Publications

  • O'Gara, C (2024, September 1). “'This Is Not a Performance': Coming-Out Videos, LGBTQ+ Microcelebrity, and the Tenuous Rise of New Queer YouTube." Camera Obscura. (39:116) pp. 189–218. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207867

    Free access link

Conference Presentations

  • Media Diets. Console-ing Passions, Indiana University — Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, June 20-22 2024.

  • ​​Revisiting and Rethinking Cultural Producers and Content Creators. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA, March 14-17 2024.

  • Theory: The Podcast, the YouTube Video, and the Short Scholarly Video. Theory and Practice of the Video-Essay: an International Conference on Videographic Criticism, University of Massachusetts — Amherst, Amherst, MA, September 22-23 2022.

Projects

  • Undergraduate honors thesis. 2022. Advised by Jennifer Malkowski at Smith College.

    Winner of the 2022 Iris Prize.

    Available upon request.

  • Ongoing research project concerned with the relationship between CrossFit and digital media, particularly surrounding the CrossFit Games.

    Initiated in 2023 with co-researcher and advisor Jason Lopez.

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