Assistant Professor Tyler Rife published an article in the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication

Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Tyler Rife published an article in the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. Titled, “I’m real when I shop my face: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream,” the article aims to contribute to ongoing explorations of glitch feminism and its capacities for resistance against capitalist- and cis-normativity. The article contributes the concept of glitch virality by emphasizing glitch feminism’s circulation across digital, social, and material registers. Through an attendance to glitch virality, the project of glitch feminism is figured as a queer world-making project for those subject to the violences of dominative gendered constructs. To demonstrate this concept, the article features a close reading of the music, visual texts, and multimodal circulations of glitch by electronic artist SOPHIE, whose enactments of glitch feminism demonstrate its viral capacities. 

Rife is an interdisciplinary scholar of critical rhetoric, critical, cultural and environmental communication, and performance studies.