Media Culture & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Media Culture & Society is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations111
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution79
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice61
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land57
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms56
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating55
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot47
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths40
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media39
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore37
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy35
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives34
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?34
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.32
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms31
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis30
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival28
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying27
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway27
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya26
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction26
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake25
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots25
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing22
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence21
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border21
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state19
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America19
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)19
Can the other be heard?18
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age17
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?17
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China16
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences16
A mask between you and me15
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism14
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies14
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news14
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom13
Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice13
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries13
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–201813
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak12
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age12
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains12
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China12
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial12
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-1912
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges11
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society11
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures10
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema10
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield10
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade9
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series9
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies9
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches9
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic9
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok9
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research9
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?9
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing9
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton9
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform8
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland8
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic8
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities8
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China8
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil8
Standpointing global communication8
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions8
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users8
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age8
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy7
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms7
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media7
Misinformation’s missing human7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa7
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation7
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere7
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity7
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles7
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage7
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine7
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media7
Martín-Barbero’s style6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation6
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity6
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable6
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack6
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective6
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory6
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility6
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation6
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster6
Crosscurrents: Welfare6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality6
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity6
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption6
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media6
Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television5
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media5
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television5
A new algorithmic imaginary5
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations5
The habitus of misogyny: Bourdieu and the institutionalization of sexist abuse in the video games industry5
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future5
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming5
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance5
Time for a change: women, work, and gender equality in TV production5
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship5
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest5
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan5
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab5
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong5
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television5
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization5
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”5
Leaving North Korea: Illicit cultural globalization and mediated migration in the digital age5
Rethinking telepresence: post- and pre-COVID-194
Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction4
Audiences of distant suffering in authoritarian regimes: Denial mechanisms and acts of moral justification4
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi’s charismatic avatar4
Audiovisual production in Brazil: Will its public support survive the new political scenario?4
Streaming culture and a new wave of institutionalisation of audience measurement in China4
Is rooting for the US Women’s National Team un-American? Populism and popular misogyny within conservative digital sports media4
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV4
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic4
“Refugees from Ukraine are called humans”: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish tweets about Ukrainian refugees4
Journalism as profession helping women in conflict to move beyond victimhood discourse: A case study of Kashmir4
On the Wire: Analysing the evolution of BBC Local Radio, music radio and public service broadcasting4
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war4
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right4
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems4
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots4
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism4
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising4
The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa4
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes4
Sensing the human: biometric surveillance and the Japanese technology industry4
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media4
Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon4
Domesticating WhatsApp: Female fertility society performers and health promotion in the Gambia3
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis3
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough3
Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships3
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)3
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms3
Dependence in the online screen industry3
Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy3
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel3
Media and time3
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media3
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory3
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China3
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance3
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship3
The value of public service media: What does the public expect?3
Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalism3
Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh3
Visualizing femicide in the print media: A comparison of Italy and the UK3
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises3
“I remember, I saw, I knew”: Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts3
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals3
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork3
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’3
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions3
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system3
The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe3
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation3
Internet blackouts in Meghalaya: A case of emerging complexities in the digital age3
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy3
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators3
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos3
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation3
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-193
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus3
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era3
‘Unrelenting passion and selflessness’: Theorising the affective labour of community radio practitioners3
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method3
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation3
Mediatisation and the construction of what is morally right and wrong in contemporary business3
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes3
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse2
Connecting the last mile in Africa: A volumetric analysis of internet balloons and rural base stations2
Encoding/decoding in artificial intelligence: Global AI and local languages2
‘Another conspiracy about a royalty-free song’: Library music in contemporary political discourse2
Fostering resilience: Community radio and disaster communication in Odisha, India2
Public service television in the age of subscription video on demand: Shifting TV audience expectations in the UK during COVID-192
Ordinary lives – Extraordinary journeys: Television entertainment from game shows to reality TV2
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians2
Two tales about the power of algorithms in online environments: on the need for transdisciplinary dialogue in the study of algorithms and digital capitalism2
No success no queer: Burnout queerness for queer female entrepreneurs in post-socialist urban China2
Hi Mama! Daycare apps and the mediatization of parenting and care work2
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe2
A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts’?2
The experience of racism amongst practitioners of colour in the advertising industry2
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 media2
Queer Indonesia: What’s queer about queer studies in Indonesia?2
Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal2
South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance2
“Alone on the road”: Loneliness among digital nomads and the use of social media to foster personal relationships2
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal2
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses2
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests2
Pivot or perish: hazards of selling clothes on Instagram2
‘The national media just sees Muslims as if they are not people like us’: The alternate social imaginaries of local journalists reporting on Muslims2
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore2
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication2
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter2
In search of a queer language in contemporary India: Languages ‘upside down’ as resistance to Euro-American universalisms2
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism2
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures2
Situated ethics: Ethical accountability of local perspectives in global AI ethics2
Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies2
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis2
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice2
Responses to health risk and suffering: ‘China’ in the Italian media discourses during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic2
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement2
Selling in place: the home as virtual storefront2
Social media feeds as curatorial assemblages: A conceptual framework2
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations2
Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality2
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