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.
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