Media, Culture & Society Journal

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How are #Indigenous screen industries reshaping global cinema? Anders Grønlund & Stine Agnete Sand examine Arctic collaboration in Sápmi & Kalaallit Nunaat, highlighting Indigenous-led screen sectors as models for ultrasmall industries globally. #OnlineFirst
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How are parents navigating screen-time advice amid conflicting guidelines and moral panic? Stephanie C Milford calls for reframing digital parenting as a relational practice embedded in sociotechnical systems and collective care. #DigitalParenting #OnlineFirst
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How do Muslim podcasts create digital counterpublics in the Anglosphere? Shaheen Amid Whyte uses digital ethnography to examine how Muslim-owned platforms reclaim self-agency and construct online publics across the UK, US & Australia. #Islam #OnlineFirst
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What’s driving the politics of social media #tradwives? Meaghan Furlano argues that tradwife critiques of feminism misdiagnose structural discontent, redirecting attention away from monopoly capitalism.
#Gender #DigitalCulture #AntiFeminism #OnlineFirst
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How do streaming platforms imagine the #SouthAsian diaspora? Anirban K. Baishya & Darshana S. Mini show how services like Sling TV & ZEE5 Global construct “South Asia” as both a territorial brand & a lucrative diasporic market. #OnlineFirst
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How can media foster accountability in environmental justice? Nduka N. Nwankpa, Leton C. Kuru & Ngozi A. Onwuka analyse #Nigeria’s #Ogoniland clean-up. They reveal gaps between rhetoric & action, and urging stronger media advocacy. #OnlineFirst
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What defines media production in the platform era? @drtvlotz.bsky.social introduces the idea of “hosted media” & “simple-professional” creation to trace how social video transform creative autonomy & capitalist constraints. #OnlineFirst
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How does TikTok reshape feminist responses to sexualized violence? Annabella Backes, @mluenenborg.bsky.social & Kerstin Schankweiler analyse activism around the #Mazan rape cases, showing how affective media practices shift shame & build solidarity. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Travelling with(in) critical AI studies: An east Asian standpoint - Hiu-Fung Chung, 2025 How does critical AI studies itself travel, and what happens when it arrives elsewhere? This commentary reflects on the global circulation of critique from the ...

How does #CriticalAIStudies travel across cultures? From an East Asian standpoint, Hiu-Fung Chung introduces “tangle, transplant & transmute” to trace how local histories, imaginaries & ethics reshape global critique of AI. #OnlineFirst
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In this new #OnlineFirst article, @elenaescalanteb.bsky.social & @jblockx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy show how EU outlets amplified institutional voices, serving as both tools for policy legitimation & arenas for elite influence.
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How does #CommunityRadio shape rural identities & participation? Aniruddha Jena & @mphayward.bsky.social examine Radio Dhimsa in Eastern India, showing how broadcasting in the Desia dialect fosters belonging, preserves culture & amplifies marginalised voices.
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Why is the everyday crucial for understanding online contention in China? Jeroen de Kloet & Thomas Poell show how WeChat users weave sensitive issues into daily talk, negotiating censorship & surveillance while remaining exposed to repression.
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Toward a media maintenance approach (MEMA): Maintenance as a theoretical tool for media studies - Riccardo Ferrigato, Gabriele Balbi, 2025 This paper introduces and discusses a theoretical approach for media scholars: the media maintenance approach (MEMA). Maintenance is not a new subject of study ...

"Toward a media maintenance approach (MEMA): Maintenance as a theoretical tool for media studies” written by @riccardoferrigato.bsky.social and myself

Maintenance is not (only) about technology and can be helpulf to different media scholars. Agree?

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How is ‘antisemitism’ invoked in The Jewish Chronicle? @gordonneve.bsky.social shows how the paper has exaggerated & instrumentalised the term, fueling moral panic & legitimising racial governance especially around Oct 7, 2023. #OnlineFirst
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Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies - Qiuxin Chen, Yuanyuan Shi, Yeheng Pan, 2025 Focusing on the use of the loudspeaker during the COVID-19 emergency in Shanghai in 2022, this study explores the evolving roles and sociotechnical imaginaries ...

What role did loudspeakers play in Shanghai’s #COVID19 emergency? Qiuxin Chen, Yuanyuan Shi & Yeheng Pan show how this traditional medium shifted from authority & coercion to fostering emotion, cultural connection & cooperation. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Why do #TV workers stay in a precarious industry? @ninawillment.bsky.social & Jack Newsinger argue that sunk cost fallacy—linked to cultural, social & symbolic capital—keeps professionals in UK television production. #OnlineFirst

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Digital divide revisited during and beyond COVID-19 - Deqiang Ji, Haodong She, 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the significance of the “digital divide”; however, its research terminology remains inconsistent, and the intersection of ...

How did #COVID19 reshape the #DigitalDivide? Deqiang Ji & Haodong She explore digital inequality through a scoping review (2020–2022), revealing how the pandemic intensified exclusion & calling for strategies that address deeper social structures. #OnlineFirst
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Female voices in Spanish sports media: The case of Marca and Mundo Deportivo - Nahuel Ivan Faedo, Xavier Ginesta, Montse Corrius, 2025 This research aims to examine, from a gender perspective, female journalists’ perceptions of their roles and their evolution in the Spanish sports press, focusi...

How equal is sports journalism in Spain? Nahuel Ivan Faedo, Xavier Ginesta & Montse Corrius explore the experiences of women journalists in Spain. Despite some advances, gendered barriers & limited participation in content production persist. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Rethinking work in the creator economy: Insights from labor process theory - Afshin Omidi, 2025 While previous research has empirically examined the factors that shape and characterize the social relations in and around work among content creators, a compr...

How do social media platforms shape labour in the #CreatorEconomy? Afshin Omidi applies labour process theory to show how #algorithms control productivity, redefine creative skills, & erode creators’ autonomy—benefiting platforms above all. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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How can we better understand the structure of social media feeds? Christoph Bareither and Sabine Wirth introduce the feed-as-assemblage framework to explore how algorithms, interfaces and practices curate value across Instagram and TikTok. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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How does illicit media influence the decision to leave North Korea? Youna Kim draws on interviews with North Koreans to show how underground cultural flows enable mediated migration & disrupt state control in one of the world’s most closed societies #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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How do journalists sustain democracy under autocratization? Gary Tang and colleagues explore how Hong Kong’s online journalists continue their work post-NSL, navigating risk and resisting democratic backsliding through everyday practice.
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What does #decolonization really mean in media studies? Tanja Bosch insists it must be rooted in anti-capitalist praxis and citation politics, challenging extractive academic hierarchies and advocating for insurgent, relational scholarship. #OnlineFirst
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How is influencer culture reshaping the sport–media landscape? Fujak, Evens & McLeod show how Gen Z and Alpha audiences are driving a shift from elite performance to personality-led content & algorithmic entertainment in global sport #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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What does it cost to speak out as a feminist in Pakistan’s digital public sphere? Muhammad Ahsan & Farahat Ali reveal how activists face gendered online abuse & real-world threats, yet continue resisting through care, strategy and collective strength #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Jiayi Chen & Chang Shi analyse how official administrators on Chinese social media platforms construct governance legitimacy through boundary discourse. #OnlineFirst
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Encoding/decoding in artificial intelligence: Global AI and local languages - FengYi Yin, 2025 Amid artificial intelligence rapidly transforming our social life, this article uses Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model to critically assess the design and u...

How do #AI systems reinforce global power imbalances in language? FengYi Yin applies Hall’s encoding/decoding model to reveal how generative AI privileges dominant ideologies while marginalising African languages. Can critical user agency resist this trend? journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Held in trust: Relational sovereignties and the affective life of communication - Karl Patrick R Mendoza, 2025 This essay reflects on how trust is lived, performed, and morally negotiated in public life, drawing on the author’s experience as a Filipino scholar trained in...

What does it mean to be held in trust across cultures?
@kprmendoza.bsky.social draws from Filipino and Māori concepts to propose relational sovereignties—affective, situated forms of trust, care & belonging in communication. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#NewPublication (Media, Culture & Society): ‘Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television’.

A huge thank you to all the Aus television creatives and executives who took part.

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How does diplomacy shape cultural production? Taeyoung Kim’s study on China’s Korean Limitation Order shows how political tensions disrupted South Korean TV projects and exposed the fragile ties between diplomacy and media industries. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....