Research
In-Progress Research
I am currently working on projects examining:
- Drag queens/artists/performers and live streaming
- Gay porn performers, audiences, and social media microcelebrity [AoIR 2020]
- Sexual content moderation, platform governance, and queer digital sexual cultures [AoIR 2021]
Journal Articles
Persaud, C. J., & Perks, M. E. (2022). Beauty From the Waist Up: Twitch Drag, Digital Labor, and Queer Mediated Liveness. Television & New Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764221080912
Delano, I., Glenhaber, M., Kim, D.O., Lanz, P., Mischie, I., Quick, T., Peterson-Reed, K., Persaud, C.J., Pham, B., Reddy, R., Rivera, J., Williams, E. L., Jenkins, H., and Shresthova, S. (2021). Flying cars and bigots: projecting post-COVID-19 worlds through the atlas of the civic imagination as refuge for hope. Continuum, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2021.2003303
Baym, N. K., Bergmann, R., Bhargava, R., Diaz, F., Gillespie, T., Hesmondhalgh, D., Maris, E., and Persaud, C. J. (2021). Making Sense of Metrics in the Music Industries. International Journal of Communication.
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17635
Shaw, A. and Persaud, C.J. (2020) Beyond Texts: Using Queer Readings to Document LGBTQ Game Content. First Monday. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i8.10439
Baym, N. K., Wagman, K., and Persaud, C.J. (2020). Mindfully Scrolling: Rethinking Facebook after Time Deactivated. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120919105
Shaw, A., Lauteria, E.W., Yang, H., Persaud, C.J., & Cole, A.M. (2019). Counting Queerness in Games: Trends in LGBTQ Digital Game Representation, 1985-2005. International Journal Of Communication, 13, 26. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9754
Book Reviews
Persaud, C.J. (2022). Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming. Gender & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432221078525
Persaud, C.J. (2020). Video Games Have Always Been Queer. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820903976