Kathryn Claire Higgins
Books
2023
Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt
2023
Credibilidad: Por Qué No Se Cree Las Mujeres
Sarah Banet-Weiser & Kathryn Claire Higgins, Barlin Libros. Translated in Spanish by Daniel Esteban Sanzol. Available from Barlin Libros.
In Preparation
Victimcould: Vulnerability Politics, Media, and the Imaginary Future
Kathryn Claire Higgins. Currently being written with the support of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication.
Journal Articles
Visual Communication
Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events
Higgins, K.C. (2022) 'Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events.' Visual Communication, online first, available here.
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Winner of the 2021 Top Student Paper award, 71st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Visual Communication Studies Division
Television and New Media
Television and the 'honest' woman: mediating the labor of believability
Banet-Weiser, S. & Higgins, K.C. (2022) 'Television and the 'honest' woman: mediating the labour of believability', Television and New Media, 23(2), p. 127-147, available here.
Journalism
"Nobody feels safe": vulnerability, fear, and the micro-politics of ordinary voice in crime news television
Higgins, K.C. (2021) '"Nobody feels safe": Vulnerability, fear. and the micro-politics of ordinary voice in crime news television', Journalism, 23(10), p. 2114-2131, available here
Feminist Media Studies
Sensing the (in)visible: domestic cleaning and cleaners on Mumsnet Talk
Orgad, S. & Higgins, K.C. (2021) 'Sensing the (in)visible: domestic cleaning and cleaners on Mumsnet Talk', Feminist Media Studies, online first, available here
Journal of Gender Studies (forthcoming)
Liars, scammers and cheats: con(fident) women and post-authentic femininities on television
Banet-Weiser, S. & Higgins, K.C. (forthcoming). 'Liars, Scammers and Cheats: Con(fident) Women and Post-Authentic Femininities on Television.' Journal of Gender Studies.
In Preparation
Beyond copaganda: criminalization as a (mediated) politics of vulnerability
Winner of the 2022 Top Student Paper Award, 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division
Book Chapters
Cruel benevolence: vulnerable menaces, menacing vulnerabilities, and the white male vigilante trope
Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. Edited by Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge. Available online here.
The post-truth of rape
forthcoming, with Sarah Banet-Weiser. Popular Truth and Consequences: Critical Approaches to Post-Truth Crises (Routledge). Edited by Jayson Harsin.
Other Writing
Blogs, Book Reviews, Popular Media
Media@LSE Blog
Polity Blog
Media@LSE Blog
Media@LSE Blog
Progressive International
Media@LSE Blog
International Journal of Communication
Contemporary Issues in Teaching and Learning
Contemporary Issues in Teaching and Learning