Media Culture & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Media Culture & Society 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage203
Racism, social media, and the coronial jurisdiction: An analysis of user interactions on Facebook113
The “gendered price” of press freedom in the digital age: Documenting threats and challenges for female journalists in western media systems98
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore65
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths60
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating57
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media57
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations55
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms47
Day of Rage : Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot47
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy43
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms42
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.38
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying35
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?33
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction33
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival32
Commemorative stickers: A repurposing of an ephemeral medium31
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya31
The temporal identity work of digitally connected migrants: A study of young Syrian migrants in Sweden30
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives30
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway28
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state28
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)27
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?26
Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research25
Reviewer Thank You List24
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors24
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots23
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America23
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake23
Spaces of digital disconnection: A go-along study of dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters23
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing23
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age22
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border22
Can the other be heard?21
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China20
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence19
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–201819
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences19
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries18
Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice18
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism18
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus18
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom18
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China17
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak16
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news16
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial16
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age16
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures16
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges16
Esports is a riot games: A critical political economic analysis of the closure of the world’s first esports TV network in South Korea16
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield16
Defining displaced publics15
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma15
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society15
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches15
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema15
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade15
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland14
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research14
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic14
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic13
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China13
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?13
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China13
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil12
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing12
Making America hot again: Aesthetic politics, from Walter Benjamin to Sydney Sweeney12
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China12
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users12
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic12
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok11
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies11
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 11
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton10
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age10
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere10
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform10
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms10
Colonial shadows: From mobile cinemas to digital platforms: scales of cultural influence in Sudanese foreign media consumption10
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic10
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy9
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle9
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions9
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”9
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities9
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory9
From mainstream to the margins: Regime-driven delegitimisation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy critical journalistic norms9
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity9
Standpointing global communication9
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa8
Intimate platform biographies on, off and underneath Instagram8
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media8
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world8
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility8
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles8
Rethinking news disengagement: Epistemic disconnection from news8
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies8
Martín-Barbero’s style7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired7
Misinformation’s missing human7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption7
“Cloning Myself with AI”: AI Avatar as the affective infrastructures of the platform economy7
AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLM7
Crosscurrents: Welfare7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation7
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable7
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”6
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations6
An age of scandal entrepreneurs and scandalous production: Undercover journalism and its public interest scandals6
Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction6
Queer worldbuilding in mainstream Anglophone television6
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television6
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan6
Leaving North Korea: Illicit cultural globalization and mediated migration in the digital age6
A new algorithmic imaginary6
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi’s charismatic avatar6
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest6
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab6
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong6
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television6
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization6
Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television6
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future6
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality6
Audiences of distant suffering in authoritarian regimes: Denial mechanisms and acts of moral justification5
“Refugees from Ukraine are called humans”: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish tweets about Ukrainian refugees5
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising5
“They like using girls like me, light skin girls”: Music videos, race, and technology in Accra, Ghana5
Rethinking telepresence: post- and pre-COVID-195
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media5
Radio discovery in smart speakers: The gatekeeping function of voice assistant platforms and aggregators5
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic5
Journalism as profession helping women in conflict to move beyond victimhood discourse: A case study of Kashmir5
The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa5
Sport as a commercial media spectacle: The case of the “F1: The Movie”5
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots5
Streaming culture and a new wave of institutionalisation of audience measurement in China5
“I remember, I saw, I knew”: Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts5
The habitus of misogyny: Bourdieu and the institutionalization of sexist abuse in the video games industry5
Audiovisual production in Brazil: Will its public support survive the new political scenario?5
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes5
On the Wire: Analysing the evolution of BBC Local Radio, music radio and public service broadcasting5
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right5
Is rooting for the US Women’s National Team un-American? Populism and popular misogyny within conservative digital sports media5
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus5
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation4
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises4
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media4
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era4
Pan-national populism: Latino news influencer practices in the global economy4
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions4
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough4
‘Unrelenting passion and selflessness’: Theorising the affective labour of community radio practitioners4
The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe4
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method4
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos4
Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy4
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork4
Breaking colonial borders: Arctic collaboration and the emergence of Indigenous screen industries in Sápmi and Greenland4
Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships4
Digital vulnerabilities4
The value of public service media: What does the public expect?4
Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalism4
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms4
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals4
Visualizing femicide in the print media: A comparison of Italy and the UK4
Dependence in the online screen industry4
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’4
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel4
Performing the digital pastoral: Environmental narrative, cultural nostalgia and commodified rurality in Li Ziqi’s videos4
Female voices in Spanish sports media: The case of Marca and Mundo Deportivo4
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation4
Digital divide revisited during and beyond COVID-194
Domesticating WhatsApp: Female fertility society performers and health promotion in the Gambia3
‘Another conspiracy about a royalty-free song’: Library music in contemporary political discourse3
Situated ethics: Ethical accountability of local perspectives in global AI ethics3
‘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 sector3
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse3
Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies3
Connecting the last mile in Africa: A volumetric analysis of internet balloons and rural base stations3
Online othering and epistememic violence against the Pakistani Khwajasara community: Jostling for digital interstitial space3
The experience of racism amongst practitioners of colour in the advertising industry3
No success no queer: Burnout queerness for queer female entrepreneurs in post-socialist urban China3
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship3
Two tales about the power of algorithms in online environments: on the need for transdisciplinary dialogue in the study of algorithms and digital capitalism3
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)3
How diplomacy matters to cultural production: A case study of China’s Korean limitation order and Korean television3
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes3
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China3
Public service television in the age of subscription video on demand: Shifting TV audience expectations in the UK during COVID-193
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication3
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter3
“Alone on the road”: Loneliness among digital nomads and the use of social media to foster personal relationships3
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures3
‘The national media just sees Muslims as if they are not people like us’: The alternate social imaginaries of local journalists reporting on Muslims3
“Reliable and Cheap”?: Examining the adoption of the cloud by European news media companies3
Queer Indonesia: What’s queer about queer studies in Indonesia?3
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests3
Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal3
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement3
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians3
Gaza and the rise of synthetic militarism: On genocide and generative AI3
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses3
Turning (and tuning in) to rural media: Exploring the role of identity, place, and participation in locating community radio3
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations3
Encoding/decoding in artificial intelligence: Global AI and local languages3
Ordinary lives – Extraordinary journeys: Television entertainment from game shows to reality TV3
Hi Mama! Daycare apps and the mediatization of parenting and care work3
In search of a queer language in contemporary India: Languages ‘upside down’ as resistance to Euro-American universalisms3
Fostering resilience: Community radio and disaster communication in Odisha, India3
Tradwives, it’s not (leftist) feminism you dislike, it’s capitalism! Rereading Harry Braverman alongside the discombobulated politics of social media tradwives3
South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance3
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance3
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal3
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