Feminist Media Studies

Article	Citations
The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram	56
Digital footprints of #MeToo	32
Bahujan girls’ anti-caste activism on TikTok	30
“Victims of feminism”: exploring networked misogyny and #MeToo in the manosphere	20
The anxiety over soft masculinity: a critical discourse analysis of the “prevention of feminisation of male teenagers” debate in the Chinese-language news media	20
Mapping the manosphere. Categorization of reactionary masculinity discourses in digital environment	17
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media	16
“This is not a nice safe space”: investigating women’s safety work on Tinder	15
Cultural cringe: how caste and class affect the idea of culture in social media	15
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter: deconstructing affect and emotion in the #MeToo movement	14
“My haters and I ”: personal and political responses to hate speech against female journalists in Austria	13
Being watched and feeling judged on social media	13
Stream of sadness: young black women’s racial trauma, police brutality and social media	13
Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era	12
Say no to shame, waste, inequality—and leaks! Menstrual activism in the market for alternative period products	12
Exclusion in #MeToo India: rethinking inclusivity and intersectionality in Indian digital feminist movements	12
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”: the dangai industry, queer masculinity and the “opacity” of the state	11
“This is oil country:” mediated transnational girlhood, Greta Thunberg, and patriarchal petrocultures	11
Everyday (online) body politics of menstruation	11
Radio as an empowering environment: how does radio broadcasting in Mali represent women’s “web of relations”?	10
Navigating the economy of ambivalent intimacy: gender and relational labour in China’s livestreaming industry	10
#Metoo in China: transnational feminist politics in the Chinese context	10
“If you let me play”: girls’ empowerment and transgender exclusion in sports	10
“It’s like we are not human”: discourses of humanisation and otherness in the representation of trans identity in British broadsheet newspapers	9
Men not going their own way: a thick big data analysis of #MGTOW and #Feminism tweets	9

The queer promise of pageantry: queering feminized migration and the labor of care inSunday Beauty Queen(2016)	9
“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times	9
Realities beyond reporting: women environmental defenders in South Africa	9
Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and “embedded feminism”	8
The “ProQuote” initiative: women journalists in Germany push to revolutionize newsroom leadership	8
“In my village everything is known”: sexting and revenge porn in young people from rural Spain	8
Female journalists covering the Hong Kong protests confront ambivalent sexism on the street and in the newsroom	8
Feminist fire: embodiment and affect in managing conflict in digital feminist spaces	8
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 attitudes	8
Vocal, visible and vulnerable: female politicians at the intersection of Islamophobia, sexism and liberal multiculturalism	8
Hyperreal homoerotic love in a monarchized military conjuncture: a situated view of the Thai Boys’ Love industry	8
Feminist responses to COVID-19 in China through the lens of affect	7
“She’s the communication expert”: digital labor and the implications of datafied relational communication	7
“Just a place to keep track of myself”: eating disorders, social media, and the quantified self	7
Intersectional gender measurement: proposing a new metric for gender identity and gender experience	7
Damsels and darlings: decoding gender equality in video game communities	7
#MeToo on TV: popular feminism and episodic sexual violence	7
Discipline and resistance in the representation of motherhood: postpartum recovery discussion onXiaohongshu	7
“Women in Mosques”: mapping the gendered religious space through online activism	7
Support for scholars coping with online harassment: an ecological framework	7
From leftover women to cuihun – audience reception of TV representation on marriageable single women in China	7
Black women in and beyond Belgian mainstream media: Between opinion–making, dissidence, and marronage	7
Intersectionality in quality feminist television: rethinking women’s solidarity inThe Handmaid’s TaleandBig Little Lies	7
#SisterIdobelieveyou: Performative hashtags against patriarchal justice in Spain	7
(Anti-)feminism and cisgenderism in sports media	7
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China	7
Gendering immigration: media framings of the economic and cultural consequences of immigration	6
Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze	6
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Viral feminism: #MeToo networked expressions in feminist Facebook groups	6
Chinese Supermom: re-domesticating women in reality TV shows	6
Blackpink queers your area: the global queerbaiting and queer fandom of K-pop female idols	6
Why we need intersectionality in Ghanaian feminist politics and discourses	6
Arab women’s veiled affordances on Instagram: a feminist semiotic inquiry	6
Formulating the discourse of pro-work conservatism: a critical discourse analysis of Weibo posts in response to the implementation of the three-child policy	6
Mothers’ baking blogs: negotiating sacrificial and postfeminist neoliberal motherhood in South Korea	6
Sensing the (in)visible: domestic cleaning and cleaners on Mumsnet Talk	6
“Shifting old-fashioned power dynamics”?: women’s perspectives on the gender transformational capacity of the dating app, Bumble	6
Revise and resubmit: Beauty and the Beast (2017), live-action remakes, and the Disney Princess franchise	6
“Let’s rewrite some history, shall we?”: temporality and postfeminism in Captain Marvel’s comic book superhero(ine)ism	5
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature	5
The relationship between instagram use and body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and internalization of beauty ideals: a correlational study of Iranian women	5
Feminist podcasting: a new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China	5
Bargaining with patriarchy or converting men into pro-feminists: social-mediated frame alignment in feminist connective activism	5
List-making for social justice: responses, complicity & contestations surrounding #LoSHA	5
Digital citizenship in a global society: a feminist approach	5
“Why can’t I take a full-shot of myself? of course I can!” studying selfies as socio-technological affective practices	5
It’s a global #MeToo: a cross-national comparison of social change associated with the movement	5
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show	5
Postfeminist neoliberalization of self-care: a critical discourse analysis of its representation in Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Elle	5

A monster, a pervert, and an anti-hero: the discursive construction of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Louis C.K. in humorous #MeToo memes	5
The symbolic representation of women’s political firsts in editorial cartoons	5
Reflections on “thinking postfeminism transnationally”	5
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation	5
Watch out for the big girls: Black plus-sized content creators creating space and amplifying visibility in digital spaces	5
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary	5
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder	5
Sex and safety on set: intimacy coordinators in television drama and film in the VOD and post-Weinstein era	5
Hashtivism’s potentials for mainstreaming feminism in politics: the Red Lips Revolution transmedia narrative	5
When the Black lives that matter are not our own: digital Black feminism and a dialectic of self and community	5
Happy and entrepreneurial within the “here and now”: the constitution of the neoliberal female ageing subject	5
The affective life of heterosexuality: heteropessimism and postfeminism in Fleabag	5
“Successful” identity transformation: the representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha	5
Professional activism in journalism and education in gender equality through Twitter	5
“Pale, Young, and Slim” girls on red: a study of young femininities on social media in post-socialist China	5
It’s a man’s world at the top: gendered media representations of Julia Gillard and Helen Clark	5
Narrating women workers’ perceptions of sexism and change in the Australian screen postproduction sector before and after #MeToo	4
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media	4
Discourse coalitions against gender and sexual equality: antifeminism as a common denominator between the radical right and the mainstream?	4
#DearSister and #MosqueMeToo: adversarial Islamic feminism within the Western-Islamic public sphere	4
Out on YouTube: queer youths and coming out videos in Asia and America	4
16 feminist media studies scholars, 7 questions about working in the university (and beyond)	4
“Having it both ways”: containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films	4
Should I be portrayed like this? An exploration of Indian women in television advertising	4
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence	4
Deconstructing the otherness of Moroccan-Dutch people through cinema: Meskina as a counter narrative	4
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China	4
The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals	4
Reconsidering television true crime and gendered authority in Allen v. Farrow	4
Modalities of data colonialism and South Asian hashtag publics	4
“You belong in the kitchen”: social media, virtual manhood acts, and women strength sport athletes’ experiences of gender-based violence online	4
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime	4
Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
“You don’t talk like a woman”: the influence of gender identity in the constructions of online misogyny	4
Men’s comments on elite women athletes: cultural narratives around gender and sport on Instagram	4
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism	4
‘Fight pandemics with protective masks or gender?’ Emerging collective identities and anti-gender movements on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis in Sweden	4
Dodging negativity like it’s my freaking job: marketing postfeminist positivity through Beachbody fitness on Instagram	4
The internet’s “transnational” boyfriend: digital (re)presentations of celebrity men	4
Revisiting digital defense and Black feminism on social media	4
Where the #bgirls at? politics of (in)visibility in breaking culture	4
The politics of #diversifyyourfeed in the context of Black Lives Matter	4
Exposing the “lie”: uncovering abuse and misogyny in Big Little Lies	4
The performance of protest: Las Tesis and the new feminist radicality at the conjunction of digital spaces and the streets	4
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustan Thodi Hai: citizenship amendment act protests, hashtag publics and the enlargement of the public space	4
Celebrity miscarriage listicles: the help and heartache of mothers talking about pregnancy loss	4
Shepherdesses: new representations of rural women in Spain	4
More than numbers: an intersectional examination of media portrayals of formerly incarcerated Women Gladys and Jamie Scott	4
From surgery to Cyborgs: a thematic analysis of popular media commentary on Instagram filters	3
Post-queer sexualities? Exploring the (re)definition of male’s heteronormativity in the Netflix show “Élite”	3
“Paralysed and powerless”: a feminist critical discourse analysis of ‘Drink spiking’ in Australian news media	3
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain	3
Strategic femininity on Facebook: women’s experiences negotiating gendered discourses on social media	3
Breaking the silence: exploring women’s experiences of participating in the #MeToo movement	3
The problems and intersectional politics of “#BeingFemaleinNigeria”	3
“Counter cinema” in the mainstream	3
Process-based activism and feminist politics in the neoliberal age	3
“Love Jihad,” digital affect, and feminist critique	3
Normalising sexualised violence in popular culture: eroding, erasing and controlling women in rock music	3
Gender status inertia in biographical films: an overview of the motion picture industry from 1900 to 2017	3
Adolescent gender differences in internet safety education	3
Gendering political conflict: the racialized and dehumanized use of gender on Facebook	3
Women’s epistolary cinema: exploring female alterities: epistolary films and epistolary essay films	3
Gendered power relations in the digital age: an analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context	3
“I can’t believe your mixed ass wasn’t on the pill!”: race and abortion on American scripted television, 2008-2019	3
The generational cohort analysis of empowerment and woman’s portrayals in femvertising	3
“Remember to breathe (but don’t make a sound!)”: constructions of childbirth in post-apocalyptic narratives	3
Locating disability within online body positivity discourses: an analysis of #DisabledAndCute	3
Who gets to speak? Sources in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean press	3
“Beauties by the political figures:” professional female interpreters in Chinese media	3
#AverageYetConfidentMen: Chinese stand-up comedy and feminist discourse on Douyin	3
Feel the suspense! masculine positions and emotional interpellations in Swedish sports betting commercials	3
Turning points from victim to survivor: an examination of sexual violence narratives	3
Blaming and shaming in the shadow structure: individual resistance towards gender equality work as expressions of social conflict	3
The stigma of feminism: disclosures and silences regarding female disadvantage in the video game industry in US and Finnish media stories	3
Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-13	3
The Hockey Girls. The creation of a new collective subject: sisterhood and the empowerment of women	3
Run like a mother: running, race, and the shaping of motherhood under Covid-19	3
“A baby bump for women’s rights”: analysing Local and International Media Coverage of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Pregnancy	3
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia: media discourses about women and alcohol consumption	3

Gender imbalance in MMORPG: the case of World of Warcraft in Brazil	3
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel	3
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China	3
Disclosing gender-based violence online: strengthening feminist collective agency or creating further vulnerabilities?	3
The Tyranny of openness: what happened to peer production?	3
Feminism, activism and non-consensual pornography: analyzing efforts to end “revenge porn” in the United States	3
Hectic slowness: digital temporalities of precarious care from a Global South perspective	3
“You’re not here for the right reasons!” From The Bachelorette to Instagram Influencer	3
Diane Keaton’s late films: aging gracefully for the silvering screen	2
Witnessing #MeToo in Japan: mapping digital footprints in online news comment sections	2
The gender of the meme: women and protest media in populist Hungary	2
An old mind in a young body: womanhood between oppression and expression in Miss Granny	2
Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema	2
#Answerusyoutube: predatory influencers and cross-platform insulation	2
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’	2
“A queer black woman invented rock-and-roll”: Rosetta Tharpe, memes, and memory practices in the digital age	2
“Oh for the days when men were men”: constructing, defending and justifying masculinity in newspaper comment forums – a critique	2
An ethnographic co-design approach to promoting diversity in the games industry	2
Evelyn Preer and Black female stardom in the silent film era	2
What the reimagination of Breonna Taylor’s (after)life reveals	2
Weaponizing neutrality: the entanglement of policing, affect, and surveillance technologies	2
Low Femme, low theory: memes and the new bedroom culture	2
For Better or Worse: A Gendered Outlook of the films The Leisure Seeker and Alaska	2
Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain	2
After account bombing: Chinese digital feminists haunt platform censorship as cyber living ghosts	2
Migrant mothers and neoliberal feminism: diasporic audience research on the Korean reality show strangers	2
Agents of Chaos: The Monstrous Feminine in Killing Eve	2
Contentious practices of postfeminist audiencing: online discourse about cinematic feminisms in Birds of Prey	2
Perception of sexual violence in Tamil movies by Malaysian Indian viewers	2
Irrational exuberance: cuteness as affective bubble in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	2
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War	2
Entangled with the necropolis: a decolonial feminist analysis of femicide news coverage in Latin America	2
Middle-aged women’s tears: rethinking Chinese popular feminism throughSisters Who Make Waves	2
#metoo in China: visceral accounts of rape culture, a non-domestic feminist counterpublic, and networked solidarity	2
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok	2
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring	2
The digital life of caste: affect, synesthesia and the social body online	2
Notable enough? The questioning of women’s biographies on Wikipedia	2
Mistresses, mothers, and headscarves: media representations of women in corruption scandals in Indonesia	2
The Hidden Work of Women: Commissioning and Development in British Television Drama	2
“My dear unwanted”: media discourse on sex-selective abortion in Montenegro	2
Gendered spatial structuring in Moroccan feminist movies	2
The politics of veiling and unveiling	2
Get your head out of the game: framing of sportswomen and concussions	2
“Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” and the Regressive Visibility of the Diverse Late Night Writers’ Room	2
Gender and Transnational Media	2
Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements	2
‘Never infuriate a creature that bleeds for successive seven days’: (un)supportive discourses of Chinese male netizens on dysmenorrhea	2
Memeing back at misogyny: emerging meme-feminism, visual tactics, and aesthetic world-building on Iranian social media	2
Editors’ introduction: the twentieth anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies	2
Immanent cinematic girlhoods: the ordinary affects in/ofEighth Grade	2
Women’s narratives inhibiting scopophilic and voyeuristic views: woman as the saviour in contemporary Turkish women’s films	2
Non-binary gender identity and algorithmic-psychometric marketing legibility	2
The womb as Battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese Social Media	2
“She’s just another pretty face:” sexual harassment of female photographers	2
Forging a more masculine self online: demonstrating skill and sovereignty in the playing of first-person shooter games	2
“Pick-Me” Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere	2
Media and violence against women in the Basque Country: a self-regulation case study	2
Shrinking communicative space for media and gender equality civil society organizations	2
‘An indie voice for a generation of women’?: Greta Gerwig, and female authorship post #Metoo	2
Transnational (post)feminist television drama made in Spain	2
“Just like everyone else:” queer representation in postmillennial Bollywood	2
Posthuman fantasies: is Love, Death & Robots or women, violence & antihumanism?	2
The quirky intimacy of femme mental health memes	2
Hegemonic masculinities and femininities in food industry packaging	2
“It’s what the suffragettes would have wanted”: the construction of the suffragists and suffragettes on Mumsnet	2
Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? Toward a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film	2
Choosing recovery: postfeminist empowerment and the embodied self-brand	2
Reading is fun-da- mental : queering queer “safe” spaces within drag culture	2
Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale	2
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence	2
Beauty, baby and backlash? Anti-feminist influencers on TikTok	2
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and h	2
Grieving the ambiguous online: pregnancy loss, meaning making and celebrity on Twitter	2
#Metoo in practice: revisiting social media’s influence in individual willingness to mobilize against sexual assault	2
Arab women’s activism in a transnational media landscape: negotiating gendered spaces	2
Privacy in collapsed contexts of displacement	2
“I don’t just want to look female; I want to be beautiful”: theorizing passing as labor in the transition vlogs of Gigi Gorgeous and Natalie Wynn	2
Deferring gender equality until the next generation: evidence of the persistence of postfeminist discourse in advertising	2
“Moderate” gendering in Swedish gambling advertisements	2
Analyzing cultural politics through the “dancing body”: a study of Assamese item songs in India	2
Comedy’s double killjoy: workers’ DIY strategies to address harassment and precarity in the comedy industry	2
A New Doll in Texas: a feminist media analysis of senator wendy davis’s rhetorical framing as “Abortion Barbie”	2
Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study	2
Slothful Movements: Disability, Acceleration, and Capacity Feminism in Disney’s Zootopia (2016)	2
Achieving postfeminist ideals: a study of Chinese female wanghongs and their self-framing on social media	2
Feminism at the movies: sex, gender, and identity in contemporary American teen cinema	2
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)	2
“Female empowerment is being commercialized”: online reception of girl crush trend among feminist K-pop fans	2
“No wrong way to be a woman”: media coverage of Serena Williams as a mother	2
Paid, domestic, and emotional work in the precariat: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You	2