Kayla Keener

Graduate Research Assistant

Affect theory, digital media, political economy, labor, critical theory, popular culture

Kayla received her doctorate in Cultural Studies with designated fields of expertise in Affect & Media and Gender & Neoliberal Political Economy from George Mason University.

Selected Publications

Keener, K. (2018). Alternative facts and fake news: Digital mediation and the affective spread of hate in the era of Trump. The Journal of Hate Studies, 14(1), 137-151.

Keener, K. (2018). Affect, aesthetics and attention: The digital spread of fake news across the political spectrum. In L. Zhang & C. Clark (Eds.), Affect, Emotion, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Communication, New York: Routledge.

Courses Taught

EDCI 597: LGBTQ Issues in Education

COMM 302: Media Theory

COMM 101: Fundamentals of Communication

CULT 320: Globalization and Culture

INTS 312: Images and Experiences of Childhood: Social Construction, Literature, and Film