HypermediationsStewart Hoover is director of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder.
On June 1, 2020, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, stood in front of an Anglican church across the street from the White House and held up a copy of the Bible for a photograph. This incident became, within days, a signal event in the contentious, roiling history of Trump politics. As […]
The Covid-19 crisis looked like it might be a moment of universal solidarity. Indeed, most Americans (and most others throughout the world) have come together to meet this unprecedented challenge. This has included nearly universal public support for health workers, first responders, and the many, many hourly and casual workers who are keeping the whole […]
I have been working from two directions in the development of our discourse here. The first direction, obviously, is my own work that began in one place, and still is there, but has verged out of that place recently. The second direction, is to use my work, and our conversations to push the development of […]
How would you describe your scholarly background? Early in my career, I saw the field of media and religion as important. But the consensus in that era was that society was becoming more secular. People didn’t take religion seriously, and that was really evident in the fields of media studies and communications. I saw a […]
My project is best understod within the broad framework of cultural studies. I see my task as a scholar to point out things that are “hiding in plain sight” in our cultural-historical geographies of discourse, circulation, meaning and action. This is not a simple task of textual analysis, but instead a deeply consequential inquiry into the […]