Melanie E.S. Kohnen is a media scholar whose research focuses on how digital media challenge us to rethink diversity in relationship to cultural identities, technological infrastructures, and the media industry. Her book Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race in American Film and Television: Screening the Closet was published by Routledge (November 17, 2015), and her work has also appeared in several anthologies and journals, including Media Industries, Creative Industries, and Journal of Popular Television.
Her current research project maps cultural and technological diversity in the convergence era through an examination of industry discourses, production practices, consumption habits, user-generated content, social media platforms, digital infrastructures, and public policies. She is particularly interested in how the media industry and millennial audiences understand diversity in/and digital entertainment platforms.
Melanie E.S. Kohnen 