Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	137
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	98
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	72
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	72
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	70
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	65
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	50
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	43
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	40
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	39
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	39
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	38
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	36
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	33
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	33
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	33
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	32
Media and cultural systems: Connecting national news dynamics and the cultures of social problems through a case study of climate change in the U.S. and U.K.	30
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	29
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	28
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	25
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	24
Can the other be heard?	23
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	22

The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	21
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	21
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	20
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	19
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	19
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	18
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	18
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	18
A mask between you and me	18
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	17
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	17
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	17
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	16
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	15
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	15
Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice	14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	14
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	13
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	13
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	13
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	12
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	12
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	12
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	12
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	12
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	12
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	11
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	11
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	11
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	11
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	11
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	11
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	10
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	10
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	10
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	9
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	9
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	9
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	9
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	9
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	9
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	9
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	9
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	9
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Standpointing global communication	8

On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	8
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	8
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	8
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	8
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7
Martín-Barbero’s style	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	7
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	7
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	7
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	7
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	6
Leaving North Korea: Illicit cultural globalization and mediated migration in the digital age	6
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	6
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	6
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	6
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest	6
Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television	6
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	6
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	6
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	6
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	6
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	6
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	6
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	6
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	5
On the Wire: Analysing the evolution of BBC Local Radio, music radio and public service broadcasting	5
Journalism as profession helping women in conflict to move beyond victimhood discourse: A case study of Kashmir	5
The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa	5
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi’s charismatic avatar	5
Streaming culture and a new wave of institutionalisation of audience measurement in China	5
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	5
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	5
A new algorithmic imaginary	5
“Refugees from Ukraine are called humans”: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish tweets about Ukrainian refugees	5
Audiovisual production in Brazil: Will its public support survive the new political scenario?	5
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	5
The habitus of misogyny: Bourdieu and the institutionalization of sexist abuse in the video games industry	5
“I remember, I saw, I knew”: Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts	5
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV	5
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic	5
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes	5
Audiences of distant suffering in authoritarian regimes: Denial mechanisms and acts of moral justification	5
Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction	5
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	5
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	5
Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon	5
Rethinking telepresence: post- and pre-COVID-19	5
Is rooting for the US Women’s National Team un-American? Populism and popular misogyny within conservative digital sports media	5
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	4
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	4
Visualizing femicide in the print media: A comparison of Italy and the UK	4
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	4
Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships	4
Dependence in the online screen industry	4
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method	4
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	4
Digital divide revisited during and beyond COVID-19	4
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	4
Female voices in Spanish sports media: The case of Marca and Mundo Deportivo	4
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era	4

“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	4
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	4
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	4
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right	4
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	4
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	4
Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy	4
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians	3
South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance	3
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	3
Ordinary lives – Extraordinary journeys: Television entertainment from game shows to reality TV	3
‘Unrelenting passion and selflessness’: Theorising the affective labour of community radio practitioners	3
Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies	3
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship	3
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal	3
The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe	3
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises	3
In search of a queer language in contemporary India: Languages ‘upside down’ as resistance to Euro-American universalisms	3
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	3
Domesticating WhatsApp: Female fertility society performers and health promotion in the Gambia	3
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough	3
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	3
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation	3
The experience of racism amongst practitioners of colour in the advertising industry	3
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	3
‘Another conspiracy about a royalty-free song’: Library music in contemporary political discourse	3
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance	3
The value of public service media: What does the public expect?	3
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China	3
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses	3
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	3
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement	3
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	3
Public service television in the age of subscription video on demand: Shifting TV audience expectations in the UK during COVID-19	3
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	3
Pivot or perish: hazards of selling clothes on Instagram	3
Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalism	3
Connecting the last mile in Africa: A volumetric analysis of internet balloons and rural base stations	3
Selling in place: the home as virtual storefront	3
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel	3
Two tales about the power of algorithms in online environments: on the need for transdisciplinary dialogue in the study of algorithms and digital capitalism	3
How diplomacy matters to cultural production: A case study of China’s Korean limitation order and Korean television	3
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	3
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests	3
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)	3
Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal	2
Hi Mama! Daycare apps and the mediatization of parenting and care work	2
“Alone on the road”: Loneliness among digital nomads and the use of social media to foster personal relationships	2
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	2
Between affection and control: Chinese migrant mothers’ motherhood practices based on the mediated one-dimensional visibility of home cameras	2
Mediating emergencies: Defining the relationship between intimate and distant disaster communication models	2
Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring	2
‘It’s like sunk cost fallacy or something they call it’: The role of symbolic, social and economic capital in worker motivations for staying in the UK television production sector	2
“An out gay man in the parliament”: New aspects in the study of LGBTQ politicians’ media coverage	2
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe	2
Authentic cult: media representations of cultural consumption and legitimization of cultural hierarchies	2
Kitchen sink dramas and the search for common culture: a comparative analysis of migrant domestic worker abuse in Hong Kong’s English and Chinese-language news media	2
‘The national media just sees Muslims as if they are not people like us’: The alternate social imaginaries of local journalists reporting on Muslims	2
Encoding/decoding in artificial intelligence: Global AI and local languages	2
Situated ethics: Ethical accountability of local perspectives in global AI ethics	2
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	2
Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown	2
Shelter skelter: record stores during the pandemic and the new selling of old stuff	2
Sorella’s Story : Holocaust awareness among generations, through technology and empathy	2
Loving strangers, avoiding risks: Online dating practices and scams among Chinese lesbian (lala) women	2
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	2
Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign	2
Social media feeds as curatorial assemblages: A conceptual framework	2
Queer Indonesia: What’s queer about queer studies in Indonesia?	2
No success no queer: Burnout queerness for queer female entrepreneurs in post-socialist urban China	2
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures	2
Turning (and tuning in) to rural media: Exploring the role of identity, place, and participation in locating community radio	2
Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times	2
Why mainstream news media still matter	2
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	2
Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’	2
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	2
Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers	2
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication	2
Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict	2
Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality	2
Fostering resilience: Community radio and disaster communication in Odisha, India	2