Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation	72
Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok: transformation, power relationships, and platformization of video entertainment in China	68
Access granted: Facebook’s free basics in Africa	53
After the post-public sphere	53
Rebel with a cause: the framing of climate change and intergenerational justice in the German press treatment of the Fridays for Future protests	52
Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies	51
‘Absentmindedly scrolling through nothing’: liveness and compulsory continuous connectedness in social media	37
Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19	37
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	37
The virtual stages of hate: Using Goffman’s work to conceptualise the motivations for online hate	37
Nothing to disconnect from? Being singular plural in an age of machine learning	35
English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work	30
De-territorialized digital capitalism and the predicament of the nation-state: Netflix in Arabia	29
Digital labour: an empty signifier?	29
The turn to regulation in digital communication: the ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry and Australian media policy	28
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK	28
Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety	26
Mutual affordances: the dynamics between social media and populism	26
The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection	25
Vinyl won’t save us: reframing disconnection as engagement	25
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	23
Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces	23
Coextensive space: virtual reality and the developing relationship between the body, the digital and physical space	23
Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports	22
Dealing with digital: the economic organisation of streamed music	22

The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	21
Climate extraction and supply chains of data	20
Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television	20
Social media dissidence and activist resistance in Zimbabwe	20
Understanding and interpreting algorithms: toward a hermeneutics of algorithms	20
Misogynoir in women’s sport media: race, nation, and diaspora in the representation of Naomi Osaka	19
Facebook and politics in Africa: Zimbabwe and Kenya	19
Hiding hate speech: political moderation on Facebook	18
Remembering COVID-19: memory, crisis, and social media	17
The politics and perils of dis/connection in the Global South	17
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System	17
Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale	17
Right-wing populism and the criminalization of sea-rescue NGOs: the ‘Sea-Watch 3’ case in Italy, and Matteo Salvini’s communication on Facebook	16
The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa	15
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	15
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference	15
Post-gay television: LGBTQ representation and the negotiation of ‘normal’ in MTV’sFaking It	15
Digital mourning on Facebook: the case of Filipino migrant worker live-in caregivers in Israel	15
Domesticating dating apps: Non-single Chinese gay men’s dating app use and negotiations of relational boundaries	14
Pathway outta pigeonhole? De-contextualizing Majority World Countries	14
A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The cases of Alibaba and Tencent	14
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	14
13 Reasons Why: can a TV show about suicide be ‘dangerous’? What are the moral obligations of a producer?	14
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	13
The institutional basis of anglophone western centrality	13
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	12
Media framing of COVID-19 pandemic in the transitional regime of Serbia: Exploring discourses and strategies	12
Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps	12
Domestication outside of the domestic: shaping technology and child in an educational moral economy	12
Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey	12
“Dangerous organizations: Facebook’s content moderation decisions and ethnic visibility in Myanmar”	12
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	11
Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism	10
Toward a non-binary sense of mobility: insights from self-presentation in Instagram photography during COVID-19 pandemic	10
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	10
Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies	10
Marginality and otherness: the discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media	10
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture	10
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	10
Hierarchies of deservingness and the limits of hospitality in the ‘refugee crisis’	10
Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory	10
BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society	10
Fake news as fake politics: the digital materialities of YouTube misinformation videos about Brazilian oil spill catastrophe	10
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	10
Traces of orientalism in media studies	9
Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive	9
Defusing moral panic: Legitimizing binge-watching as manageable, high-quality, middle-class hedonism	9
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	9
Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families	9
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey	9

#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	9
Friction-free authenticity: mobile social networks and transactional affordances	8
Digital games, developing democracies, and civic engagement: a study of games in Kenya and Nigeria	8
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	8
The conquest of the world as meme: memetic visuality and political humor in critiques of the hindu right wing in India	8
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	8
From concrete walls to digital walls: transmedia construction of place myth in Ihwa Mural Village, South Korea	8
Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	8
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	8
Radio via mobile phones: the intersecting logics of media technologies in Ghana	7
Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus	7
Google’s lens: computational photography and platform capitalism	7
Social media in Uganda: revitalising news journalism?	7
Not quite an echo chamber: ethnic debate on Ethiopian Facebook pages during times of unrest	7
From repression to oppression: news journalism in Turkey 2013–2018	7
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	7
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	7
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	7
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	7
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	7
Journalism matters: reporting peace in Cyprus	7
From scheduling to trans-programming	7
Camping it up and toning it down: gay and lesbian sexual identity in media work	6
Encounters with Western media theory: Asian perspectives	6
Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube	6
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	6
Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa	6
Dual ambivalence:The UntamedGirls as a counterpublic	6
Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries	6
How to think about media policy silence	6
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	6
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	6
Sinclair broadcasting as mini-media empire: media regulation, disinfomercials, and the rise of Trumpism	6
Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia	6
Translating a Chinese approach? Rural distribution and marketing in Ghana’s phone industry	5
Social personalities in sports: an analysis of the differences in individuals’ self-presentation on social networks	5
French theoretical and methodological influences on Brazilian journalism research	5
The politico-commercial nexus and its implications for television industries in Bangladesh and South Asia	5
Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media	5
Opinions that matter: the hybridization of opinion and reputation measurement in social media listening software	5
Media and information literacy for developing resistance to ‘infodemic’: lessons to be learnt from the binge of misinformation during COVID-19 pandemic	5
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	5
Reflections on the inheritances of Indymedia in the age of surveillance and social media	5
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	5
Television and Black Twitter in South Africa: Our Perfect Wedding	5
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	5
Cultural politics of Netflix in local contexts: A case of the Korean media industries	5
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	4
The criminal trial as a live event: Exploring how and why live blogs change the professional practices of judges, defence lawyers and prosecutors	4
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	4
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	4
The algorithm knows I’m Black: from users to subjects	4
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	4
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	4
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	4
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	4
Themes and tones of cannabis news reports and legalization outcomes	4
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	4
Algorithmic photography: a case study of the Huawei Moon Mode controversy	4
Loving strangers, avoiding risks: Online dating practices and scams among Chinese lesbian (lala) women	4
How news went guerrilla marketing: a history, logic, and critique of brand journalism	4
Indymedia in Belgium: the delicate balance between media activism and political activism	4
Towards the engagement economy: interconnected processes of commodification on YouTube	4
From user-generated content to a user-generated aesthetic: Instagram, corporate vernacularization, and the intimate life of brands	4
Platform ecosystems, market hierarchies and the megacorp: The case of Reliance Jio	4
“Why attacking the Bureau of Industry and Commerce?”: news value flow to news comments on Chinese social media	4
Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	4
Disability and the implication of coaccessibility: a case study on accessibility to the media in Turkey	3
Mind the (cultural) gap: International news channels and the challenge of attracting Latin American audiences	3
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	3
Connecting the individual and theotherin disconnection studies	3
Economic Life: global capital, financial journalism, and independent media	3
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	3
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	3
Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	3
A [White] Cyborg’s Manifesto: the overwhelmingly Western ideology driving technofeminist theory	3
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	3
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	3
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV	3
Time for a change: women, work, and gender equality in TV production	3

Power geometries of mediated care: (re)mapping transnational families and immobility of the Rohingya diaspora in a digital age	3
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	3
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	3
Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India	3
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	3
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	3
Media against communication: media/violence and conditionalities of Muslim silencing in Northern India	3
The future of televisions, a response	3
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle	3
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	3
Dudes, boobs, and GameCubes: Video game advertising enters adolescence	3
Digital media as a driver of change in political organisation: 2010 and 2015 UK general elections	3
Audience-metric continuity? Approaching the meaning of measurement in the digital everyday	3
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	3
From the main-melody story to gaming experience: is the Chinese digital game arena a potential counterpublic sphere?	3
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	2
Crosscurrents: Welfare	2
Extensions after Man: Race, Counter/insurgency and the Futures of Media Theory	2
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	2
The limits of representation activism: analyzing Black celebrity politics in LeBron James’The Shop	2
Indymedia legacies in Brazil and Spain: the integration of technopolitical and intersectional media practices	2
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	2
Writing between the ‘red lines’: Morocco’s digital media landscape	2
Fat women, performance and subversive commodification on Ghanaian reality television	2
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	2
From asymmetric dependency to discursive disengagement: How social movements and the media/public talked past each other	2
‘A powerful, spiritual, win-win situation’: commercial authenticity in professional birth photography	2
Exploring data journalism practices in Africa: data politics, media ecosystems and newsroom infrastructures	2
Share with care: negotiating children’s health and safety in sharenting practices	2
Critical celebrations of independent media centers 20 years on	2
Mediatisation and the construction of what is morally right and wrong in contemporary business	2
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	2
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	2
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	2
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	2
Regimes of temporality: China, Tibet and the politics of time in the post-2008 era	2
Virtual reality and celebrity humanitarianism: Rashida Jones in Lebanon	2
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	2
Two tales about the power of algorithms in online environments: on the need for transdisciplinary dialogue in the study of algorithms and digital capitalism	2
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	2
Space as the ideological state apparatus (ISA): the invisible fetter on social movements in China	2
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	2
Whitewashing diverse voices: (de)constructing race and ethnicity in Spanish-language television dubbing	2
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	2
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	2
Computer game as a pragmatic concept: ideas, meanings, and culture	2
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	2
Old and new questions for the public sphere: historicizing its theoretical relevance in post–Cold War South Korea	2
Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh	2
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	2
Normative foundations of media welfare: Perspectives from the Nordic countries	2
The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia	2
Disinformation after Trump	2
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The boy on the beach: Shifts in US policy discourses on Syrian asylum following the death of Alan Kurdi	2
Indymedia and the long story of rebellion against neoliberal capitalism	2
Framing safety of women in public transport: A media discourse analysis of sexual harassment cases in Bangladesh	2
Political discussion as a propaganda spectacle: propaganda talk shows on contemporary Russian television	2
South African tabloid coverage of Covid19: The Daily Sun	2