Conference Presentations

Kuehn, K. M. (2019, May). ‘I always make sure to wear my best flannel’: Gender performativity in the craft beer scene. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA). Tulane University, New Orleans.

Kuehn, K. M. (2018, September). Business as usual? A Discourse analysis of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) Conference on Journalism, Media and Surveillance. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.

Kuehn, K. M. (2018, June). From ‘Dump the Trump’ IPA to ‘(Im)peach Saisons’: Anti-Trump ‘craftivism’ in the global craft beer industry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Kuehn, K. M. & Parker, S. (2018, June). One of the blokes: Brewsters, branding & gender (in)visibility in New Zealand’s craft beer industry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Kuehn, K. M. (2017, November). Branding the brewster: Negotiating authenticity and gender in the era of craft capitalism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA), Massey University, Wellington.

Kuehn, K. M. (2017, July). I spy with the smallest eye: Post-Snowden discourses of mass surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Communications Association (ANZCA), University of Sydney, Sydney.

Kuehn, K. M. (2016, June). The digital aesthetics of work’s seduction: Representing intern labor on Instagram. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association. Villanova University, Philadelphia.

Kuehn, K. M. (2016, June). The should’ve turned the lights out!: The economics of mediated voyeurism in the Christchurch office sex romp scandal. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association. Villanova University, Philadelphia.

Kuehn, K. M. (2015, June). The ‘price of the club’: Surveillance, security and contested citizenships in contemporary New Zealand. Workshop presented at Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Conference. Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.

Kuehn, K. M. (2015, June). Digital footprint analysis: A digital privacy workshop. Paper presented at Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Conference. Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.

Kuehn, K. M. & Daubs, M.  (2014, October). The holy trail: rethinking ‘value’ in google’s ubiquitous mapping project. Paper presented at Media Ubiquity: Spaces, Places and Networks. University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Kuehn, K. M. (2014, July). Belabouring the labour debates: Interrogating theories of work in the creative and digital economies. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

Kuehn, K. M. (2013, October). Branding the local: Anti-corporate resistance in online consumer reviews. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Association of Internet Researchers. University of Denver, Denver, CO.

Kuehn, K. M. (2013, October). ‘I don’t need the exposure, I need to pay rent!’: A critical case study of hope labor dynamics in the Nate Thayer/Atlantic debate. Paper presented at the meeting of The Union for Democratic Communications. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Kuehn, K. M. (2013, October). Nice career? Possibilities and challenges for critical academic, activist and media workers. Roundtable contributor at the meeting of The Union for Democratic Communications. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Kuehn, K. (2013, June). Communities of Resistance: Consumer reviewing as commodity activism. Research presented at Beyond the Brand (Popular Communication Pre-Conference) at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association. London, England.

Kuehn, K. (2013, March). Home/Work or Hope labor? Social media pedagogy and the future worker. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. 

Kuehn, K. (2012, October). Watching others watch me: Analyzing relations of power, self/other surveillance and the regulation of bodies on College ACB and Like A Little. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Association of Internet Researchers. University of Salford, Manchester, England.

Kuehn, K. (2012, August). Homework or Hope Labor? Examining the implications of social media in the classroom for liberal arts pedagogy and the future worker. Paper presented at the University Faculty Conference on Research and Scholarship. Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA.

Kuehn, K. (2012, May). The 2010s: On-Line consumer reviewing as resistance. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ.

Kuehn, K. & Corrigan, T. (2012, May). Hope labor: The role of employment prospects in the practice and structure of voluntary online content production. Paper presented at the meeting of the Union for Democratic Communications, Tallahassee, FL.

Kuehn, K. (2012, May). Managing the self, streamlining the brand: A critical analysis of third-party dashboards. Paper presented at the meeting of the Union for  Democratic Communications, Tallahassee, FL.

Kuehn, K. (2011, November). Beyond business: Perceptions of consumer reviewing amongst local business owners. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

Kuehn, K. (2011, October). I think therefore I Yelp: Prosumption, consumer-citizenship and the local on Yelp.com. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Internet Researchers, Seattle, WA.

Kuehn, K. (2011, August). Local 2.0: New media, advertising and the emerging local web. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Saint Louis, MO.

Kuehn, K. (2010, November). Participatory consumption on Yelp.com. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Kuehn, K. (2010, October). Producing the local: The political economy of local listing sites. Paper presented at the meeting of the Union for Democratic Communications, University Park, PA.

Kuehn, K. (2008, July). Do U YouTube? Online communities and the development of an electronic citizenry. Paper resented at the meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kuehn, K. (2008, May). Compassionate consumerism: Healing Africa through Gap’s Product (RED) Campaign. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec.

Hardin, M., Kuehn, K., Jones, H., Balaji, M., & Genovese, J. (2008, May). Have you got game?’ Hegemonic masculinity and neo-homophobia in sports coverage of John Amaechi. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec.

Kuehn, K. (2008, April). Internet killed the television star: Joost and the future of web-based TV. Poster presented at the meeting of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV.

Kuehn, K. (2008, March). Rise up: The commodification of blackness in David LaChapelle’s RIZE. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Woraprongs, W., Kuehn, K., & Cramer, B. (2007, November). Internet addiction and student behavior in wired classrooms. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Kuehn, K. (2007, April). Passion of the price: Why Hollywood doesn’t make biblical epics. Paper presented at the meeting of the Popular Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA.

Woraprongs, W., Kuehn, K., & Cramer, B. (2007, February). Internet addiction and student behavior in wired classrooms. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Mid-Winter Conference), Reno, NV.

Kuehn, K. (2005, April). What would we be without wishful thinking? The discourse of the satellite radio “revolution.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Tucson, AZ.