In "Preface: Space Invaders revisited", Jo Littler and Anamik Saha introduce the special issue dedicated to Nirmal Puwar's monumental book. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Anila Anandan and Shyamkiran Kaur reviewed Åsa Johannesson's 'Queer Methodology for Photography' for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Investment obligations for global streamers as a wind of hope for the peripheral markets in Europe", Ivana Kostovska et al. analyse effects of investment obligations for transnational streamers as policy measures in Croatia and Poland. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Rogue readings of a flashpoint moment: The double-edged sword of Adolescence", Debbie Ging and Catherine R. Baker argue that 'Adolescence' inadvertently operates in the service of anti-progressive agendas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Annelot Prins reviewed Briony Hannell's "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘Adolescence’, manufactured outrage and instructed victimhood: How the discourse on boys’ alienation is fuelled by anti-feminist agendas", Steven Roberts et al. advocate for relational and ethical understandings of masculinity. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Sound, power and participation: A conversation on the aurality of the House of Commons", @duncanwhitley.bsky.social explores how the sounding cultures of the House of Commons affect whose voices are heard. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Man enough to kill, boy enough to cry: Liminality and irresolvability in Adolescence", Kathryn Claire Higgins (@kat-hig.bsky.social) considers the television show Adolescence, using the show’s title as an entry point for analysis and critique. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects", Timothy Havens examines international media production in Budapest (HU) to think through the intersections of film/television locations and spatial politics. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher", Jack Black, Jim Cherrington and Samuel M. Clevenger critically interrogate contemporary manifestations of capitalist sport. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘As I get older, I am more and more comfortable in myself’", Sanna Kivimäki and Kirsi Lumme-Sandt provide an overview of understandings of older age and gender in the Finnish 50 + magazine ET from the 1970s to the 2010s. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In "Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas", @ozanmask.bsky.social and Selinay Yılmazer Öcal explore how viewers engage with the diverse and conflicting meanings presented in television dramas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere", Danielle Procope Bell argues that acknowledging the existence of the Black manosphere is important to combat violence against Black girls and women. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "The significance of place in book publishing: Insights from community publishing in regional Australia", Beth Driscoll et al. demonstrate how researching local places and community publishing reveals a new story of the future of the book. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "The racial optics of crisis: Racialized innocence and the politics of care in adolescence", @capableheart.bsky.social argues that Adolescence depends on the racial legibility of both its perpetrator and his victim. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Manosphere creep: Emotional and hermeneutic labour in Netflix's Adolescence", Meaghan Furlano examines the depiction of emotional and hermeneutic labour in the Netflix series Adolescence. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "The economic logic of right-wing populism in the culture industry", Rico Isaacs demonstrates the importance of focusing on cultural sites in explaining contemporary shifts towards right-wing populism and conspiratorial discourse. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "A care continuum", Daren Shi-Chi Leung examines Hong Kong’s food waste management through the concept of a ‘care continuum’ that spans from technologically-driven governance to community-embedded practices. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’", Esperanza Herrero tries to recover some of the alternative approaches and epistemic practices in the history of the field of communication. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Silver-haired heroines", Femke de Sutter examines the tropes used to portray older women in popular Belgian fiction films from 1945 to 2022 through qualitative content analysis. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Meme-ing while the world burns", Benjamin Litherland and Rachel Wood make a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space", Eric Fan Feng demonstrates how hospital artworks reveal today’s caring space’s aesthetic and cultural transformation. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Journeying into the liminal unknown", Peter Bryant argues zine-makers and readers view liminality as a destination, rather than a way station to more ‘normal’ social structures. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’", Delia Dumitrica et al. argue that online humor about the COVID-19 pandemic both politicized and depoliticized the figure of the politician. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "A 90-minute space in the week that was truly theirs: English football fans and the European Super League", Kate Oakley argues that a democratised version of arts and culture has to re-localise culture without parochialism. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "AI Séance", Hope Schroeder, Amy Smith and Ziv Epstein argue AI Séances offer a model for human-centered interaction with generative systems where magic lies not in the machine’s capabilities, but in our collective ability to create meaning. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Our new issue (28:4) is out now! Read it on our website: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ECS/curr...

In "‘A Howl of Despair’: The affective politics of Netflix’s Adolescence" @tanyah.bsky.social explores the strong affective appeal of Netflix’s Adolescence for its adult audiences. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop" Ash Watson, Suzanne Grasso, Cora Zon and @paullongmedia.bsky.social reflect on zine-making workshops as potential commons spaces. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda", Jian Xu and Florian Schneider propose viewing influencer propaganda as a near-global political activity that can be found in both domestic and external spheres. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "From victimhood to victimcould", @kat-hig.bsky.social theorizes how far-right cultural politics leverage hypothetical injuries and imaginary futures to justify agendas of social violence. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "From copycat to magical monkey", Xiao Lu and Hong Yu Liu provide a comprehensive analysis of video game development culture in China, exploring its historical, social and institutional dimensions. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance", Michela Ardizzoni explores the pivotal role of podcasts in challenging dominant cultural narratives about race, diversity, and identity in Italy. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’", Tommy Tse and Fan Xiao wonder why certain clothing items are considered unwearable by the owner, yet still remain unworn in the wardrobe. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Calibrated structures of feeling: Cultural citizenship and the reproduction of the military in Singapore", John Lowe and George Wong examine National Service in the Singapore Armed Forces as a rite of passage into manhood. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to see this piece out at last - open access. 'Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop' was collectively authored with @awtsn.bsky.social Watson, Suzanne Grasso and Cora Zon and features a downloadable version of the 'zine we made together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In "Streaming video and diasporic worldmaking: Race, ethnicity, and religion in the Anglophone West" @aswinp.bsky.social, Julia Giese, Diwas Bisht and Sim Gill examine how Muslimness in Western television entertainment is being reimagined. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Unearthing fonts from a creative Chinese past", Laura Vermeeren shows how in contemporary font design, national interest, creativity, and Chineseness become mutually constitutive. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In "Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey", Uğur Baloğlu and Yıldız Derya Birincioglu examine the role of cultural products in the adaptation processes of immigrants to new cultural environments. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Right-wing extremism and the limits of community in Zerocalcare’s This World Can’t Tear Me Down", Adam Muller examines the representation of right-wing extremism in This World Can't Tear Me Down. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey", Uğur Baloğlu and Yıldız Derya Birincioglu examine the role of cultural products in the adaptation processes of immigrants to new cultural environments. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Streaming video and diasporic worldmaking: Race, ethnicity, and religion in the Anglophone West" @aswinp.bsky.social, Julia Giese, Diwas Bisht and Sim Gill examine how Muslimness in Western television entertainment is being reimagined. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media", Yin Zhang examines the cultural participation of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong within digital media. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Tragic symbolism in Soviet Armenian visual art: The legacy of Valentin Podpomogov", @arturishkhanyan.bsky.social examines Valentin Podpomogov’s contributions to Soviet Armenian visual art. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘I’m an androgynous tomboy with tattoos’: Amber and (re)imaginations of gender and Koreanness in K-pop", @michellehsho.bsky.social explores how Taiwanese American singer-songwriter Amber challenges gender and sexuality norms in South Korea. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Our new issue (28:3) is out now! Read it on our website.

In "Talking on oppression", Nur Tuğçe Biga and Hasan Gürkan examine the representations of female sexuality in 'À Nos Amours' and 'Benim Sinemalarım' from the perspectives of six women involved in the Turkish Women’s Defense Network. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Weiru Cheng reviewed Anonio A Casilli's "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In "Un/doing 'business' in Cape Town: Narratives of gender queer sex workers", Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki asks what it means to 'do business' for gender queer sex workers in South Africa. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....