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Dr Natalie Coulter

Natalie

Associate Professor, Communication and Media Studies, Canada

Email: ncoulter@yorku.ca

Profile

Natalie Coulter is an Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies and former Director of the Institute for Digital Literacies (IRDL) at York University, Canada. She is leading a SSHRC funded grant on Roblox, and is currently finishing a book entitled Kids, KidTech and Digital Capitalism: The fight for our digital futures to be published in 2025 by Taylor and Francis.

Research

Publications

T. Faber and N. Coulter. Let's Go Make Some Videos!”: Post-Feminist Digital Media on Tween-Coms. Television and New Media. (2023) 10.1177/15274764221150162

S. Neville and N. Coulter. Sounding the Alarm on Alexa and the Eavesmining Industry. Communications Law. (27. 4). (2022)

N. Coulter. ‘Frappés, Friends and Fun.’ Affective labour and the cultural industries of girlhood. Journal of Consumer Culture. 21 (3) pp 487-500. 10.1177/1469540518806954 (2021)

S. Driver and N. Coulter (eds). Youth mediations and affective relations. Palgrave Macmillan: New York. (2019)

N. Coulter. Tweening the girl: The crystallization of the tween market. Mediated Youth Series.Peter Lang: New York. (2014)

Expertise

Children's media, KidTech, Tween girls, Digital capitalism, Consumer culture
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