Communication, 16(3), 196-210
Maddox, J. (2017). “Of internet born: Idolatry, the Slender Man meme, and the feminization of digital spaces.” Feminist Media Studies, 18(2), 235-248.
Maddox, J. (2017). “Guns don’t kill people…selfies do”: Rethinking narcissism as exhibitionism in selfie-related deaths. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(3), 193-205.
CITATIONS
Book Chapters
Maddox, J. (2019) Calling out racism for what it is: Internet memes, the oppositional gaze, and BBQ Becky. In L. Coleman and C. Campbell’s Media, Myth, and Millennials. Rowman & Littlefield.
Maddox, J., Holiday, S., and Lyu, Y. (2019). From the ashes of ubiquity: Selfie culture as a new communication frontier. In M. Filimowicz and V. Tzankova (eds.) Reimagining Communication: Mediation. Routledge.
Britt, R., Maddox, J., Kanthawala, S., and Hayes, J. (in press). Mobile health, narrative, and data mining strategies for effective interventions. In Kim and Songs (eds.) New Technology for Health-Related Cognitive and Behavioral Change. Elsevier.
Maddox, J., Holiday, S., and Lyu, Y. (2019). From the ashes of ubiquity: Selfie culture as a new communication frontier. In M. Filimowicz and V. Tzankova (eds.) Reimagining Communication: Mediation. Routledge.
Britt, R., Maddox, J., Kanthawala, S., and Hayes, J. (in press). Mobile health, narrative, and data mining strategies for effective interventions. In Kim and Songs (eds.) New Technology for Health-Related Cognitive and Behavioral Change. Elsevier.