All Stories

  1. “Beyond BAME, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”: diasporic digital communing practices

    Article • Communication Culture and Critique, April 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Francesca Sobande

  2. Arts Marketing, Social Justice Activism, and Government Messaging in the Age of Social Media

    Article • November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  3. ‘Come and get a taste of normal’: Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic

    Article • European Journal of Cultural Studies, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Sobande

  4. Locating Social Media in Black Digital Studies

    Article • January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  5. The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices

    Article • Celebrity Studies, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  6. The Black Feminism Remix Lab: on Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures

    Article • Culture Theory and Critique, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  7. Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain

    Article • Feminist Media Studies, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  8. Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies

    Article • Feminist Media Studies, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  9. Book Review: Distributed blackness: African American cybercultures

    Article • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Sobande

  10. By Us, for Us? Past and Present Black Feminist Publishing Narratives and Routes

    Article • Women a Cultural Review, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  11. Cariad [Love]

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, September 2021, Wiley

    Francesca Sobande

  12. The poetic identity work and sisterhood of Black women becoming academics

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, August 2021, Wiley

    Francesca Sobande

  13. Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market

    Article • Journal of Consumer Research, August 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Francesca Sobande

  14. Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness

    Article • Television & New Media, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Sobande

  15. Enacting anti-racist visualities through photo-dialogues on race in Paris

    Article • Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, November 2020, Emerald

    Francesca Sobande

  16. An African City: Black Women's Creativity, Pleasure, Diasporic (Dis)Connections and Resistance Through Aesthetic and Media Practices and Scholarship

    Article • Communication Culture and Critique, May 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Francesca Sobande

  17. The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Sobande

  18. Woke-washing: “intersectional” femvertising and branding “woke” bravery

    Article • European Journal of Marketing, December 2019, Emerald

    Francesca Sobande

  19. Awkward Black girls and post-feminist possibilities: Representing millennial Black women on television in Chewing Gum and Insecure

    Article • Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Sobande

  20. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Digital Media & Policy, September 2019, Intellect

    Francesca Sobande

  21. How to get away with authenticity: Viola Davis and the intersections of Blackness, naturalness, femininity and relatability

    Article • Celebrity Studies, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  22. Soldiers and superheroes needed! Masculine archetypes and constrained bodily commodification in the sperm donation market

    Article • Marketing Theory, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Sobande

  23. Dissecting Depictions of Black Masculinity inGet Out

    Article • February 2019, Emerald

    Francesca Sobande

  24. Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power, by LouisHyman and JosephTohill. Cornell University Press, New York, 2017, 380 pp., ISBN: 978-1771131445, Price £20.99, paperback.

    Article • British Journal of Industrial Relations, February 2019, Wiley

    Francesca Sobande

  25. Resisting media marginalisation: Black women’s digital content and collectivity

    Article • Consumption Markets & Culture, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  26. Praising, erasing, replacing and race-ing Girls

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Sobande

  27. Managing Media as Parental Race-Work: (Re)mediating Children’s Black Identities

    Article • January 2018, Emerald

    Francesca Sobande

  28. “Intersectional Digital Dynamics and Profiled Black Celebrities”

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Sobande

  29. Watching me watching you: Black women in Britain on YouTube

    Article • European Journal of Cultural Studies, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Sobande