Media Culture & Society

Article	Citations
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	100
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	65
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	58
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	49
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	47
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	47
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	40
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	38
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	37
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	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.	33
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	33
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	31
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	30
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	30
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	30
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	28
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	26
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	25
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	25
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	24
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	24
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	22
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21

(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	20
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	18
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	18
Can the other be heard?	17
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	17
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	17
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	17
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	16
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	16
A mask between you and me	16
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	15
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	15
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	14
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	14
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	13
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	13
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	13
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	13
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	12
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	12
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	12
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	12
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	12
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	11
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	11
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	11
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	11
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	11
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	11
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	10
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	10
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	10
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	9
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	9
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	9
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	9
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	9
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	9
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	9
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	9
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	8
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	8
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	8
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	8
Standpointing global communication	8
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas, and counterpublics in the digital sphere	8

Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	8
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	7
Misinformation’s missing human	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	7
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	7
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	7
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	7
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	7
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	6
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	6
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	6
Martín-Barbero’s style	6
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	6
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Crosscurrents: Welfare	6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	6
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	6
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	6
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	6
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	6
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	6
A new algorithmic imaginary	5
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	5
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	5
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	5
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	5
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”	5
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest	5
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	5
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	5
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	5
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	5
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	5
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	5
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	5
Time for a change: women, work, and gender equality in TV production	5
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	5
The habitus of misogyny: Bourdieu and the institutionalization of sexist abuse in the video games industry	4
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi’s charismatic avatar	4
The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa	4
Streaming culture and a new wave of institutionalisation of audience measurement in China	4
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	4
Why so serious? Studying humor on the right	4
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic	4
Journalism as profession helping women in conflict to move beyond victimhood discourse: A case study of Kashmir	4
The criminal trial as a live event: Exploring how and why live blogs change the professional practices of judges, defence lawyers and prosecutors	4
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	4
Representing the victorious past: Chinese revolutionary TV drama between propaganda and marketization	4
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes	4
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	4
Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war	4
Rethinking telepresence: post- and pre-COVID-19	4
“Refugees from Ukraine are called humans”: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish tweets about Ukrainian refugees	4
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	4
Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction	4
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	4
On the Wire: Analysing the evolution of BBC Local Radio, music radio and public service broadcasting	4
Is rooting for the US Women’s National Team un-American? Populism and popular misogyny within conservative digital sports media	4
Sensing the human: biometric surveillance and the Japanese technology industry	4
Media and time	4
Virtual reality and celebrity humanitarianism: Rashida Jones in Lebanon	4
Audiences of distant suffering in authoritarian regimes: Denial mechanisms and acts of moral justification	4
Audiovisual production in Brazil: Will its public support survive the new political scenario?	4
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	3
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV	3
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	3
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation	3
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	3
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	3
Production, policy and power: the screen industry’s response to the environmental crisis	3
Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships	3

Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises	3
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	3
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era	3
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	3
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	3
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	3
Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon	3
Fans speak for whom? Imagined ‘official’, internalised hegemony and self-censorship	3
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	3
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	3
Internet blackouts in Meghalaya: A case of emerging complexities in the digital age	3
Visualizing femicide in the print media: A comparison of Italy and the UK	3
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel	3
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	3
Dependence in the online screen industry	3
Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	3
“I remember, I saw, I knew”: Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts	3
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	3
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	3
“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)	3
The value of public service media: What does the public expect?	3
Tethered labor: Creation and coercion in the platform economy	3
Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh	3
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	3
Mind the Gap: Facebook’s measures against information disorder do not go far enough	3
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	3
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 industry	2
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication	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
Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal	2
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	2
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	2
Responses to health risk and suffering: ‘China’ in the Italian media discourses during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Mediatisation and the construction of what is morally right and wrong in contemporary business	2
Domesticating WhatsApp: Female fertility society performers and health promotion in the Gambia	2
Compelled TikTok creators? The ambivalent affordances of the short video app for Filipino musicians	2
Fostering resilience: Community radio and disaster communication in Odisha, India	2
“An out gay man in the parliament”: New aspects in the study of LGBTQ politicians’ media coverage	2
Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict	2
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	2
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe	2
Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies	2
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	2
Selling in place: the home as virtual storefront	2
Japanese scandals and their production	2
Ordinary lives – Extraordinary journeys: Television entertainment from game shows to reality TV	2
Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality	2
“Freedom is not free”: Visual activism and dispersed resistance in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests	2
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance	2
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	2
South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance	2
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	2
Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign	2
Between affection and control: Chinese migrant mothers’ motherhood practices based on the mediated one-dimensional visibility of home cameras	2
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	2
‘Another conspiracy about a royalty-free song’: Library music in contemporary political discourse	2
Mediating emergencies: Defining the relationship between intimate and distant disaster communication models	2
Public service television in the age of subscription video on demand: Shifting TV audience expectations in the UK during COVID-19	2
Situated ethics: Ethical accountability of local perspectives in global AI ethics	2
Pivot or perish: hazards of selling clothes on Instagram	2
‘The national media just sees Muslims as if they are not people like us’: The alternate social imaginaries of local journalists reporting on Muslims	2
Heterodox approaches to save the day: A framework for analysing data-related innovation in legacy media businesses	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 Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe	2
Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement	2
The streaming industry and the great disruption: how winning a Golden Globe helps Amazon sell more shoes	2
Passing on the “whistle”: Users’ creative engagement with platform censorship in an online relay campaign in China	2
“Alone on the road”: Loneliness among digital nomads and the use of social media to foster personal relationships	2
Sorella’s Story: Holocaust awareness among generations, through technology and empathy	2
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	2