Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	191
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	106
The “gendered price” of press freedom in the digital age: Documenting threats and challenges for female journalists in western media systems	95
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	82
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	63
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	58
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	55
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	53
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	51
Racism, social media, and the coronial jurisdiction: An analysis of user interactions on Facebook	47
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	46
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	45
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	42
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.	40
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	38
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	33
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	32
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	30
Commemorative stickers: A repurposing of an ephemeral medium	30
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	30
The temporal identity work of digitally connected migrants: A study of young Syrian migrants in Sweden	29
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	29
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	28
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	27

Can the other be heard?	26
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	25
Reviewer Thank You List	24
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	24
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors	23
Spaces of digital disconnection: A go-along study of dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters	23
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	23
Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research	23
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	22
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	22
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	22
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	22
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	21
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	20
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	19
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	19
Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice	18
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	18
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	17
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	17
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	17
Esports is a riot games: A critical political economic analysis of the closure of the world’s first esports TV network in South Korea	17
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	16
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	16
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	16
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	16
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	16
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	15
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	15
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	15
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	15
Defining displaced publics	14
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	14
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	14
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	14
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	14
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	13
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	13
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	13
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	13
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	13
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	12
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China	12
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	12
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	12
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	12
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	12
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	12
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	12

Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	12
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	11
Making America hot again: Aesthetic politics, from Walter Benjamin to Sydney Sweeney	11
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	10
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	10
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	10
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	10
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	10
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	10
Colonial shadows: From mobile cinemas to digital platforms: scales of cultural influence in Sudanese foreign media consumption	10
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	9
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	9
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	9
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	9
Standpointing global communication	9
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	9
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	9
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	9
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	9
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	8
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	8
Martín-Barbero’s style	8
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	8
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	8
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	8
Rethinking news disengagement: Epistemic disconnection from news	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
Intimate platform biographies on, off and underneath Instagram	8
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	7
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	6
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest	6
Leaving North Korea: Illicit cultural globalization and mediated migration in the digital age	6
A new algorithmic imaginary	6
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	6
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”	6
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	6
Queer worldbuilding in mainstream Anglophone television	6
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	6
Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television	6
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	6
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	6
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	6
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	6
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right	5
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	5
Streaming culture and a new wave of institutionalisation of audience measurement in China	5
Is rooting for the US Women’s National Team un-American? Populism and popular misogyny within conservative digital sports media	5
On the Wire: Analysing the evolution of BBC Local Radio, music radio and public service broadcasting	5
Journalism as profession helping women in conflict to move beyond victimhood discourse: A case study of Kashmir	5
The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa	5
Audiences of distant suffering in authoritarian regimes: Denial mechanisms and acts of moral justification	5
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	5
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	5
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	5
“They like using girls like me, light skin girls”: Music videos, race, and technology in Accra, Ghana	5
An age of scandal entrepreneurs and scandalous production: Undercover journalism and its public interest scandals	5
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic	5
The habitus of misogyny: Bourdieu and the institutionalization of sexist abuse in the video games industry	5
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes	5
“Refugees from Ukraine are called humans”: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish tweets about Ukrainian refugees	5
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	5
“I remember, I saw, I knew”: Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts	5
Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction	5
Audiovisual production in Brazil: Will its public support survive the new political scenario?	5
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	5
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi’s charismatic avatar	5
Digital divide revisited during and beyond COVID-19	4
Rethinking telepresence: post- and pre-COVID-19	4
Pan-national populism: Latino news influencer practices in the global economy	4
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel	4

‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	4
Performing the digital pastoral: Environmental narrative, cultural nostalgia and commodified rurality in Li Ziqi’s videos	4
‘Unrelenting passion and selflessness’: Theorising the affective labour of community radio practitioners	4
Dependence in the online screen industry	4
Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy	4
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method	4
Female voices in Spanish sports media: The case of Marca and Mundo Deportivo	4
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	4
The value of public service media: What does the public expect?	4
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	4
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation	4
Breaking colonial borders: Arctic collaboration and the emergence of Indigenous screen industries in Sápmi and Greenland	4
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	4
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era	4
Visualizing femicide in the print media: A comparison of Italy and the UK	4
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	4
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	4
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises	4
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough	4
Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships	4
Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalism	4
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	4
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	4
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	3
Ordinary lives – Extraordinary journeys: Television entertainment from game shows to reality TV	3
Currents of control: Ownership evolutions in the submarine data cable industry	3
Connecting the last mile in Africa: A volumetric analysis of internet balloons and rural base stations	3
Online othering and epistememic violence against the Pakistani Khwajasara community: Jostling for digital interstitial space	3
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures	3
No success no queer: Burnout queerness for queer female entrepreneurs in post-socialist urban China	3
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance	3
Queer Indonesia: What’s queer about queer studies in Indonesia?	3
Gaza and the rise of synthetic militarism: On genocide and generative AI	3
How diplomacy matters to cultural production: A case study of China’s Korean limitation order and Korean television	3
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	3
Public service television in the age of subscription video on demand: Shifting TV audience expectations in the UK during COVID-19	3
Turning (and tuning in) to rural media: Exploring the role of identity, place, and participation in locating community radio	3
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	3
The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe	3
‘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 sector	3
In search of a queer language in contemporary India: Languages ‘upside down’ as resistance to Euro-American universalisms	3
Fostering resilience: Community radio and disaster communication in Odisha, India	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	3
‘The national media just sees Muslims as if they are not people like us’: The alternate social imaginaries of local journalists reporting on Muslims	3
Domesticating WhatsApp: Female fertility society performers and health promotion in the Gambia	3
South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance	3
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians	3
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests	3
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal	3
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses	3
Social media feeds as curatorial assemblages: A conceptual framework	3
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe	3
Hi Mama! Daycare apps and the mediatization of parenting and care work	3
Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies	3
“Alone on the road”: Loneliness among digital nomads and the use of social media to foster personal relationships	3
The experience of racism amongst practitioners of colour in the advertising industry	3
Situated ethics: Ethical accountability of local perspectives in global AI ethics	3
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship	3
Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal	3
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)	3
Tradwives, it’s not (leftist) feminism you dislike, it’s capitalism! Rereading Harry Braverman alongside the discombobulated politics of social media tradwives	3
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement	3
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China	3
‘Another conspiracy about a royalty-free song’: Library music in contemporary political discourse	3
Encoding/decoding in artificial intelligence: Global AI and local languages	3
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication	3
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	3