Publications
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O’Gara, C. (2026). “congrats on the instagram soft launch of ur boyfriend”: Platform-specificity, cultural production, and theorizing meta-intimate publics. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261421871
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O'Gara, C (2024, September 1). “'This Is Not a Performance': Coming-Out Videos, LGBTQ+ Microcelebrity, and the Tenuous Rise of New Queer YouTube." Camera Obscura 39(116): 189–218. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207867
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O’Gara, C. (2024, Spring). “Snackable, Spreadable, User-Generated Spectacles: Theorizing a “Dream Marriage” Between Sports and Digital Media.” Journal of Sports Media 19(1): 1-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsm.2024.a970124
Conference Presentations
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Scroll Back, Dream Forward: Platforms as Archives and Futures. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 26-29, 2026.
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Open Session. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Seattle, WA, November 6-8, 2025.
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Creator Cultures and Their Precarities. International Communication Association, Denver, CO, June 12-16, 2025.
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Content for Community (and Cash): New Approaches to the Influencer Economy. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, April 3-6 2025.
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Media Diets. Console-ing Passions, Indiana University — Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, June 20-22 2024.
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Revisiting and Rethinking Cultural Producers and Content Creators. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA, March 14-17 2024.
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Theory: The Podcast, the YouTube Video, and the Short Scholarly Video. Theory and Practice of the Video-Essay: an International Conference on Videographic Criticism, University of Massachusetts — Amherst, Amherst, MA, September 22-23 2022.