Publications

Books

Billard, Thomas J. 2024. Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.

Billard, Thomas J, and Silvio Waisbord. 2024. Public Scholarship in Communication Studies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Journal articles

Billard, Thomas J. 2016. “Fonts of Potential: Areas for Typographic Research in Political Communication.” International Journal of Communication 10: 4570–4592.

Billard, Thomas J. 2016. “Writing in the Margins: Mainstream News Media Representations of Transgenderism.” International Journal of Communication 10: 4193–4218.

Billard, Thomas J. 2018. “Attitudes Toward Transgender Men and Women: Development and Validation of a New Measure.” Frontiers in Psychology 9 (387). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00387.

Billard, Thomas J. 2018. “Citizen Typography and Political Brands in the 2016 US Presidential Election Campaign.” Marketing Theory 18 (3): 421–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593118763982.

Billard, Thomas J. 2019. “Experimental Evidence for Differences in the Prosocial Effects of Binge-Watched versus Appointment-Viewed Television Programs.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 96 (4): 1025–1051. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019843856.

Billard, Thomas J. 2019. “(No) Shame in the Game: The Influence of Pornography Viewing on Attitudes Toward Transgender People.” Communication Research Reports 36 (1): 45–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2018.1549539.

Billard, Thomas J. 2019. “Out of the Tower and Into the Field: Fieldwork as Public Scholarship in the Face of Social Injustice.” International Journal of Communication 13: 3512–3528.

Billard, Thomas J. 2019. “Setting the Transgender Agenda: Intermedia Agenda-Setting in the Digital News Environment.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 7 (1): 165–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2018.1532302.

Billard, Thomas J. 2021. “Movement–Media Relations in the Hybrid Media System: A Case Study from the US Transgender Rights Movement.” International Journal of Press/Politics 26 (2): 341–361. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220968525.

Billard, Thomas J. 2022. “Deciding What’s (Sharable) News: Social Movement Organizations as Curating Actors in the Political Information System.” Communication Monographs 89 (3): 354–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1999998.

Billard, Thomas J. 2022. “Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States.” Mass Communication and Society 25 (3): 335–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2021.1954197.

Billard, Thomas J. 2023. “‘Gender Critical’ Discourse as Disinformation: Unpacking TERF Strategies of Political Communication.” Women’s Studies in Communication 46 (2): 235–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2193545.

Billard, Thomas J. 2023. “The Origins and Development of the National Transgender Rights Movement in the United States of America.” Journal of Social History 57 (2): 296–318. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad072.

Billard, Thomas J. 2023. “Preserving Transgender History in its Own Right: A Case Study of the Trans Equality Archive.” Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies 2 (1–2): 119–127. http://doi.org/10.57814/956r-p303.

Billard, Thomas J. 2024. “The Politics of Anti-Transgender Health Misinformation.” Political Communication 41 (2): 344–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2303148.

Billard, Thomas J, Traci B. Abbott, Oliver L. Haimson, Kelsey N. Whipple, Stephenson Brooks Whitestone, and Erique Zhang. 2020. “Rethinking (and Retheorizing) Transgender Media Representation: A Roundtable Discussion.” International Journal of Communication 14: 4494–4507.

Billard, Thomas J, Avery R. Everhart, and Erique Zhang. 2022. “Whither Trans Studies? On Fields, Post-Disciplines, and the Need for an Applied Transgender Studies.” Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies 1 (1–2): 1–18. http://doi.org/10.57814/pe84-4348.

Billard, Thomas J, and Rachel E. Moran. 2020. “Networked Political Brands: Consumption, Community, and Political Expression in Contemporary Brand Culture.” Media, Culture & Society 42 (4): 588–604. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719867301.

Billard, Thomas J, and Rachel E. Moran. 2023. “Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in ‘Fake’ News Websites.” Digital Journalism 11 (3): 519–546. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2087098.

Billard, Thomas J, and Erique Zhang. 2022. “Toward a Transgender Critique of Media Representation.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61 (2): 194–199. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2022.0005.

Walter, Nathan, Thomas J Billard, and Sheila T. Murphy. 2017. “On the Boundaries of Framing Terrorism: Guilt, Victimization, and the 2016 Orlando Shooting.” Mass Communication and Society 20 (6): 849–868. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2017.1334071.

Book chapters

Billard, Thomas J. 2019. “‘Passing’ and the Politics of Deception: Transgender Bodies, Cisgender Aesthetics, and the Policing of Inconspicuous Marginal Identities.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication, edited by Tony Docan-Morgan, 463–477. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Billard, Thomas J. 2021. “News Media Representations.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, edited by Genny Beemyn and Abbie Goldberg, 569–572. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781544393858.n196.

Billard, Thomas J. 2024. “Gender Panics, Far-Right Radicalization, and the Effectiveness of Anti-Trans Political Ads.” U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign, edited by Daniel Jackson, Andrea Carson, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Stephanie Edgerly, Einar Thorsen, Filippo Trevisan, and Scott Wright, 33. Poole: The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research.

Billard, Thomas J, and Larry Gross. 2020. “LGBTQ Politics in Media and Culture.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, edited by William R. Thompson. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1263.

Billard, Thomas J, and Brian L. MacAuley. 2017. “‘It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Transgender Superhero!’: Transgender Characters in Marvel, DC, and Image Comics.” In Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children’s Entertainment Media, edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson, 233–252. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Billard, Thomas J, and Sam Nesfield. 2021. “(Re)making ‘Transgender’ Identities in Global Media and Popular Culture.” In Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics, edited by J. Michael Ryan, 66–89. New York: Routledge.

Capuzza, Jamie C., Leland G. Spencer, Thomas J Billard, E. Tristan Booth, matthew heinz, Sarah Jones, and Lucy J. Miller. 2020. “Transing Communication Education: A Chorus of Voices.” In Queer Communication Pedagogy, edited by Ahmet Atay and Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway, 107–129. New York: Routledge.

Jenkins, Henry, and Thomas J Billard. 2018. “Participatory Politics.” In Keywords in Remix Studies, edited by Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough, 230–245. New York: Routledge.

Moran, Rachel E., and Thomas J Billard. 2020. “Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service.” In Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change, edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, 231–240. New York: New York University Press.

Zhang, Erique, and Thomas J Billard. 2024. “Queer and Transgender Media Studies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice, edited by Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo Banjo, 78-86. New York: Oxford University Press.

Essays and reviews

Billard, Thomas J. 2016. Review of Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories, edited by Leland G. Spencer and Jamie C. Capuzza. Journal of Communication 66 (2): E11–E13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12224.

Billard, Thomas J. 2018. “The Crisis in Content Validity Among Existing Measures of Transphobia.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 47 (5): 1305–1306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1191-x.

Billard, Thomas J. 2019. “What Do Queers Do With Media? Two Different Visions of Media Power and LGBTQ Identity.” International Journal of Communication 13: 2073–2077.

Billard, Thomas J. 2020. “On Fitting in the Field: The Place of Social Science in Trans Studies.” TSQ*Now. https://www.tsqnow.online/post/on-fitting-in-the-field-research-on-transamorous-porn-consumption.

Billard, Thomas J. 2024. “Theory and/as Normative Assumptions in Political Communication Research.” Political Communication Report 30.

Billard, Thomas J, Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White, and Naiara Ozamiz-Etxebarria. 2023. “Anti-Transgender Prejudice: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions.” Frontiers in Psychology 14: 1282109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1282109.