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Dissertation
Limov, B. (2024). Media Industry Events as Platforms for Social Justice: Moving from Inspiration to Impact in Creative Production. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin]. Texas ScholarWorks.
Recipient of a 2025 Cultural and Critical Studies Division Outstanding Dissertation Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Refereed Publications
Varma, A., Masullo, G., Limov, B., Graham, E., Kim, M. S., & Malik, K. K. (2025). “My body, my choice” versus “officials say” Examining the effects of solidarity and monitorial reporting. News Research Journal, 46(2), 210-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/30497841251317293 (Original work published 2025)
Limov, B. (2023). Platforming inclusion at U.S. media industry events: Confronting Hollywood’s lack of representational diversity. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 40(4), 227–241. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2245440
Varma, A., Limov, B., & Cabas-Mijares, A. (2023). “They always get our story wrong”: Addressing social justice activists’ news distrust through solidarity reporting. Media and Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i4.7006
Riedl, M.J., Strover, S., Cao, T.*, Choi, J.*, Limov, B.*, & Schnell, M.* (2022). Reverse-engineering political protest: The Russian Internet Research Agency in the heart of Texas. Information, Communication & Society, 25(15), 2299–2316. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1934066 (*indicates equal contributions)
Limov, B. (2020). Click it, binge it, get hooked: Netflix and the growing U.S. audience for foreign content. International Journal of Communication, 14, 6304–6323. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/download/16343/3301
Invited Contributions
Hobbins-White, P.*, & Limov, B.* (2020). SXSW, Amazon, and the difficulty of staging an exclusive event online. NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, 9(2), 329-338. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15325 (*indicates equal contributions)
Limov, B. (2021). Zoom, cinema, and the transnational Q&A. In Media Res: A Media Commons Project. http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/zoom-cinema-and-transnational-qa-0
Select Conference Presentations
AEJMC 2023 Critical Cultural Studies Division Top Papers Panel
Limov, B. (2025, July 13-17). “Sneaking in” and “carving out”: Navigating the conditional solidarity of progressive neoliberalism at media industry events [Paper presentation]. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Media Production Analysis Working Group (MPA), Singapore.
Limov, B. (2025, June 12-16). Social justice as programming practice at media festivals: Leveraging scale and community for industry transformation [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association (ICA), Media Industry Studies Interest Group, Denver, CO, USA.
Cabas-Mijares, A., Varma, A., & Limov, B. (2025, June 12-16). Missing the point: Evaluating journalist-source relationships through the experiences of social justice workers [Extended abstract]. International Communication Association (ICA), Journalism Studies Division, Denver, CO, USA.
Jensen, J.T., Limov, B., & Strover, S. (2025, May 9). Platform labor: Organizational stability for some, instability for the masses. Data & Society, “What is Work Worth” 2025 Workshop, Virtual.
Limov, B. (2024, April 16–19). Media festivals and creative labor: Advancing equity and inclusion through trade rituals. [Paper presentation]. Media Industries 2024. London, UK.
Varma, A., Limov, B., & Cabas-Mijares, A. (2023, August 7–10). “They always get our story wrong”: Addressing social justice activists’ news distrust through solidarity reporting. [Top Faculty Paper for the Critical Cultural Studies Division]. AEJMC, Washington, D.C.
Limov, B. (2023, June 19-21). ‘Weird Austin’: Local event imaginaries and global industry networks in Austin, Texas, 2020-2023. [Paper presentation]. Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places. London, UK.
Limov, B. (2022, July 8). Contextual turn or big data turn? On the potential for computational methods within ethnography [Extended abstract presentation]. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Pre-conference, Big Data in Communication Research: A Contextual Turn?, Suzhou, China.
Limov, B. (2022, July 11-15). Informal activist infrastructures: Comm tech for grassroots organizing and movement building [Paper presentation]. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (CAM), Beijing, China.
Limov, B., Riedl, M.J., Santillana, M., Strover, S. (2022, May 26-30). Defund or refund? How local journalists cover police reform and backlash [Extended abstract presentation]. International Communication Association (ICA), Journalism Studies Division, Paris, France.
Limov, B. (2022, March 31-April 1). Film festivals and community activism: On the potential for affective mobilizations [Paper presentation]. In A. Damiens (Chair), Empirical Approaches to Film Festivals: Theory/Method/Practice. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, IL.
Roskos, J. (co-chair), Robé, C. (co-chair), Li, Z.,* Limov, B.,* Seewood, A.,* Tailor, V.* (2022, March 31-April 1). Praxis what you preach: Tactics and strategies for critical media pedagogy on the 21st century college campus [Workshop]. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, IL. (*indicates equal contributions)
Limov, B. (2021, March 17-21). SXSW, Indie Meme, and COVID-19: Community disruption and virtual reconnection in the Austin festival experience [Paper presentation]. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Virtual.
Limov, B. (2020, August 6-9). Click it, binge it, get hooked: Netflix and the growing U.S. audience for foreign content [Top Student Paper for the Entertainment Studies Interest Group]. AEJMC, San Francisco, CA.
Limov, B. (2019, October 25-27). Film festivals and soft power: The Belt and Road Initiative at the Shanghai International Film Festival [Paper presentation]. Global Fusion, The University of Texas at Austin, United States.