Feminist Media Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Feminist Media Studies is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
From carewashing to radical care: the discursive explosions of care during Covid-1960
Networked feminism: counterpublics and the intersectional issues of #MeToo56
Feminism in advertising: Irony or revolution? A critical review of femvertising51
Intersectional digital feminism: assessing the participation politics and impact of the MeToo movement in China46
“Stay the fuck at home!”: feminism, family and the private home in a time of coronavirus38
A queer “socialist brotherhood”: the Guardian web series, boys’ love fandom, and the Chinese state37
Celebrity 2.0: Lil Miquela and the rise of a virtual star system36
The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram34
The monstrous-feminine in the incel imagination: Investigating the representation of women as “femoids” on /r/Braincels31
Bahujan girls’ anti-caste activism on TikTok30
Digital footprints of #MeToo28
Factions, frames, and postfeminism(s) in the Body Positive Movement26
How Instagram’s algorithm is censoring women and vulnerable users but helping online abusers25
Girl power in boy love: Yaoi, online female counterculture, and digital feminism in China23
Post-feminism and chick flicks in China: subjects, discursive origin and new gender norms22
Translational and transnational queer fandom in China: the fansubbing of Carol21
It has never been “normal”: queer pop in post-2000 China21
Perpetuating and/or resisting the “leftover” myth? The use of (de)legitimation strategies in the Chinese English-language news media19
Feminist futures: #MeToo’s possibilities as poiesis, techné, and pharmakon18
Is this what a feminist looks like? Curating the feminist self in the neoliberal visual economy of Instagram18
“Newsrooms need the metoo movement.” Sexism and the press in Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria16
A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs15
Cultural cringe: how caste and class affect the idea of culture in social media14
The anxiety over soft masculinity: a critical discourse analysis of the “prevention of feminisation of male teenagers” debate in the Chinese-language news media14
An affirmative look at a domesticity in crisis: Women, Humour and Domestic Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic13
Postfeminism™: celebrity feminism, branding and the performance of activist capital13
Diversity in broadcasting as an enabler of capabilities: The case of Palestinian-Israeli women on public and commercial radio and television13
Tolerating the trolls? Gendered perceptions of online harassment of politicians in Canada12
Post-reform gender politics: how do Chinese Internet users portray Theresa May on Zhihu12
“Victims of feminism”: exploring networked misogyny and #MeToo in the manosphere11
Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era11
“My haters and I ”: personal and political responses to hate speech against female journalists in Austria11
“This is oil country:” mediated transnational girlhood, Greta Thunberg, and patriarchal petrocultures11
Social media content moderation: six opportunities for feminist intervention11
Mapping the manosphere. Categorization of reactionary masculinity discourses in digital environment11
Exclusion in #MeToo India: rethinking inclusivity and intersectionality in Indian digital feminist movements10
Say no to shame, waste, inequality—and leaks! Menstrual activism in the market for alternative period products10
“This is not a nice safe space”: investigating women’s safety work on Tinder10
Chinese gay men pursuing online fame: erotic reputation and internet celebrity economies10
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement10
Being watched and feeling judged on social media9
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times9
#Metoo in China: transnational feminist politics in the Chinese context9
The queer promise of pageantry: queering feminized migration and the labor of care inSunday Beauty Queen(2016)9
Stream of sadness: young black women’s racial trauma, police brutality and social media9
Female journalists covering the Hong Kong protests confront ambivalent sexism on the street and in the newsroom8
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media8
The cyber power of marginalized identities: Intersectional strategies of online LGBTQ+ Latinx activism8
“A very basic view of feminism”: feminist girls and meanings of (celebrity) feminism8
“Vulnerable” resilience: the politics of vulnerability as a self-improvement discourse8
Alipay adds “beauty filters” to face-scan payments: a form of patriarchal control over women’s bodies8
Radio as an empowering environment: how does radio broadcasting in Mali represent women’s “web of relations”?8
Postfeminist performance of domesticity and motherhood during the COVID-19 global lockdown: the case of Chiara Ferragni8
Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and “embedded feminism”7
The “ProQuote” initiative: women journalists in Germany push to revolutionize newsroom leadership7
Feminist fire: embodiment and affect in managing conflict in digital feminist spaces7
Support for scholars coping with online harassment: an ecological framework7
Navigating the economy of ambivalent intimacy: gender and relational labour in China’s livestreaming industry7
#MeToo on TV: popular feminism and episodic sexual violence7
Exploring the boundaries of the parasocial contact hypothesis: an experimental analysis of the effects of the “bury your gays” media trope on homophobic and sexist attitudes7
“Fearless, powerful, Filipino”: identity positioning in the hashtag activism of #BabaeAko7
Realities beyond reporting: women environmental defenders in South Africa7
“In my village everything is known”: sexting and revenge porn in young people from rural Spain7
Arab women’s veiled affordances on Instagram: a feminist semiotic inquiry6
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic6
Receipts, radicalisation, reactionaries, and repentance: the digital dissensus, fandom, and the COVID-19 pandemic6
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China6
“If you let me play”: girls’ empowerment and transgender exclusion in sports6
“The moment you realise someone wants your body:” neoliberalism, mindfulness and female embodiment in Fleabag6
#SisterIdobelieveyou: Performative hashtags against patriarchal justice in Spain6
Black women in and beyond Belgian mainstream media: Between opinion–making, dissidence, and marronage6
Vocal, visible and vulnerable: female politicians at the intersection of Islamophobia, sexism and liberal multiculturalism6
Intersectionality in quality feminist television: rethinking women’s solidarity in The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies6
“Women in Mosques”: mapping the gendered religious space through online activism6
From leftover women to cuihun – audience reception of TV representation on marriageable single women in China5
Revise and resubmit: Beauty and the Beast (2017), live-action remakes, and the Disney Princess franchise5
Chinese Supermom: re-domesticating women in reality TV shows5
Viral feminism: #MeToo networked expressions in feminist Facebook groups5
A woman’s got to write what a woman’s got to write: the effect of journalist’s gender on the perceived credibility of news articles5
Men not going their own way: a thick big data analysis of #MGTOW and #Feminism tweets5
Everyday (online) body politics of menstruation5
The gendered impact of caring responsibilities on parents’ experiences of working in the film and television industries5
Intersectional gender measurement: proposing a new metric for gender identity and gender experience5
Why we need intersectionality in Ghanaian feminist politics and discourses5
Sensing the (in)visible: domestic cleaning and cleaners on Mumsnet Talk5
Hashtivism’s potentials for mainstreaming feminism in politics: the Red Lips Revolution transmedia narrative5
“She’s the communication expert”: digital labor and the implications of datafied relational communication5
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”: the dangai industry, queer masculinity and the “opacity” of the state5
Reflections on “thinking postfeminism transnationally”5
It’s a man’s world at the top: gendered media representations of Julia Gillard and Helen Clark5
“It’s like we are not human”: discourses of humanisation and otherness in the representation of trans identity in British broadsheet newspapers5
Hyperreal homoerotic love in a monarchized military conjuncture: a situated view of the Thai Boys’ Love industry5
Professional activism in journalism and education in gender equality through Twitter5
The relationship between instagram use and body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and internalization of beauty ideals: a correlational study of Iranian women5
When the Black lives that matter are not our own: digital Black feminism and a dialectic of self and community5
List-making for social justice: responses, complicity & contestations surrounding #LoSHA5
Revisiting digital defense and Black feminism on social media4
Exposing the “lie”: uncovering abuse and misogyny in Big Little Lies4
Expanding ideologies in the press: feminist and LGBT-related issues in Spanish online-only opinion journalism4
Blackpink queers your area: the global queerbaiting and queer fandom of K-pop female idols4
Watch out for the big girls: Black plus-sized content creators creating space and amplifying visibility in digital spaces4
Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze4
“Shifting old-fashioned power dynamics”?: women’s perspectives on the gender transformational capacity of the dating app, Bumble4
“Leaving my girlhood behind”: woke witches and feminist liminality in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina4
Postfeminist neoliberalization of self-care: a critical discourse analysis of its representation in Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Elle4
A monster, a pervert, and an anti-hero: the discursive construction of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Louis C.K. in humorous #MeToo memes4
Modalities of data colonialism and South Asian hashtag publics4
Out on YouTube: queer youths and coming out videos in Asia and America4
Gendering immigration: media framings of the economic and cultural consequences of immigration4
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: news coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers4
Media representations of camera sexual voyeurism in Singapore: a medicalised, externalised and community problem4
Where’s the panic, where’s the fire? Why claims of moral panic and witch hunts miss the mark when it comes to campus rape and MeToo4
Digital feminist activism: girls and women fight back against rape culture4
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism4
The symbolic representation of women’s political firsts in editorial cartoons4
Narrating women workers’ perceptions of sexism and change in the Australian screen postproduction sector before and after #MeToo4
“Successful” identity transformation: the representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha4
Damsels and darlings: decoding gender equality in video game communities4
16 feminist media studies scholars, 7 questions about working in the university (and beyond)4
Feminist responses to COVID-19 in China through the lens of affect4
The pornified presidency: hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in U.S. political rhetoric4
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustan Thodi Hai: citizenship amendment act protests, hashtag publics and the enlargement of the public space4
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder4
Turning fear into pleasure: feminist resistance against online violence in the Global South4
“Just a place to keep track of myself”: eating disorders, social media, and the quantified self4
“A baby bump for women’s rights”: analysing Local and International Media Coverage of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Pregnancy3
Not all tweets are created equal: gender and politics in the platform age3
Introduction to the special issue: algorithms for her? Feminist claims to technical language3
“You don’t talk like a woman”: the influence of gender identity in the constructions of online misogyny3
“Having it both ways”: containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films3
“Finally, we get to play the doctor”: feminist female fans’ reactions to the first femaleDoctor Who3
Celebrity miscarriage listicles: the help and heartache of mothers talking about pregnancy loss3
“Let’s rewrite some history, shall we?”: temporality and postfeminism in Captain Marvel’s comic book superhero(ine)ism3
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China3
Dodging negativity like it’s my freaking job: marketing postfeminist positivity through Beachbody fitness on Instagram3
Creating feminist spaces: occupying hostile environments3
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain3
More than numbers: an intersectional examination of media portrayals of formerly incarcerated Women Gladys and Jamie Scott3
Feminist chatbots as part of the feminist toolbox3
Feminist podcasting: a new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China3
Strategic femininity on Facebook: women’s experiences negotiating gendered discourses on social media3
Happy and entrepreneurial within the “here and now”: the constitution of the neoliberal female ageing subject3
Digital citizenship in a global society: a feminist approach3
Caste, gender, and “global Indian-ness”: spaces of safety in stand-up comedy in global Mumbai3
The paradox of queer aura: a case study of gender-switching video remakes3
The romantic fantasy of even and Isak—an exploration of Scandinavian women looking for gratification in the teen serialSKAM3
The Tyranny of openness: what happened to peer production?3
When Draupadi says #MeToo: Indian comics reimagining gender justice3
Discipline and resistance in the representation of motherhood: postpartum recovery discussion on Xiaohongshu3
Blaming and shaming in the shadow structure: individual resistance towards gender equality work as expressions of social conflict3
Mothers’ baking blogs: negotiating sacrificial and postfeminist neoliberal motherhood in South Korea3
The stigma of feminism: disclosures and silences regarding female disadvantage in the video game industry in US and Finnish media stories3
Women actors, insecure work, and everyday sexism in the Canadian screen industry3
(Anti-)feminism and cisgenderism in sports media3
Martyrdom and the Myth of Motherhood: U.K. broadcast news media’s agential construction of Palestinian female suicide bombers during the Second Intifada (2000-2005)3
Where the #bgirls at? politics of (in)visibility in breaking culture3
Reconsidering television true crime and gendered authority in Allen v. Farrow3
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia: media discourses about women and alcohol consumption3
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion3
“Why can’t I take a full-shot of myself? of course I can!” studying selfies as socio-technological affective practices3
“Beauties by the political figures:” professional female interpreters in Chinese media3
The internet’s “transnational” boyfriend: digital (re)presentations of celebrity men3
Should I be portrayed like this? An exploration of Indian women in television advertising3
Sex and safety on set: intimacy coordinators in television drama and film in the VOD and post-Weinstein era3
Process-based activism and feminist politics in the neoliberal age3
Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-133
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature3
Gender status inertia in biographical films: an overview of the motion picture industry from 1900 to 20173
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime3
Gendering political conflict: the racialized and dehumanized use of gender on Facebook3
Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Locating disability within online body positivity discourses: an analysis of #DisabledAndCute3
The affective life of heterosexuality: heteropessimism and postfeminism in Fleabag3
(Un)Naturality and Chinese queer masculinities on Ailaibulai2
Adolescent gender differences in internet safety education2
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’2
Gender imbalance in MMORPG: the case of World of Warcraft in Brazil2
The Hidden Work of Women: Commissioning and Development in British Television Drama2
What the reimagination of Breonna Taylor’s (after)life reveals2
Formulating the discourse of pro-work conservatism: A critical discourse analysis of Weibo posts in response to the implementation of the three-child policy2
Women’s narratives inhibiting scopophilic and voyeuristic views: woman as the saviour in contemporary Turkish women’s films2
Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain2
“Paralysed and powerless”: a feminist critical discourse analysis of ‘Drink spiking’ in Australian news media2
Evelyn Preer and Black female stardom in the silent film era2
Low Femme, low theory: memes and the new bedroom culture2
Middle-aged women’s tears: rethinking Chinese popular feminism through Sisters Who Make Waves2
Gendered power relations in the digital age: an analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context2
Deferring gender equality until the next generation: evidence of the persistence of postfeminist discourse in advertising2
“You belong in the kitchen”: social media, virtual manhood acts, and women strength sport athletes’ experiences of gender-based violence online2
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence2
Paid, domestic, and emotional work in the precariat: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You2
“I can’t believe your mixed ass wasn’t on the pill!”: race and abortion on American scripted television, 2008-20192
Arab women’s activism in a transnational media landscape: negotiating gendered spaces2
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show2
“She’s just another pretty face:” sexual harassment of female photographers2
“Love Jihad,” digital affect, and feminist critique2
“Remember to breathe (but don’t make a sound!)”: constructions of childbirth in post-apocalyptic narratives2
An old mind in a young body: womanhood between oppression and expression in Miss Granny2
The gender of the meme: women and protest media in populist Hungary2
Witnessing #MeToo in Japan: mapping digital footprints in online news comment sections2
Coloring your prejudices: nail-polish marketing, “slut-shaming,” and feminist activism2
Information access within carceral institutions2
Women’s epistolary cinema: exploring female alterities: epistolary films and epistolary essay films2
Compassionate celebritization: Unpacking the “True feelings” of the Danish people in the media reporting on a deportation case2
An ethnographic co-design approach to promoting diversity in the games industry2
Non-binary gender identity and algorithmic-psychometric marketing legibility2
“You’re not here for the right reasons!” From The Bachelorette to Instagram Influencer2
Bargaining with patriarchy or converting men into pro-feminists: social-mediated frame alignment in feminist connective activism2
#Metoo in practice: revisiting social media’s influence in individual willingness to mobilize against sexual assault2
Immanent cinematic girlhoods: the ordinary affects in/of Eighth Grade2
Weaponizing neutrality: the entanglement of policing, affect, and surveillance technologies2
Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies2
For Better or Worse: A Gendered Outlook of the films The Leisure Seeker and Alaska2
Same shame: national, regional, and international discourses surrounding Shoaib Mansoor’s cinematic portrayal of gender oppression2
Discourse coalitions against gender and sexual equality: antifeminism as a common denominator between the radical right and the mainstream?2
Under the radar: older women YouTubers and algorithmic influence2
Perception of sexual violence in Tamil movies by Malaysian Indian viewers2
Media and violence against women in the Basque Country: a self-regulation case study2
Run like a mother: running, race, and the shaping of motherhood under Covid-192
Entangled with the necropolis: a decolonial feminist analysis of femicide news coverage in Latin America2
The politics of #diversifyyourfeed in the context of Black Lives Matter2
Turning points from victim to survivor: an examination of sexual violence narratives2
Knowing responsibly: decolonizing knowledge production of Indonesian girlhood2
Shepherdesses: new representations of rural women in Spain2
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre: The Flowers of War2
Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale2
“My dear unwanted”: media discourse on sex-selective abortion in Montenegro2
The problems and intersectional politics of “#BeingFemaleinNigeria”2
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok2
The politics of veiling and unveiling2
Hectic slowness: digital temporalities of precarious care from a Global South perspective2
Men’s comments on elite women athletes: cultural narratives around gender and sport on Instagram2
‘Fight pandemics with protective masks or gender?’ Emerging collective identities and anti-gender movements on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis in Sweden2
Grieving the ambiguous online: pregnancy loss, meaning making & celebrity on Twitter2
Privacy in collapsed contexts of displacement2
Contentious practices of postfeminist audiencing: online discourse about cinematic feminisms in Birds of Prey2
Features of femininity: sportswomen in the Spanish sporting press, 1893 – 19232
“Counter cinema” in the mainstream2
Gendered spatial structuring in Moroccan feminist movies2
Forging a more masculine self online: demonstrating skill and sovereignty in the playing of first-person shooter games2
Shrinking communicative space for media and gender equality civil society organizations2
Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One2
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India2
Co-constructed Documentary Film: collaboration, dialogue, and performance in researching gender and contemporary art in Vietnam2
Post-queer sexualities? Exploring the (re)definition of male’s heteronormativity in the Netflix show “Élite”2
Allies or at-risk subjects?: sexual minority women and the “problem” of HIV in Lesbians on the Loose2
Who gets to speak? Sources in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean press2
Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film2
“It’s what the suffragettes would have wanted”: the construction of the suffragists and suffragettes on Mumsnet2
Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema2
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