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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With Dr. Sarah Edwards. Internet and Computing Histories, Archives, and Memory. Regenerations: Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference. Mexico City, Mexico. October 14-17.
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Friction at the Seam: Embodiment, Craft and Visibility. QGrad 2026: UCLA’s 29th Annual Queer & Trans Studies Graduate Student Research Conference. Los Angeles, CA, October 9.
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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.
Project Assistant Work
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Summer and Fall of 2026.
In this position, I facilitated the development of a new NEH-funded research group, The Center for Humanistic Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Uncertainty (AI&U), under the direction of Faculty Director Jeremy Morris, who is also my PhD advisor. This position has involved designing, launching, and managing AI&U’s official logo, website, and newsletter using Adobe Express, WordPress, and Eloqua. I have also fulfilled a range of administrative responsibilities, including contacting affiliated organizations across campus, editing fellowship application calls, organizing applicant data, and managing event calendars.
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Summer of 2023 and 2024.
In this role, I collaborated with my MA advisor Jason Lopez on an ongoing research project about the CrossFit Games, sports media, social media, and audienceship. This position required me to conduct ethnographic research surrounding the 2023 CrossFit Games, including gathering, annotating, and analyzing interviews with more than 30 industry professionals, coaches, athletes, and fans.