Professor Malin’s research covers a range of contemporary and historical topics in order to understand the myriad ways in which people’s identities are constituted by and through the media. Malin’s first book, American Masculinity Under Clinton: Popular Media and the Nineties “Crisis of Masculinity”, explores conceptions of masculinity offered by a wide range of sources from the 1990s and early 21st century. Drawing together analyses of such popular culture examples as Friends, Titanic, and The Sopranos, and such political sources as Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, The Starr Report, and the debates surrounding September 11th, Malin illustrates how a rhetoric of masculine crisis has been used to support a range of economic, political, and cultural aims. His second book, Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America, investigates how changes in communication technology change how people think about emotion. Focusing primarily on the early 20th century U.S. and exploring such diverse technologies as radio and the psycho-galvanometer, this book demonstrates how a set of assumptions about emotion came to dominate popular and academic thinking about the media as well as how these assumptions continue to shape our understanding of communication. Outside of these two books, Malin’s research has explored a variety of other historical and contemporary issues, from the media research of early 20th century psychologist Carl Seashore to the notions of masculinity depicted on the police drama The Shield, and from 19th century court cases regarding the telegraph to arguments about the democratic possibilities of the Internet.