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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)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Limov, B. (2026). “Sneaking in” and “carving out” as reparative praxis: Navigating conditional solidarity at media industry events to catalyze industry transformation. Communication, Culture and Critique. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcag020
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
Edited Contributions (Book Chapters, Journal Special Issues)
Limov, B. (2026). “Weird Austin”: The attraction of local event imaginaries for global industry networks. In A. Spicer & P. McDonald (Eds.), Media industries and cities: Perspectives, geopolitics, transformations. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003498438-15
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.