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Preece, Chloe, Rojas-Gaviria, Pilar, Cappellini, Benedetta, Kerrigan, Finola, Hewer, Paul, Higgins, Leighanne and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. Let's ROC: a dynamic experience-based roadmap for relational engagement. European Journal of Marketing 59 (6) , pp. 1503-1520. 10.1108/EJM-04-2024-0333

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. B(l)ack in the Archive and On the Beat. [Online]. Museum of Youth Culture: Museum of Youth Culture. Available at: https://www.museumofyouthculture.com/black-in-the-...

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. Black Life in / and "Alt" Music Subcultures. Self-published / In collaboration with the Museum of Youth Culture.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. Challengers: A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires. European Journal of Cultural Studies 28 (3) , pp. 943-950. 10.1177/13675494241264208

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. "Black Alt", social media, and music sub-genres. [Online]. Museum of Youth Culture: Museum of Youth Culture. Available at: https://www.museumofyouthculture.com/black-alt-soc...

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. Blackness and metal: From Nu-Metal to Baddiecore. [Online]. Museum of Youth Culture. Available at: https://www.museumofyouthculture.com/blackness-nu-...

hill, layla-roxanne and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. Look, don't touch: reflections on the freedom to feel. Inklings, 404 Ink.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Amponsah, Emma-Lee 2025. Demands, displays, and dreams of "Black joy" during times of crisis. Ethnic and Racial Studies 48 (2) , pp. 400-421. 10.1080/01419870.2024.2362461

Williams, J. and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2025. Note to scene: Gender, race and rose-tinted nostalgia in emo. European Journal of Cultural Studies Item availability restricted.

Saha, Anamik, Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Titley, Gavan 2024. The anti-racist media manifesto. The Manifesto Series, Polity.

Smart, Andrew, Williams, Ros, Weiner, Kate, Cheng, Lijiaozi and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2024. Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for COVID-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures. Sociology of Health & Illness 46 (5) , pp. 984-1003. 10.1111/1467-9566.13748

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2024. White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking. European Journal of Cultural Studies 27 (3) , pp. 389-407. 10.1177/13675494231222855

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2024. "He Is a total sweetheart": UK Reality TV and technologies of populist publicity. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63 (2) , pp. 156-161. 10.1353/cj.2024.a919197

lasade-anderson, temi and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2024. Ideology as/of platform affordance and Black feminist conceptualisations of "cancelling": Reading Twitter. Television and New Media 26 (1) , pp. 119-131. 10.1177/15274764241277467

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2024. Big brands are watching you: Marketing social justice and digital culture. University of California Press.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2023. The digital nesting of Black feminism. European Journal of Women's Studies 30 (4) , pp. 399-404. 10.1177/13505068231206213

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Hesmondhalgh, David and Saha, Anamik 2023. Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism: The ambivalence of digital self-branding practices. Sociological Review 71 (6) , pp. 1448-1466. 10.1177/00380261231163952

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2023. I wear my sunglasses to dream: Nope, Black dreaming, and grains of grief. The Arrow 10 (2)

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2023. Black media nostalgia in Britain. Cultural Studies 38 (3) , pp. 434-453. 10.1080/09502386.2023.2261959

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Klein, Bethany 2023. 'Come and get a taste of normal': Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic. European Journal of Cultural Studies 26 (4) , pp. 493-509. 10.1177/13675494221108219

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Basu, Maitrayee 2023. "Beyond BAME, WOC, and 'political blackness'": diasporic digital communing practices. Communication, Culture & Critique 16 (2) , pp. 91-98. 10.1093/ccc/tcad012

Emejulu, Akwugo and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2023. Intersectional vulnerabilities and the banality of harm: the dangerous desires of women of color activists. Meridians 22 (1) , pp. 76-93. 10.1215/15366936-10220491

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Wells, Jaleesa Renee 2023. The poetic identity work and sisterhood of Black women becoming academics. Gender, Work and Organization 30 (2) , pp. 469-484. 10.1111/gwao.12747

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Saha, Anamik and Hesmondhalgh, David 2023. How cultural workers address racism in the digital age. [Project Report]. Self-published.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2022. Consuming crisis: commodifying care and covid-19. Social Science for Social Justice, SAGE.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Kanai, Akane and Zeng, Natasha 2022. The hypervisibility and discourses of 'wokeness' in digital culture. Media, Culture and Society 44 (8) , pp. 1576-1587. 10.1177/01634437221117490

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and hill, layla-roxanne 2022. Black oot here: black lives in Scotland. Blackness in Britain, Bloomsbury.

Rosa-Salas, Marcel and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2022. Hierarchies of knowledge about intersectionality in marketing theory and practice. Marketing Theory 22 (2) , pp. 175-189. 10.1177/14705931221075372

Mimoun, Laetitia, Trujillo-Torres, Lez and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2022. Social emotions and the legitimation of the fertility technology market. Journal of Consumer Research 48 (6) , pp. 1073-1095. 10.1093/jcr/ucab043

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2022. Locating social media in Black digital studies. Devan, Rosen, ed. The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 137-151.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2022. The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices. Celebrity Studies 13 (1) , pp. 130-135. 10.1080/19392397.2022.2026147

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. Cariad [Love]. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46 (4) , pp. 822-824. 10.1111/tran.12491

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. By us, for us? The narratives of Black women in past and present British feminist publishing. Women: A Cultural Review 3-4 , pp. 395-409. 10.1080/09574042.2021.1973763

bruce, keisha, Walcott, Rianna, Kihoro Mackay, Kui, Osei, Krys, lasade-anderson, temitope and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Feminist Media Studies 21 (8) , pp. 1302-1321. 10.1080/14680777.2021.2006737

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Emejulu, Akwugo 2021. The black feminism remix lab: on black feminist joy, ambivalence, and futures. Culture, Theory and Critique 63 (2-3) , pp. 236-243. 10.1080/14735784.2021.1984971

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. Screening Black Lives Matter: on-screen discourses, distortions, and depictions of Black Lives Matter. Feminist Media Studies 21 (5) , pp. 853-856. 10.1080/14680777.2021.1944893

Poole, S., Grier, S., Thomas, F., Sobande, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Ekpo, A., Torres, L., Addington, L., Weekes-Laidlow, M. and Henderson, G. 2021. Operationalizing critical race theory in the marketplace. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing 40 (2) , pp. 126-142. 10.1177/0743915620964114

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Schoonejans, Alice, Johnson, Guillaume D., Thomas, Kevin D. and Harrison, Anthony Kwame 2021. Enacting anti-racist visualities through photo-dialogues on race in Paris. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 40 (2) , pp. 165-179. 10.1108/EDI-01-2020-0019

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. Spectacularized and branded digital (re)presentations of Black people and Blackness. Television and New Media 22 (2) , pp. 131-146. 10.1177/1527476420983745

Linabary, Jasmine R., Cruz, Joëlle M., Allen, Brenda J., Chalupa, Jed August, Dempsey, Sarah E., Glenn, Cerise L., Harris, Kate Lockwood, Long, Ziyu, McDonald, James, Musleh, Samira, Oktaviani, Fitri H., Parker, Patricia S. and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. Envisioning more equitable and just futures: feminist organizational communication in theory and praxis. Management Communication Quarterly 35 (1) , pp. 142-168. 10.1177/0893318920973598

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2021. The internet's 'transnational' boyfriend: digital (re)presentations of celebrity men. Feminist Media Studies 21 (4) , pp. 539-555. 10.1080/14680777.2021.1900312

Thomas, Kevin D., Davis, Judy Foster, Wilson, Jonathan A.J. and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2020. Repetition or reckoning: confronting racism and racial dynamics in 2020. Journal of Marketing Management 36 (13-14) , pp. 1153-1168. 10.1080/0267257X.2020.1850077

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2020. 'We're all in this together': Commodified notions of connection, care and community in brand responses to COVID-19. European Journal of Cultural Studies 23 (6) , pp. 1033-1037. 10.1177/1367549420932294

Memon, Ahmed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-7743, Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Olugboyega, Joy 2020. Podcast as powerful pedagogy. Thomas, Dave and Jivraj, Suhraiya, eds. Towards Decolonising the University: A Kaleidoscope for Empowered Action, CounterPress, pp. 89-100.

Sobande, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Osei, K. 2020. An African city: Black women’s creativity, pleasure, diasporic (dis)connections and resistance through aesthetic and media practices and scholarship. Communication, Culture and Critique 13 (2) , pp. 204-221. 10.1093/ccc/tcaa016

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Mimoun, Laetitia and Torres, Lez Trujillo 2020. Soldiers and superheroes needed! Masculine archetypes and constrained bodily commodification in the sperm donation market. Marketing Theory 20 (1) , pp. 65-84. 10.1177/1470593119847250

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Fearfull, Anne and Brownlie, Douglas 2020. Resisting media marginalisation: black women's digital content and collectivity. Consumption, Markets and Culture 23 (5) , pp. 413-428. 10.1080/10253866.2019.1571491

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2020. The digital lives of black women in Britain. Palgrave Studies in (Re) Presenting Gender, Palgrave Macmillan.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Awkward Black girls and post-feminist possibilities: Representing millennial Black women on television in Chewing Gum and Insecure. Critical Studies in Television 14 (4) , pp. 435-450. 10.1177/1749602019870298

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Memes, digital remix culture and (re)mediating British politics and public life. IPPR Progressive Review 26 (2) , pp. 151-160. 10.1111/newe.12155

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. How to get away with authenticity: Viola Davis and the intersections of Blackness, naturalness, femininity and relatability. Celebrity Studies 10 (3) , pp. 396-410. 10.1080/19392397.2019.1630154

Emejulu, Akwugo and Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, eds. 2019. To exist is to resist: Black Feminism in Europe. Pluto Press.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Dissecting depictions of black masculinity in Get Out. Holland, Samantha, Shail, Robert and Gerrard, Steven, eds. Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film, Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender, Bingley: Emerald Publishing, pp. 237-250. (10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191016)

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Re-meme-bering, Romanticizing and reframing the Obamas online. Lind, Rebecca Ann, ed. Race/Gender/Class/Media - Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 47-50.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Woke-washing: 'intersectional' femvertising and branding 'woke' bravery. European Journal of Marketing 54 (11) , pp. 2723-2745. 10.1108/EJM-02-2019-0134

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Constructing and critiquing interracial couples on YouTube. Johnson, Guillaume D., Thomas, Kevin D., Harrison, Anthony Kwame and Grier, Sonya A., eds. Race in the Marketplace: Crossing Critical Boundaries, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-120.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2018. Accidental academic activism – Intersectional and (un)intentional feminist resistance. Journal of Applied Social Theory 1 (2) , pp. 83-101.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2018. Black Feminist contributions to decolonizing the curriculum. Cupples, Julie and Grosfoguel, Ramon, eds. Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University, Routledge Research in New Postcolonialisms, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 87-99.

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2018. Managing media as parental race-work: (Re)mediating children's black identities. Cross, Samantha N. N., Ruvalcaba, Cecilia, Venkatesh, Attadi and Belk, Russell W., eds. Consumer Culture Theory: Research In Consumer Behavior, Vol. 19. Research in Consumer Behavior, Bingley: Emerald Publishing, pp. 37-53. (10.1108/S0885-211120180000019003)

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2017. Watching me watching you: black women in Britain on YouTube. European Journal of Cultural Studies 20 (6) , pp. 655-671. 10.1177/1367549417733001