Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation	76
Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok: transformation, power relationships, and platformization of video entertainment in China	69
After the post-public sphere	54
Access granted: Facebook’s free basics in Africa	53
Rebel with a cause: the framing of climate change and intergenerational justice in the German press treatment of the Fridays for Future protests	53
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	40
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	39
Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19	38
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	32
De-territorialized digital capitalism and the predicament of the nation-state: Netflix in Arabia	30
The turn to regulation in digital communication: the ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry and Australian media policy	29
Digital labour: an empty signifier?	29
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK	28
Mutual affordances: the dynamics between social media and populism	28
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	26
Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety	26
Vinyl won’t save us: reframing disconnection as engagement	25
The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection	25
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	25
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	23
Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces	23

Dealing with digital: the economic organisation of streamed music	22
Misogynoir in women’s sport media: race, nation, and diaspora in the representation of Naomi Osaka	21
Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television	21
Social media dissidence and activist resistance in Zimbabwe	21
Understanding and interpreting algorithms: toward a hermeneutics of algorithms	21
Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale	20
Facebook and politics in Africa: Zimbabwe and Kenya	20
Hiding hate speech: political moderation on Facebook	20
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System	18
Remembering COVID-19: memory, crisis, and social media	17
The politics and perils of dis/connection in the Global South	17
Post-gay television: LGBTQ representation and the negotiation of ‘normal’ in MTV’sFaking It	17
Digital mourning on Facebook: the case of Filipino migrant worker live-in caregivers in Israel	16
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	16
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference	15
Right-wing populism and the criminalization of sea-rescue NGOs: the ‘Sea-Watch 3’ case in Italy, and Matteo Salvini’s communication on Facebook	15
The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa	15
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	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
13 Reasons Why: can a TV show about suicide be ‘dangerous’? What are the moral obligations of a producer?	14
The institutional basis of anglophone western centrality	14
Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps	14
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	14
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	13
Fake news as fake politics: the digital materialities of YouTube misinformation videos about Brazilian oil spill catastrophe	12
Domestication outside of the domestic: shaping technology and child in an educational moral economy	12
“Dangerous organizations: Facebook’s content moderation decisions and ethnic visibility in Myanmar”	12
Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey	12
Media framing of COVID-19 pandemic in the transitional regime of Serbia: Exploring discourses and strategies	12
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	11
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	11
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	11
BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society	11
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	11
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
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	10
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
#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	10
Hierarchies of deservingness and the limits of hospitality in the ‘refugee crisis’	10
Traces of orientalism in media studies	10
Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory	10
Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies	10
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
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

Digital games, developing democracies, and civic engagement: a study of games in Kenya and Nigeria	9
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	9
From concrete walls to digital walls: transmedia construction of place myth in Ihwa Mural Village, South Korea	9
The conquest of the world as meme: memetic visuality and political humor in critiques of the hindu right wing in India	9
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	9
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	9
Friction-free authenticity: mobile social networks and transactional affordances	8
Social media in Uganda: revitalising news journalism?	8
Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	8
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	8
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	8
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	8
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
Radio via mobile phones: the intersecting logics of media technologies in Ghana	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
Google’s lens: computational photography and platform capitalism	7
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	7
Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus	7
From scheduling to trans-programming	7
How to think about media policy silence	6
Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa	6
Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube	6
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	6
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	6
Dual ambivalence:The UntamedGirls as a counterpublic	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
Encounters with Western media theory: Asian perspectives	6
Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries	6
Television and Black Twitter in South Africa: Our Perfect Wedding	5
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	5
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	5
Opinions that matter: the hybridization of opinion and reputation measurement in social media listening software	5
French theoretical and methodological influences on Brazilian journalism research	5
Cultural politics of Netflix in local contexts: A case of the Korean media industries	5
Translating a Chinese approach? Rural distribution and marketing in Ghana’s phone industry	5
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	5
Media and information literacy for developing resistance to ‘infodemic’: lessons to be learnt from the binge of misinformation during COVID-19 pandemic	5
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	5
Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media	5
Reflections on the inheritances of Indymedia in the age of surveillance and social media	5
Social personalities in sports: an analysis of the differences in individuals’ self-presentation on social networks	5
Platform ecosystems, market hierarchies and the megacorp: The case of Reliance Jio	4
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	4
Loving strangers, avoiding risks: Online dating practices and scams among Chinese lesbian (lala) women	4
A [White] Cyborg’s Manifesto: the overwhelmingly Western ideology driving technofeminist theory	4
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	4
Indymedia in Belgium: the delicate balance between media activism and political activism	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
The algorithm knows I’m Black: from users to subjects	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
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	4
Media against communication: media/violence and conditionalities of Muslim silencing in Northern India	4
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	4
Framing safety of women in public transport: A media discourse analysis of sexual harassment cases in Bangladesh	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
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	4
Algorithmic photography: a case study of the Huawei Moon Mode controversy	4
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	4
How news went guerrilla marketing: a history, logic, and critique of brand journalism	4
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
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	4
Economic Life: global capital, financial journalism, and independent media	3
Dudes, boobs, and GameCubes: Video game advertising enters adolescence	3
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	3
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	3
From the main-melody story to gaming experience: is the Chinese digital game arena a potential counterpublic sphere?	3
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	3
The future of televisions, a response	3
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	3
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	3
Connecting the individual and theotherin disconnection studies	3

Digital media as a driver of change in political organisation: 2010 and 2015 UK general elections	3
Framing the Israel-Palestine conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN’s coverage from a peace journalism perspective	3
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	3
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	3
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	3
Mind the (cultural) gap: International news channels and the challenge of attracting Latin American audiences	3
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle	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
The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia	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
Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	3
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV	3
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses	3
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	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	2
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	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
Whitewashing diverse voices: (de)constructing race and ethnicity in Spanish-language television dubbing	2
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	2
A new algorithmic imaginary	2
Critical celebrations of independent media centers 20 years on	2
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	2
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	2
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	2
The limits of representation activism: analyzing Black celebrity politics in LeBron James’The Shop	2
Disinformation after Trump	2
Writing between the ‘red lines’: Morocco’s digital media landscape	2
Pivot or perish: hazards of selling clothes on Instagram	2
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	2
Fat women, performance and subversive commodification on Ghanaian reality television	2
Generating more inclusive media memory: the limits and possibilities of news archives	2
‘A powerful, spiritual, win-win situation’: commercial authenticity in professional birth photography	2
Political discussion as a propaganda spectacle: propaganda talk shows on contemporary Russian television	2
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	2
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	2
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	2
Mediatisation and the construction of what is morally right and wrong in contemporary business	2
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	2
Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh	2
A market-based rationale for the privacy paradox	2
Indymedia legacies in Brazil and Spain: the integration of technopolitical and intersectional media practices	2
Normative foundations of media welfare: Perspectives from the Nordic countries	2
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	2
‘They don’t need us’: affective precarity and critique in transnational media work from the margins of ‘Cultural China’	2
Extensions after Man: Race, Counter/insurgency and the Futures of Media Theory	2
From asymmetric dependency to discursive disengagement: How social movements and the media/public talked past each other	2
Space as the ideological state apparatus (ISA): the invisible fetter on social movements in China	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
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians	2
South African tabloid coverage of Covid19: The Daily Sun	2
Old and new questions for the public sphere: historicizing its theoretical relevance in post–Cold War South Korea	2
Crosscurrents: Welfare	2
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	2
Virtual reality and celebrity humanitarianism: Rashida Jones in Lebanon	2
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	2
Making sense of murder: Characterizing stories in social media groups	2
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	2