Research

Presentations & Conference Appearances

  • SCMS 2025 – The platform as a social safety net: care(lessness) and the attention economy

    April 5, 2025

    Ideologies of caring and the algorithm. What happens when contemporary ideas about care collide with the attention economy? Presentation for SCMS 2025 in Chicago, presented remotely.

Media appearances

This Morning with Stacey Brotzel

April 4, 2025

Appearance on the popular 880 CHED radio show to discuss deeper meanings behind a White Lotus clip going viral on TikTok.

Publications

Below is a small sampling of recent publications. Please don't hesitate to reach out for additional writing samples or the most up-to-date publications.

Paulsen Mulvey, Alora, and Jessalynn Keller. 2023. “Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram.” Social Media + Society, 9(4). Link

Thomas, Andrew, Alora Paulsen Mulvey, Dana Cramer, and Amanda Zanco. 2021. “Graduate Students' Exploration of Opportunities in a Crisis: A White Paper.” Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication, Special Issue: Crisis!: 51-66. Link

Keller, Jessalynn, and Alora Paulsen Mulvey. 2020. “This Halloween, Witches Are Casting Spells to Defeat Donald Trump and #WitchTheVote in the U.S. election.” The Conversation Canada, October 29, 2020. Link

Paulsen Mulvey, Alora. 2019. “#Femtalk and Beauty Hauls: Selling the Self on YouTube.” Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication, Special Issue: CCA 2018 Conference Proceedings: Graduate Papers. Link