Publications
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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
Conference Presentations
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Media Diets. Console-ing Passions, Indiana University — Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, June 20-22 2024.
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Revisiting and Rethinking Cultural Producers and Content Creators. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA, March 14-17 2024.
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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
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Undergraduate honors thesis. 2022. Advised by Jennifer Malkowski at Smith College.
Winner of the 2022 Iris Prize.
Available upon request.
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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.
Service
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Velvet Light Trap, 2024-ongoing
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Velvet Light Trap, 2022-ongoing
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Graduate Student Organization, 2023-2024
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Annual poll organized and published via Sight and Sound. December 19, 2023. https://www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-video-essays-2023
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Annual poll organized and published via Sight and Sound. December 18, 2024. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2024