Feminist Media Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Feminist Media Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web71
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews37
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media37
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture33
Gender “frames” in media: select examples of popular feminism and popular misogyny from India31
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”27
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution25
Factors influencing occupational gender segregation of videojournalists in Taiwanese TV news channels25
Microcelebrity around the globe: approaches to cultures of internet fame25
Affective reading practices in Chinese women-oriented online fiction: The politics of identification23
Making girls at home in games: Nancy Drew computer games and the racial politics of girls’ game spaces22
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign21
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives21
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby20
Positioning gender in time-travel: time-travel TV dramas as dialogic resources for constructing and re-imagining identity among Mainland Chinese postgraduates in Hong Kong19
The darker side of feminist scholarship: how online hate has become the norm19
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances19
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly18
Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s16
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer & Feminism in Praxis16
Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen16
Gender-equal sexism: a covert and subtle form of gender discrimination15
“The Story of You and Me”: strategic ambiguity in the paratextual reception of Kim Ji-Young, Born 198215
Tennis representations in the 20th-century Brazilian press: women’s bodies in focus15
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices: the case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)15
Epistemologies of ignorance in constructions of fairness and biology: the online swimming community responds to Lia Thomas’ inclusion in women’s swimming events14
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show14
“What a nasty girl!” incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions14
Gold diggers in the digital age: Unraveling the “Lao Nü” stereotype in contemporary Chinese social media14
Correction14
“Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: humorous motherhood counter-discourse13
WhatsApp and participation in sexual and reproductive health for women with disabilities in Nairobi13
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence13
The blame game: how video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse13
“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities12
Barbie in China: feminist ideals or consumerist realities on RedNote?12
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies: an exploratory analysis12
Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms12
Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance: the Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)11
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media11
Diya : coerced abortion and reproductive autonomy in India11
Women on top? Challenging the “mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick11
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV11
The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal10
Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 210
The affective circulation of the feminist movement via the hashtag #seAcabó and its portrayal in the traditional digital media10
Sex Work in Popular Culture10
“The victim lived an intense life”: media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus10
Have a cup of coffee: the techno-spatial tactics of female urbanites and the production of “mobile publicness” in digital urban China10
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder9
Conceptualizing academic sustainability9
“Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: imaginaries of a post-violent AI world9
Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence9
Comparing nüquanzhuyi and nüxingzhuyi : mapping digital feminist discourse in China through corpus analysi9
African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT)8
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary8
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War8
Has feminism “gone too far?” A mixed-methods exploration of perceptions of digital feminist activism8
Until death do us part: gendered media coverage of the deaths of Israeli male and female public figures8
Feeling the future: Wonder Woman discourse and the demands of media response8
The “emotional contract”: on obligation and guilt in women influencers’ work with brands8
Suffering as the counter-discourse: the construction of an affective community through feminist podcasts in China8
“Locked, loaded, and online”: gendered critiques of Israeli security through the lens of female gun owners8
Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Sticking around: hobbyhorsing, digital transgression, and gender-based violence in TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube commentary7
From margins to mainstream: a critical network analysis of the #MosqueMeToo hashtag7
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism7
Neoliberal feminism and intergenerational relations at work: an analysis of media representations of feminist mentorship in popular culture7
From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name7
Protection or commodification of women? Discursive construction of bridewealth on Chinese social media7
Correction7
Over-excitement, shapeless self and paradoxical happiness in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015–2019)7
Provocative eroticism: anger in fourth-wave feminist Danish pop culture6
Consumer responses to femvertising: evidence from a cross-cultural study6
Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media6
Reading the queer in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”6
“Fair-skinned, young and slim” or “Kardashian-style”: UK-based female Chinese international students’ self-presentation on mobile dating applications6
Fighting in the shadow of heteropatriarchy: feminists versus gay men’s discursive battle over surrogacy in China6
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: the case of Malaysian former-Muslim women6
“By women for women” communicating gender discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy6
#RepresentationMatters on TV: a critical textual analysis of intersectional representation at work on NBC’s Superstore6
How horror films constructs Blackness: examples of White supremacist media’s enforcement of necropolitics in genre film6
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times6
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China6
Persistent racialized commodification amidst technological innovation: exceptionalist Filipina bride representations from analog to digital6
Gendered framing and victim-blaming in fictional sexual assault survivor portrayals6
“She’s everything”: feminism and the Barbie movie6
“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana6
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation6
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)5
Art-based research, decoloniality & gender-based violence: Voices of women students from India5
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V5
What does the tradwife movement have to do with superheroes? A review of the depiction of the tradwife movement in Gen V5
Calling out or calling in? Feminist CCIs negotiate BLM, cancel culture, and activist selves online5
Working the case: a feminist and queer investigation of the Asian/American female detective in Killing Eve5
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’5
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature5
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture5
Gender, power and magic in the film of Mulan (2020): a cross-cultural analysis of the Western feminist discourse and the Daoist cultural discourse5
Veteran journalists and “vieilles filles”: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch5
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms by Andrea L. Press and Francesca Tripodi5
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence5
Alternative fairy-tale endings and the main character syndrome: “happily ever after” for the woke generation5
“Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing”5
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok5
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports5
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping5
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media5
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring5
Bargaining with patriarchy or converting men into pro-feminists: social-mediated frame alignment in feminist connective activism5
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China5
The womb as battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese social media5
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims5
Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave5
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland5
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism4
Narratives of relationality and time in fertility preservation vlogs4
Women’s safety work on dating apps and rape culture4
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”? Tracing the implications of a song in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)4
You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs4
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances4
Being a positive influence(r): exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram4
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China4
Structural-violence framing, de-gendering discourse, and muted misogyny: the official media’s representation of gender-based violence in contemporary china4
“The women are every bit as good as the men”: a postfeminist critique of LPGA players’ quest for equity in golf4
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel4
Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts4
Perfect: feeling judged on social media, a roundtable discussion4
Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan4
Banning “braingasm”: an investigation of misogynistic politics in 8Chan’s, U.S. platforms’ and CCP’s regulation of ASMR4
The platformization of socially constructed gender realities: the ‘Fat Cat incident’ (2024)4
Rage as a strategy of weak resistance and creative power in women’s protests and digital activism in postsocialist Poland4
Mickey’s main squeeze: the gendered portrayal of Minnie Mouse in the early era (1928 – 1935) and modern era (2013 – 2019)4
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality4
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)4
Comedy as method: gender discourse production in Chinese women’s stand-up comedy interpretive communities4
Archiving digital activism against sexual violence: the challenges for ethical witnessing in research practice4
Fascism, nature and communication: a discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda4
Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze4
The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen4
Sacred children, self-sacrificing mothers: Instagram’s idealized parenting culture4
When the hunter plays the hunted: heterosexual Chinese women’s negotiations with hegemonic sexual scripts on dating apps4
Window shopping in barbie land: the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)4
Watching National Treasure , creating danmei tongren : stories of power and the power of stories4
Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other4
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace4
Co-categorizing Chinese “medicine girls”: a multimodal membership categorization analysis of trans women’s representations in a news video4
From romancing women to teaching men: an analysis of vulnerability and entrepreneurial masculinity on Japanese YouTube in The Roland Show4
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China4
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China4
Tactics of diversity? Exploring self-care dilemmas among feminist activists on Instagram4
“Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the Joss Whedon fan community4
Reconstructing professional identity: Chinese female interpreters in traditional and self-media4
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets3
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace3
“Normal confident guys”: Chinese female stand-up comedians performing, triggering, and commercializing the “female complaint”3
Contemporary Queer Chinese Art3
Circulating desire: queer logistical aesthetics3
Not alone: a queer reading of Enola Holmes3
“Manufacturing princesses”: the illusion of consumerism and the masquerade of pseudo-feminism in light photography3
Gendered representation of human trafficking and transforming patriarchal configurations in China: a mixed-methods analysis of People’s Daily , 2011–20243
“I have always said that I am not a feminist, but…”: moderate feminism in the narratives of Finnish women journalists who entered the field between 1960 and 19903
Surveillance media technology and news coverage of stranger violence against women in Australia3
Post-feminism and the “mind”: the mental makeover paradigm3
A feminist critical discourse analysis of Nepali feminist hashtag movements on social media3
When ‘atypical’ is the new typical: a critical analysis of the representation of virginity among neurodivergent men characters in TV series3
Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users3
From a slap to a punch: preparing Hermione Granger for postfeminist Hollywood3
Beauty police: the construction and implementation of beauty standards in Romanian news TV3
Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship3
Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt3
Gendered keywords as entry points: the construction and evolution of nüpin and nüxing-xiang in Chinese Internet literature3
Barbie as eve: feminist theology and Greta Gerwig3
The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals3
Privileged underdogs: the heterotopias and anti-political correctness of upper-class men in a Swedish digital space3
Strategic mouthing of words: the Chinese bromance drama Word of Honor , censorship and gender stereotypes3
Listening to women’s personal stories about suicide: an online thematic analysis of the discourse on UK parenting forum Mumsnet3
Decolonial interventions and rethinking normativity: Towards alternative paradigms of feminist knowledge and power3
Bedroom eyes: women dressing and redressing in The Best Years of Our Lives3
Social media as a counter-public sphere? Chinese feminist activism empowered by hashtags3
Anxiety in defining the older woman in contemporary British television drama: Gold Digger (BBC one, 2019—) and Flesh and Blood (ITV, 2020—3
The rise of trans-exclusionary feminism in South Korea: popular feminism and the mediation of women’s bodies3
The power of vulnerability: women stand-up comedians’ triumph through self-deprecation3
The temptation of performing cuteness: Shirley Temple’s birthday parties during the Great Depression3
Reality television and the promotion of problematic behavior among cast members: a case study content analysis through the lens of feminist and media framing theories3
Un(veil)ing context collapse: #hijab3
Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran3
Margarita, the Big Bad Wolf, and the film censor: film, feminism, and dictatorial repression in Spain3
Being independent women in blogs: young Chinese women bloggers’ construction of independent persona and strategic subjectivity on Xiaohongshu3
Reality television dating with participants aged 65+: constructing empowered older women and “less than” older men in Hotel Romance3
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south3
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: discursive contradictions in the feminist critiques of pro-feminist men3
Inability to love: change of intimate structure in the documentary Hard love3
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India3
Migrant mothers and neoliberal feminism: diasporic audience research on the Korean reality show strangers3
The (unlocated) in-game gender performativity in contemporary China: exploring gender swapping practices in the online game sphere3
The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS3
COVID-19 pandemic and women transitioning from incarceration: a study of online health information seeking among underserved and marginalized women3
“I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”: a narrative analysis of Chrissy Teigen’s social media describing her miscarriage3
A male feminist walks into a bar: male feminist capital and the “bloke turn” in feminism3
“An issue of no importance?” Media representation of discourses on sexual identities in Kenya3
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime3
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