Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas, and counterpublics in the digital sphere	88
Innovation through anachronism: The Pony Express, media, and American modernities	60
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	53
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	41
Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	39
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	38
Flying the skies to wire the seas: Subsea cables, remote work, and the social fabric of a media industry	35
A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts’?	35
Japanese scandals and their production	31
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	31
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	29
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	29
The politics of platform folklore: Emotion, identity, and sense-making in far-right populist Twitter communities	28
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	27
Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration	27
Eating alone as psychological self-care: How the younger generation in Let’s Eat survives in neoliberal South Korea	27
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	25
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	24
Standpointing global communication	23
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	23
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	21
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe	21
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	19
Local fiction series: the value of European Public Service Media (1990–2020)	18

Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality	18
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	17
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	17
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	16
Mimicking the mimics: problematizing cover performance of Filipino local music on social media	15
The use of animation in NGOs’ audio-visual communication about solidarity and migration	14
Recognition for resistance: Gifting, social media, and the politics of reciprocity in South Korean energy activism	14
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	14
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	13
Between invisibility and having a voice: The marginalization of gendered non-fiction writers in the South Korean television industry	13
The wellbeing of ordinary people in factual television production	13
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	13
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	12
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	12
‘I’m also slightly conscious of how much I’m listening to something’: Music streaming and the transformation of music listening	12
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication	12
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	12
Indigenous dance, cultural continuity, and resistance: A netnographic analysis of the Palestinian Dabke in the diaspora	11
Re-meme-bering Tiananmen? From collective memory to meta-memory on TikTok	11
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	11
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	10
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	10
Dependence in the online screen industry	10
Transcending failure: A study on the “failed domestication” of online news for young visually impaired people in China	9
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	9
Review essay: Perils of aggregating a global zeitgeist	9
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	9
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	9
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	9
From the main-melody story to gaming experience: is the Chinese digital game arena a potential counterpublic sphere?	9
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	9
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	9
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	9
When the war strikes back: TikTok’s domestication of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict among youth	9
Unpacking news consumption and trust decisions through a folk theory approach: A study of Austrian young adults	9
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation	8
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	8
Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988	8
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era	8
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict	7
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	7
Evolving yet contentious transcultural fanscapes: Peruvian fans’ accounts of K-pop and its fandoms	7
Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers	7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	7
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7

Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	7
The times of jeopardising free speech	7
Sugar and spice (and everything nice?): Japan’s ambition behind Lolita’s Kawaii aesthetics	7
Calls from Beyond the Walls: prison cellphone recordings during the pandemic in Lebanon	7
Poland as Gilead. Pop culture fiction and performative protests in the era of the pandemic	7
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	7
‘What a funny looking video’: Using allegorical representations of technological change to reflect on future digital communication and design challenges	6
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	6
Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign	6
Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus	6
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	6
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	6
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.	6
Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring	6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	6
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	5
Authentic cult: media representations of cultural consumption and legitimization of cultural hierarchies	5
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	5
“More dangerous than sharks”: Cellspace, death, and pathologies of the selfie*	5
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	5
Analyzing gender capital in Grand Theft Auto social media conversations	5
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	5
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	5
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	5
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	5
Shelter skelter: record stores during the pandemic and the new selling of old stuff	5
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	5
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	5
Between affection and control: Chinese migrant mothers’ motherhood practices based on the mediated one-dimensional visibility of home cameras	5
Europe is not like you see on TV! Ramadan drama as a platform of education on Harga in Tunisia	5
“An out gay man in the parliament”: New aspects in the study of LGBTQ politicians’ media coverage	5
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	5
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	4
Moderating for a friend of mine: Content moderation as affective reproduction in Chinese live-streaming	4
“What is your digital identity?” Unpacking users’ understandings of an evolving concept in datafied societies	4
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	4
Misinformation’s missing human	4
Loving strangers, avoiding risks: Online dating practices and scams among Chinese lesbian (lala) women	4
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	4
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel	4
Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown	4
Mediating emergencies: Defining the relationship between intimate and distant disaster communication models	4
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	4
Techno-cultural domestication of online Tarot reading in contemporary China	4
Why mainstream news media still matter	4
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	4
Crowdfunding (as) disinformation: ‘Pitching’ 5G and election fraud campaigns on GoFundMe	4
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	4
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	4
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	4
Sorella’s Story: Holocaust awareness among generations, through technology and empathy	4
Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India	4
Muslim like us: mobilizing minority identities in popular Australian entertainment media as sites of transnational representation	4
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises	4
Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’	4
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	3
Platform ecosystems, market hierarchies and the megacorp: The case of Reliance Jio	3
Hermeneutics for an anti-hermeneutic age: What the legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero means today	3
Appearing to disappear: Ordering visibility in a Turkish border spectacle	3
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	3
Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh	3
Manufacturing scents: Unveiling the mediated nature of scent-based communication	3
Martín-Barbero’s style	3
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	3
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough	3
Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia	3
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	3
The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia	3
Framing the Israel-Palestine conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN’s coverage from a peace journalism perspective	3
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	3
Straight and cisgender actors playing queer and trans characters: the views of Australian screen stakeholders	3
Cross-cultural approaches to creative media content in the age of AI	3
‘Up to you’: Self-help books, depression and the reconstruction of reading	3
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	3
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	3
Digital subscribers: Between freedom and constraint	3
Overseas media, homeland audiences: examining determinants of newsmaking in Deutsche Welle’s Amharic Service	3
Review essay: When we talk about platforms and culture, what are we talking about?	3
Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports	3

The value of public service media: What does the public expect?	3
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	3
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	3
Selling rural China: The construction and commodification of rurality in Chinese promotional livestreaming	3
What’s not talked about: a content analysis of health issues in Black-oriented magazines	2
Algorithmic photography: a case study of the Huawei Moon Mode controversy	2
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	2
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	2
AI as the companion: The gendered role and technological imagination of the intelligent voice assistant in China	2
Chinese media production and fandom between queerbaiting and “survival instincts”	2
Functions of background music among prisoners and staff in the Chinese prison workplace	2
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	2
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	2
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	2
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	2
Combining motherhood and work in the creative industries: Mothers have the problem	2
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	2
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	2
Envisioning a credit society: social credit systems and the institutionalization of moral standards in China	2
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	2
Dudes, boobs, and GameCubes: Video game advertising enters adolescence	2
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	2
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	2
Sellers, Shifters, Sharers & Science Communicators: The initial beliefs and positions of fitness influencers and creators on Instagram	2
Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times	2
The algorithm knows I’m Black: from users to subjects	2
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	2
Remapping spatiality in contemporary East Asian media engagement: reevaluating China’s Got Talent	2
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	2
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	2
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China	2
#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	2
Multilayer intermediation: Exploring the organization of cultural intermediaries in social media entertainment	2
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	2
Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey	2
Zimbabwean news media discourses on the intersection of abortion, religion, health and the law	2
Crosscurrents: Welfare	2
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	2
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	2
Reflecting on cultural labour in the time of AI	2
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	2
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	2
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	2
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	2
The remains of the disappeared: digital melancholia and Ensaaf (justice)	1
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	1
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	1
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement	1
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	1
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests	1
Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency	1
Trauma and digital media: Introduction to crosscurrents special section	1
More than keyboard heroes? #ichoosefish, disaster framing, and environmental protests in Vietnam	1
Mediatisation and the construction of what is morally right and wrong in contemporary business	1
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship	1
Philosemitism in contemporary German media	1
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	1
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	1
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	1
Corrigendum to “[Crosscurrents: Welfare]”	1
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	1
Internet blackouts in Meghalaya: A case of emerging complexities in the digital age	1
Decolonising public service television in Aotearoa New Zealand: telling better stories about Indigenous rurality	1
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	1
Between headlines and hunger: Media framing of food poverty on the island of Ireland	1
Cultural politics of Netflix in local contexts: A case of the Korean media industries	1
The smart TV in low-income migrant households: Enabling digital inclusion through social and cultural media participation	1
A historical turn in the study of media governance. A research agenda for Europe in times of democratic crisis	1
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)	1
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	1
Experience machines for well-being? Understanding how social media entertainment matters for teens	1
Share with care: negotiating children’s health and safety in sharenting practices	1
The streaming industry and the platform economy: An analysis	1
A new algorithmic imaginary	1
Struggling for the right to struggle: Cultural workers’ labour rights and unions	1
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance	1
Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media	1
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	1
Gender, party and performance in the 2020 New Zealand general election: politicking on Facebook with Jacinda and Judith	1
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	1
Where are the working class in the British film industry? Data from the British Film Institute	1
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	1
Roots and trajectories: Essays on the legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero in global communication studies	1
The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe	1
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	1
Melancholic media: virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic	1
Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	1
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey	1
Mapping a pluralistic continuum of approaches to digital disconnection	1
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	1
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	1
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	1
South African tabloid coverage of Covid19: The Daily Sun	1
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	1
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	1