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, 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.

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, 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.