June Macon, PhD

Adjunct Instructor

June Mia Macon, Ph.D., is a Chicago-based communication scholar whose work focuses on the digital economy, culture, race, gender, and forms of labor within the Internet's media ecology. Her dissertation research explores the affordances of Twitch.tv, focusing on Hip Hop DJs, cultural participation, and labor by investigating how Hip Hop DJs' tapped into cultural practices to re-imagine and appropriate a platform that was intended for gamers. She is a Research Associate at Northwestern University’s Humanity and Technoscience Lab, where she works on projects that examine how science and technology impact and interact with humanity. In 2021, she published a book chapter, "DJ’s Gig: Affective Hip Hop Culture and Affordances of Participatory Platforms during a Global Pandemic" in Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19 #Verzuz and Club Quarantine, edited by Dr. Niya Pickett Miller. Dr Macon is currently working on forthcoming book chapter examining the use of AI in Hip Hop.

Courses Taught

COMM 200 - Digital Communication & Society

COMM 213 - Digital Foundations

COMM 318 - Writing for Public Relations

COMM 375 - Media Relations