Publications

“There is a multiplicity of purposes, needs, and contexts that frame viewers’ roles, interpretive resources, and modes of reception. Let us not dismiss and diminish those who do not fit with our field’s current dominant tendencies”

The Fourth Wall and ‘The Wall’: GoT’s Reception in Argentina, Spain, and Germany, 2021, p. 15.

“Aside from corporate interests, the most insightful elements of reception processes must lie by users, audiences, and fans themselves and the uses and benefits they draw from them”

The Fourth Wall and ‘The Wall’: GoT’s Reception in Argentina, Spain and Germany, 2021, p. 5

García-Rapp, F. and León L. (2023)  #MADRES. Parodic Motherhood Discourses on Peruvian TikTok, Visual Communication Quarterly, 30 (4), pp. 14-32.

García-Rapp, F. (2022) “Teaching and Learning Popular Media Cultures: Fostering enquiry journeys within the messy world of human social life”, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 9 (1), online

García-Rapp, F. (2022) “The fourth wall and ‘The Wall’: GoT’s reception in Argentina, Spain, and Germany”, Television and New Media, 23 (3), pp. 293-311

García-Rapp, F. (2021) “From the books to the screens, to the memes and beyond: Fans’ notions of Game of Thrones as an adaptation”, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 17 (3), pp. 217-237.

García-Rapp, F. (2019) “Trivial and Normative? Online Fieldwork within YouTube’s Beauty Community”, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 48 (5), pp. 619-644

García-Rapp, F. (2018) “My Friend Bubz: Building Intimacy on YouTube’s Beauty Community”, In: Andreassen, R., Petersen, M., Harrison, K., Raun, T., “Mediated intimacies. Connectivities, relationalities and proximities“, pp. 282-295, Routledge, London   

García-Rapp, F. (2017) “Come join and let’s BOND”: Authenticity and Legitimacy Building on YouTube’s Beauty community, Journal of Media Practice, 18 (2-3), pp. 120-137

García-Rapp, F. and Roca-Cuberes, C. (2017) “Being an online celebrity – Norms and expectations of YouTube’s beauty community”, First Monday, 22 (7), July Issue 2017 

García-Rapp, F. (2016) “Popularity Markers on YouTube’s Attention Economy: The Case of Bubzbeauty”, Celebrity Studies, 8 (2), pp. 228-245

García-Rapp, F. (2016) “The Digital Media Phenomenon of YouTube Beauty Gurus: The Case of Bubzbeauty”, International Journal of Web Based Communities, 12 (4), pp. 360-375

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