Ben Aslinger

Ben Aslinger

Teaching Interests

Media Studies;
Gender/Sexuality and Media;
Media Industries;
Global/Transnational Media

Research Interests

Media Studies;
Gender/Sexuality and Media;
Media Industries;
Global/Transnational Media

Awards and Honors

  • Deans' Fund for International Travel, Bentley University
  • Valente Center Humanities Research Seminar Faculty Fellow, Valente Center, Bentley University
  • Deans Fund for International Travel, Bentley University
  • Innovation In Teaching Award, Bentley University
  • Deans Fund for International Travel, Bentley University
  • Valente Center for Arts and Sciences, Bentley University
  • Publication Award, Bentley University
  • Bentley University Publication Award

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles

  • Aslinger, B. S. (2014). Clueless about Listening Formations?. Cinema Journal, (53) 3 126-131.
  • Aslinger, B. S., Huntemann, N. B. (2013). Digital Media Studies Futures. Media, Culture & Society, (35) 1 12-Sep.
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2010). Video Games for the ‘Next Billion’?: The Launch of the Zeebo Console. The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television 66 15-25.
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2009). Blogotheques and Black Cabs: Popular Music and Urban Place. Flow, (9) 10 (Link)
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2009). Creating a Network for Queer Audiences at Logo TV. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, (7) 2 107-121.
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2009). Soundalikes and Disrupted Pleasures. Flow, (9) 5 (Link)
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2008). The Sounds and the Business of Mobile Music. Flow, (9) 2 (Link)

    • Books

  • Halegoua, G. R., Aslinger, B. S. (2015). Locating Emerging Media New York, NY: Routledge
  • Huntemann, N. B., Aslinger, B. S. (2013). Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Place New York, NY: Palgrave

    • Book Chapters

  • Aslinger, B. S. (2026). 'Taiwan, This is for You!' Nymphia Wind, Rethinking Homonationalism, and Liminal Mediated Diplomacy The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Transnationalism. New York: Routledge
  • Aslinger, B. (2026). Nymphia Wind, Imperial Drag, and Queer Sinophone Celebrity Crossovers The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity. New York: Routledge
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2018). Queer Labor Time for Solutions! Addressing Gender Barriers in the Workplace. New York: Greenleaf Publishing/Routledge
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2013). Risk, Innovation, and Gender in Media Conglomerates Routledge Companion to Media and Gender. New York, NY: Routledge
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2013). Nip/Tuck: Popular Music How to Watch Television: Media Criticism in Practice. New York, NY: New York University Press
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2013). ‚ÄúIt‚Äôs Not That Easy For Two Men to Be a Couple‚Äù: Revisiting Gay Dating in Will & Grace and Queer as Folk Queer Love in Film and Television. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2013). Make Room for the Wii: Game Consoles and the Construction of Space A Companion to New Media Dynamics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Aslinger, B. S., Huntemann, N. B. (2013). Introduction Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Place. New York, NY: Palgrave
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2013). Redefining the Console for the Global, Networked Era Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Place. New York, NY: Palgrave
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2012). You Can Ring My Bell and Tap My Phone: Mobile Music, the Ringtone Economy, and the Rise of Apps The Mobile Media Reader. New York, NY: Peter Lang
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2012). WorldSpace Satellite Radio and the South African Footprint Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2010). PlanetOut and the Dichotomies of Queer Media Conglomeration LGBT Identity and Online New Media. New York: Routledge
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2008). Rocking Prime Time: Music, the WB, and Teen Culture Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press

    • Conference Proceedings

  • Aslinger, B. S. (2010). “Managing Media Production in the Age of Convergence (roundtable convener and participant)” University of Texas Austin, TX
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2010). “Roundtable chair and participant on games and media literacy” University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI
  • Aslinger, B. S., Huntemann, N. (2010). “Developing Design Literacies Through Play” University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2009). “Genre in Genre: The Role of Music in Music Games”

    • Presentations

  • Aslinger, B. (2025). “Drag Race and Queer and Trans Net Worth” Presented at the Society for Cinema Media Studies Society for Cinema and Media Studies Chicago, IL
  • Aslinger, B. (2025). “"Taiwan, This is for You!": Nymphia Wind, LGBTQ Identities, and Rethinking Homonationalism” Presented at the Consoleing Passions Consoleing Passions: The International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism Atlanta, GA
  • Aslinger, B. (2025). “What Constitutes Success for Queer and Trans Media Productions in the Streaming Era?” Presented at the Swinburne University New Directions in Media Studies: Affect, Approaches, Audiences (a half-day symposium) Melbourne, Australia
  • Aslinger, B. (2024). “Lessons from the Search Committee” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Professional Development Committee Lessons from the Search Committee Online
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2023). “How It Started‚ How It's Going: LGBTQ Televisual Representations and the Horizon of Critique” Presented at the London School of Economics Media Futures conference London, UK
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2023). “Dinner Tables, Belonging, and Tales of the City” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference Denver, Colorado
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2022). “Queer Affects and Networked Fitness” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Virtual
  • Aslinger, B. S. (2020). “Not Simply Sweet Nothings: Talk, Recorded Sound, and Intimacy in Weekend” Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Boston, MA

    • Reviews

  • Aslinger, B. S. (2014). MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne. , (31) 1

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Committee Member for External Relations Committee 2024-09-01 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Search Committee for Tenure-Track Teaching Professor 2022-12-01 - 2023-04-30
  • Committee Chair for Search Committee for Lecturer in Communication Studies 2022-01-01 - 2022-12-31
  • Committee Chair for Search Committee 2018-10-01 - 2019-04-30
  • Committee Chair for Search Committee 2018-10-01 - 2018-12-31
  • Committee Member for Search Committee, English and Media Studies 2017-09-01 - 2018-02-28
  • Committee Member for Search Committee, English and Media Studies 2016-09-01 - 2017-02-28
  • Committee Member for Curriculum Committee 2016-01-01 - 2019-05-31
  • Committee Member for Research and Pedagogy Committee 2016-01-01 - 2019-05-31
  • Committee Member for Search Committee 2014-01-01 - 2015-02-28
  • Committee Chair for Media and Culture Committee 2013-01-01 - 2015-07-31
  • Committee Member for Search Committee 2013-01-01 - 2014-12-31
  • Committee Member for Search Committee 2011-09-15 - 2012-03-31
  • Committee Member for Media and Culture Committee 2008-01-01 - 2015-12-31

    • Service: Professional

  • Committee Member for Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2024-09-01 - 2025-12-15
  • Board member for Consoleing Passions 2024-01-01 - Present
  • Reviewer for Sexuality & Culture 2024-01-01 - 2024-12-31
  • Editorial Review Board Member for Sexualities 2023-03-01 - Present
  • Committee Member for Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2022-10-01 - 2023-01-30
  • Mentor for Queer and Trans Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2020-01-01 - Present
  • Blurb writer for EUP Monograph for Edinburgh University Press 2019-01-01 - 2019-12-31
  • Committee Member for Boston Cinema/Media Seminar Advisory Board 2019-08-01 - Present
  • Editorial Review Board Member for The Velvet Light Trap 2018-01-01 - 2020-12-31
  • Committee Chair for Nominating Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2018-01-01 - 2018-12-31
  • Committee Member for Nominating Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2017-01-01 - 2020-12-31
  • Officer, Other Officer for Queer Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2017-08-01 - 2018-07-31
  • Officer, Other Officer for Queer Caucus, Society of Cinema and Media Studies 2016-09-01 - 2017-08-31
  • Officer, Secretary for Queer Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2015-09-01 - 2016-08-31
  • Mentor for Society for Cinema and Media Studies Alex Doty Queer Caucus Mentorship Program 2013-01-01 - 2017-12-31
  • Committee Member for Boston Media Studies Collective 2008-01-01 - Present

    • Service: University

  • Committee Member for Sabbatical Committee 2025-07-01 - Present
  • Program Director for Co-Coordinator, Creative Industries Major 2024-07-01 - Present
  • Committee Member for Faculty Activity Reporting Platform Review Committee 2022-01-01 - 2023-12-31
  • Committee Member for Promotion and Tenure Platform Review Committee 2022-01-01 - 2023-12-31
  • Committee Member for Faculty Affairs Committee 2021-01-01 - 2023-12-31
  • Administrative Assignment, Other for Joint Chairs 2021-01-01 - 2023-06-30
  • Committee Member for Communications Sequence Design Group (Curriculum) 2021-01-01 - 2021-12-31
  • Committee Member for Commencement Speaker Committee 2020-01-01 - 2021-12-31
  • Mentor for PRIDE and LGBTQIA+ Student Mentor Program 2020-01-01 - 2021-12-31
  • Mentor (Faculty) for First Year Seminar 2019-08-01 - 2019-12-31
  • Faculty Fellow for Valente Center Humanities Research Seminar 2018-09-01 - 2019-05-31
  • Co-leader for Reading & Engagement Across Disciplines (READ) 2018-01-01 - 2020-12-31
  • Mentor (Faculty) for First Year Seminar 2018-08-01 - 2018-12-31
  • Committee Member for Undergraduate Curriculum Advisory Group 2018-01-01 - 2018-12-31
  • Mentor (Faculty) for First-Year Seminar 2017-09-01 - 2017-12-31
  • Department Chair for English and Media Studies 2017-07-01 - 2023-06-30
  • Mentor (Faculty) for Valente Center Undergraduate Research Fellow 2017-01-01 - 2018-12-31
  • Internal faculty member of the seminar for Valente Center Humanities Seminar 2016-01-01 - 2017-04-30
  • Mentor (Faculty) for First Year Seminar Advisor 2016-01-01 - 2016-12-31
  • Task Force Member for Signature Work Task Force 2016-01-01 - 2017-12-31
  • Administrative Assignment, Other for Creative Industries Major co-coordinator 2016-07-01 - 2017-06-30
  • University Senate for Faculty Senator for Department of English and Media Studies 2016-07-01 - 2017-06-30
  • for First Year Student Advisor 2014-01-01 - 2015-12-31
  • Committee Chair for Faculty Affairs Committee 2014-07-01 - 2015-06-30
  • Committee Member for Diversity Council 2014-08-01 - 2014-12-31
  • Committee Member for Research Colloquium Committee 2014-04-01 - 2014-11-30
  • Committee Member for Faculty Affairs Committee 2013-07-01 - 2015-06-30
  • Administrative Assignment, Other for Valente Center for Arts and Sciences 2013-07-01 - 2014-06-30
  • Committee Member for Teaching and Scholarly Awards Committee 2011-10-15 - 2013-04-30
  • Committee Member for LGBTQ Committee 2012-01-01 - 2018-12-31
  • Student Organization Advisor for WBTY Bentley Radio 2010-01-01 - 2016-12-31
  • Committee Member for International Film Series Committee 2009-01-01 - Present