We are presenting the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. This week's article is “Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication”, authored by Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller.

We are presenting the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. This week's article is “‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism”, authored by Marcel van den Haak, Liedeke Plate, and Selina Bick.

In this series, we present the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. The first article is “Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction”, authored by James P. Walsh.

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What and where is Cultural Studies today? What is it becoming? What should or could it become? What is its meaning? What is at stake as we assess the ongoing development and maturation of Cultural Studies as field?

We publish theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity.

In IJCS: @anirbanbaishya.bsky.social explores the new resurgence of global, far right nationalisms fueled by digital technologies through the case of the media event around the release and reception of The Kashmir Files in India in 2022. buff.ly/JNZKNuj

Read about the the commodification of folk music at the peak of the Telangana movement, along with the resulting resistance. Vamshi Vemireddy and Sasi Kiran R. Mallam analyze the speeches made by the leading members of the cultural front: buff.ly/xwqTFqz

@fkaponytail.bsky.social analyzes Southern Living magazine's growth into a total lifestyle brand across numerous media platforms, using Habersham, an Inspired Community near Beaufort, South Carolina as a case study. buff.ly/x4rt588

How does anime contribute to the creation of a culture that attracts autistic individuals and support their lives? Rose, Galbraith, and Thomas-Parr uncover new directions in autism and fan culture research. buff.ly/DtF8ddp

How are Public Service Media (PSM) rethinking the ways in which they achieve core public values? Iordache et al. propose a theoretical framework based on the operationalisation of platformisation in PSM policy documents and strategy: https://buff.ly/4hjGE46

"What is [a challenge for] cultural studies?" Dr. Laura Guimarães Corrêa argues, mainly using the scholarship of Black feminism, that we should turn our lens to intersectionality and production from the margins (IJCS Vol 24.6, 2020): https://buff.ly/3PF0H12

In our What is Cultural Studies series, we move from the digital to the futurist: Dr. Devon Powers suggests that "cultural studies is a future-oriented discipline" (IJCS Vol 23.4, 2020). https://buff.ly/3E2btfm

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What should a postdigital cultural studies look like? Dr. Sarah Murry raises questions around digital economies of attention to answer our provocation, "What is Cultural Studies?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020): https://buff.ly/3W5899k

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In "#Nature is trending: Social media, viral landscapes, & digital environmental activism in Oman," Smith examines the mediatization of relations with nature—the more-than-human world—in the Arabian Gulf country of Oman: https://buff.ly/3YDWlvl

Through a feminist critique that utilizes Inter-Asian referencing, Ng Man Chuen problematizes the issue of removing the human voice from the female body to make it widely usable as a medium of expression: https://buff.ly/49q8zN4

Really interesting article on ‘staying grounded’ when analysing experiential data. Achieving a synthesis between theoretical frameworks, broader academic discourse and empirical data is something I am constantly reiterating to my MA students.

"What is Cultural Studies" in the context of "Actually Existing Culture?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020). Dr. Benjamin Woo "argue[s] for the importance of staying grounded in the analysis of real people’s real experiences of culture": https://buff.ly/3BA2P6L

How do Marxist platform-dependent cultural producers in Brazil navigate platform spaces in relation to their identities and everyday work? Karhawi & @grohmannrafael.bsky.social investigate in "Struggling with platforms":

In "‘What eating disorders are really like,’" Benzel, @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social, Nadj, & Rashid explore eating disorder and recovery videos on TikTok which show young women who proclaim to raise awareness or depict the recovery process:

Dr. Johan Fornäs "cross[es] borders and defend[s] distinctions" in the next article in our "What is Cultural Studies?" series (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020). How well has the field succeeded in "diversity, contextualization and critique?" https://buff.ly/3ONJC4n

Check out "The politics of credit in remix of Japanese popular culture: Between 'an 80's Japanese disco floor' and 'this remix is worthy of the actual game'” in Vol 27.5 of IJCS!

Next up in "What is Cultural Studies?" @couldrynick.bsky.social asks, "Can we / should we reinvent it?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020). After reading, tell us your thoughts on the place of cultural studies internationally in our socio-political moment: https://buff.ly/3OO4QiI

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In "Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos," Xu and Wilson analyze Chinese K-pop fan responses to ‘Rica Rica.’ Read their analysis now:

What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):

What are the impediments faced by diasporic influencers? Learn about how racial discourses shape and challenge creator cultures in this article from @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @producing2power.bsky.social:

How do influencers establish agency amidst precarious working conditions both on and off platforms? Read "Platform lethargy: Relational work perspective on influencer precarity" from Tinca Lukan & Jožica Čehovin Zajc:

Learn about the effects of philanthrocapitalism on the beneficiaries of the Google News Initiative in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East in this paper from Munoriyarwa, de-Lima-Santos, Mesquita, and Elega:

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