Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	152
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	106
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	83
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	80
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	75
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	70
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	53
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	50
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	48
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	42
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	41
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	40
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	39
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	37
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	37
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	35
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.	35
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	32
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	31
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	30
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	29
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	28
Can the other be heard?	27
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	26
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	25

The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	23
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	22
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	22
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	22
Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research	21
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors	20
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	20
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	19
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	19
A mask between you and me	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
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	18
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	18
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	18
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	17
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	16
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	15
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	15
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	14
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	14
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	14
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	13
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	13
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	13
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	13
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	13
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	13
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	12
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	12
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	12
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	12
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	12
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	11
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	11
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	11
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China	11
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	11
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	11
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	11
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	11
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	11
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	11
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	11
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	10
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	10
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	10
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	10
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	10

Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	9
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	9
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	9
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	9
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	9
Standpointing global communication	9
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	9
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	9
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	9
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	9
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	9
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	9
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	9
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	8
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	8
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	8
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	8
Martín-Barbero’s style	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	8
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	8
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	8
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	8
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	7
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	7
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	7
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	7
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	7
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”	7
Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television	6
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	6
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	6
Leaving North Korea: Illicit cultural globalization and mediated migration in the digital age	6
Journalism as profession helping women in conflict to move beyond victimhood discourse: A case study of Kashmir	6
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	6
On the Wire: Analysing the evolution of BBC Local Radio, music radio and public service broadcasting	6
A new algorithmic imaginary	6
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	6
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest	6
“Refugees from Ukraine are called humans”: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish tweets about Ukrainian refugees	6
Audiovisual production in Brazil: Will its public support survive the new political scenario?	6
The habitus of misogyny: Bourdieu and the institutionalization of sexist abuse in the video games industry	6
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	6
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	6
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	6
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	6
Audiences of distant suffering in authoritarian regimes: Denial mechanisms and acts of moral justification	6
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	6
The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa	6
Is rooting for the US Women’s National Team un-American? Populism and popular misogyny within conservative digital sports media	5
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV	5
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	5
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	5
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes	5
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	5
“I remember, I saw, I knew”: Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts	5
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	5
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	5
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right	5
Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon	5
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi’s charismatic avatar	5
Rethinking telepresence: post- and pre-COVID-19	5
Streaming culture and a new wave of institutionalisation of audience measurement in China	5
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	5
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	5
Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction	5
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic	5
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	4
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era	4
Female voices in Spanish sports media: The case of Marca and Mundo Deportivo	4

Breaking colonial borders: Arctic collaboration and the emergence of Indigenous screen industries in Sápmi and Greenland	4
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel	4
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	4
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	4
Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalism	4
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	4
Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy	4
Digital divide revisited during and beyond COVID-19	4
Dependence in the online screen industry	4
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises	4
The value of public service media: What does the public expect?	4
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	4
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	4
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation	4
Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships	4
Visualizing femicide in the print media: A comparison of Italy and the UK	4
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	4
‘Unrelenting passion and selflessness’: Theorising the affective labour of community radio practitioners	4
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	4
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough	4
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method	4
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	4
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	4
Fostering resilience: Community radio and disaster communication in Odisha, India	3
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	3
Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal	3
No success no queer: Burnout queerness for queer female entrepreneurs in post-socialist urban China	3
South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance	3
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests	3
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures	3
Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies	3
Tradwives, it’s not (leftist) feminism you dislike, it’s capitalism! Rereading Harry Braverman alongside the discombobulated politics of social media tradwives	3
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship	3
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement	3
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)	3
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance	3
The experience of racism amongst practitioners of colour in the advertising industry	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
Encoding/decoding in artificial intelligence: Global AI and local languages	3
“Alone on the road”: Loneliness among digital nomads and the use of social media to foster personal relationships	3
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians	3
Connecting the last mile in Africa: A volumetric analysis of internet balloons and rural base stations	3
Selling in place: the home as virtual storefront	3
In search of a queer language in contemporary India: Languages ‘upside down’ as resistance to Euro-American universalisms	3
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China	3
Pivot or perish: hazards of selling clothes on Instagram	3
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	3
Domesticating WhatsApp: Female fertility society performers and health promotion in the Gambia	3
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	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
Situated ethics: Ethical accountability of local perspectives in global AI ethics	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
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses	3
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal	3
Queer Indonesia: What’s queer about queer studies in Indonesia?	3
Ordinary lives – Extraordinary journeys: Television entertainment from game shows to reality TV	3
Public service television in the age of subscription video on demand: Shifting TV audience expectations in the UK during COVID-19	3
‘Another conspiracy about a royalty-free song’: Library music in contemporary political discourse	3
The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe	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