Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation	102
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	62
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	46
The virtual stages of hate: Using Goffman’s work to conceptualise the motivations for online hate	44
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	43
Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19	41
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK	37
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	36
Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety	33
Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television	31
Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces	29
Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale	28
Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports	27
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	26
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System	25
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	23
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	22
Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps	22
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	22
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	20
BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society	19
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference	19
A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The cases of Alibaba and Tencent	19
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	19
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture	18

Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	18
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	18
Remembering COVID-19: memory, crisis, and social media	17
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	17
Domesticating dating apps: Non-single Chinese gay men’s dating app use and negotiations of relational boundaries	16
Media framing of COVID-19 pandemic in the transitional regime of Serbia: Exploring discourses and strategies	15
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	15
Marginality and otherness: the discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media	14
Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive	14
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	14
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	14
Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey	14
Fake news as fake politics: the digital materialities of YouTube misinformation videos about Brazilian oil spill catastrophe	14
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	14
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic	14
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	14
“Dangerous organizations: Facebook’s content moderation decisions and ethnic visibility in Myanmar”	14
Media and information literacy for developing resistance to ‘infodemic’: lessons to be learnt from the binge of misinformation during COVID-19 pandemic	13
Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies	13
Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory	13
Toward a non-binary sense of mobility: insights from self-presentation in Instagram photography during COVID-19 pandemic	13
Cultural politics of Netflix in local contexts: A case of the Korean media industries	12
The conquest of the world as meme: memetic visuality and political humor in critiques of the hindu right wing in India	12
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey	12
#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	12
Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism	12
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	12
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	12
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	11
Friction-free authenticity: mobile social networks and transactional affordances	11
Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families	11
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	11
Traces of orientalism in media studies	11
Defusing moral panic: Legitimizing binge-watching as manageable, high-quality, middle-class hedonism	10
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	10
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	9
Platform ecosystems, market hierarchies and the megacorp: The case of Reliance Jio	9
Towards the engagement economy: interconnected processes of commodification on YouTube	9
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	9
Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus	9
Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa	8
Framing the Israel-Palestine conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN’s coverage from a peace journalism perspective	8
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	8
Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	8
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	7
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	7
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	7
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	7
A new algorithmic imaginary	7
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	7

Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	7
Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia	7
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	7
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	6
Political discussion as a propaganda spectacle: propaganda talk shows on contemporary Russian television	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Framing safety of women in public transport: A media discourse analysis of sexual harassment cases in Bangladesh	6
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	6
The algorithm knows I’m Black: from users to subjects	6
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	6
From user-generated content to a user-generated aesthetic: Instagram, corporate vernacularization, and the intimate life of brands	6
The criminal trial as a live event: Exploring how and why live blogs change the professional practices of judges, defence lawyers and prosecutors	6
The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia	6
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	6
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	5
Power geometries of mediated care: (re)mapping transnational families and immobility of the Rohingya diaspora in a digital age	5
Algorithmic photography: a case study of the Huawei Moon Mode controversy	5
Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	5
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	5
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
French theoretical and methodological influences on Brazilian journalism research	5
Exploring data journalism practices in Africa: data politics, media ecosystems and newsroom infrastructures	5
Envisioning a credit society: social credit systems and the institutionalization of moral standards in China	5
Translating a Chinese approach? Rural distribution and marketing in Ghana’s phone industry	5
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	5
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	5
Mind the (cultural) gap: International news channels and the challenge of attracting Latin American audiences	5
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	5
Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media	5
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	5
Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	5
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses	4
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	4
South African tabloid coverage of Covid19: The Daily Sun	4
The limits of representation activism: analyzing Black celebrity politics in LeBron James’ The Shop	4
Loving strangers, avoiding risks: Online dating practices and scams among Chinese lesbian (lala) women	4
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	4
Dudes, boobs, and GameCubes: Video game advertising enters adolescence	4
Time for a change: women, work, and gender equality in TV production	4
“Why attacking the Bureau of Industry and Commerce?”: news value flow to news comments on Chinese social media	4
Crosscurrents: Welfare	4
Media against communication: media/violence and conditionalities of Muslim silencing in Northern India	4
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	4
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle	4
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians	4
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	4
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	4
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	4
A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts’?	4
From the main-melody story to gaming experience: is the Chinese digital game arena a potential counterpublic sphere?	4
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	3
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	3
Japanese scandals and their production	3
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right	3
‘A powerful, spiritual, win-win situation’: commercial authenticity in professional birth photography	3
Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	3
Making sense of murder: Characterizing stories in social media groups	3
Generating more inclusive media memory: the limits and possibilities of news archives	3
Differentiation of series and tastes for TV series: The French case	3
Economic Life: global capital, financial journalism, and independent media	3
Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey	3
Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India	3
Crowdfunding (as) disinformation: ‘Pitching’ 5G and election fraud campaigns on GoFundMe	3
Local fiction series: the value of European Public Service Media (1990–2020)	3
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	3
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV	3
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	3
Representing the victorious past: Chinese revolutionary TV drama between propaganda and marketization	3
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	3
Space as the ideological state apparatus (ISA): the invisible fetter on social movements in China	3
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	3
Mediatisation and the construction of what is morally right and wrong in contemporary business	3
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	3
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	3
Techno-cultural domestication of online Tarot reading in contemporary China	3
Writing between the ‘red lines’: Morocco’s digital media landscape	3
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	3
Extensions after Man: Race, Counter/insurgency and the Futures of Media Theory	3
The boy on the beach: Shifts in US policy discourses on Syrian asylum following the death of Alan Kurdi	3

More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	3
Pivot or perish: hazards of selling clothes on Instagram	3
Whitewashing diverse voices: (de)constructing race and ethnicity in Spanish-language television dubbing	3
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	3
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	3
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	3
Moderating for a friend of mine: Content moderation as affective reproduction in Chinese live-streaming	3
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	3
The streaming industry and the platform economy: An analysis	2
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	2
Can’t wait to feel better: Facebook Live and the recalibration of downtime in tending to the body	2
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	2
Straight and cisgender actors playing queer and trans characters: the views of Australian screen stakeholders	2
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	2
Deplatforming “the people”: media populism, racial capitalism, and the regulation of online reactionary networks	2
Virtual reality and celebrity humanitarianism: Rashida Jones in Lebanon	2
The stories that tell us: smartphones and discursive reconstitution of transnational intimacy among migrant mothers	2
“I want to be a bridge”? The digital identity positioning of transnational bloggers on Chinese social media platforms: Between ethnic differences and cultural affinities	2
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	2
‘They don’t need us’: Affective precarity and critique in transnational media work from the margins of ‘Cultural China’	2
Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration	2
The remains of the disappeared: digital melancholia and Ensaaf (justice)	2
Eating alone as psychological self-care: How the younger generation in Let’s Eat survives in neoliberal South Korea	2
Contesting the intermediary power: How Chinese MCNs interact with platforms, creators, and advertisers	2
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	2
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	2
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	2
A market-based rationale for the privacy paradox	2
Sensing the human: biometric surveillance and the Japanese technology industry	2
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	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
Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’	2
From asymmetric dependency to discursive disengagement: How social movements and the media/public talked past each other	2
Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers	2
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	2
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	2
Share with care: negotiating children’s health and safety in sharenting practices	2
Re-meme-bering Tiananmen? From collective memory to meta-memory on TikTok	2
Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh	2
The wellbeing of ordinary people in factual television production	2
Misinformation’s missing human	2
Disinformation after Trump	2
Normative foundations of media welfare: Perspectives from the Nordic countries	2
Impairment, failure, emergency: A review essay on recent trends in media and disability studies	2
The political uses of memory: Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities	2
Sugar and spice (and everything nice?): Japan’s ambition behind Lolita’s Kawaii aesthetics	2
Fat women, performance and subversive commodification on Ghanaian reality television	2
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	2
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	1
Responses to health risk and suffering: ‘China’ in the Italian media discourses during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic	1
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	1
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	1
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	1
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement	1
Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign	1
A mask between you and me	1
Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality	1
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	1
Mimicking the mimics: problematizing cover performance of Filipino local music on social media	1
The libidinal economy of vernacularisation: modernity, sexuality and Bhojpuri media	1
‘Yo Te AMLO’: Sentimentalism, threat and affective flows in political campaign song videos in Mexico	1
Chinese media production and fandom between queerbaiting and “survival instincts”	1
Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times	1
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	1
Wireless telephone, materiality, and making of the national auditory in Turkey	1
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	1
Melancholic media: virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic	1
Authentic cult: media representations of cultural consumption and legitimization of cultural hierarchies	1
Patenting sociality: Uncovering the operational logics of Facebook through critical patent analysis	1
Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus	1
Gender, party and performance in the 2020 New Zealand general election: politicking on Facebook with Jacinda and Judith	1
Dismembering media diversity: A tryst with two press commissions	1
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	1
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	1
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship	1
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China	1
Diversity and data: an ontology of race and ethnicity in the British Film Institute’s Diversity Standards	1
Overseas media, homeland audiences: examining determinants of newsmaking in Deutsche Welle’s Amharic Service	1
Selling rural China: The construction and commodification of rurality in Chinese promotional livestreaming	1
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	1
CORRIGENDUM to “The criminal trial as a live event: Exploring how and why live blogs change the professional practices of judges, defence lawyers and prosecutors”	1
Combining motherhood and work in the creative industries: Mothers have the problem	1
Decolonising public service television in Aotearoa New Zealand: telling better stories about Indigenous rurality	1
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	1
Travel blogging, professionalism, and the changing boundaries of knowledge production	1
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	1
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)	1
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	1
Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency	1
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	1
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	1
Struggling for the right to struggle: Cultural workers’ labour rights and unions	1
Review essay: When we talk about platforms and culture, what are we talking about?	1
Zimbabwean news media discourses on the intersection of abortion, religion, health and the law	1
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	1