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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437251380153

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...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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....

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...

Jiayi Chen & Chang Shi analyse how official administrators on Chinese social media platforms construct governance legitimacy through boundary discourse. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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...

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. doi.org/10.1177/0163...

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....

How do anonymous platforms like Queering the Map & PostSecret create intimate publics? Olivia Sutherland & @megansharp.bsky.social show how anonymity and ephemeral connections reveal new forms of digital intimacy. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How do balloons & rural base stations shape Africa’s internet future? Miao Lu uses a volumetric lens to analyze Google Loon & Huawei RuralStar’s competing infrastructures—highlighting new socio-technical imaginaries of connection. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Can liberal democracies regulate the attention economy? Gunn Enli finds major obstacles—public scepticism, limited trust, and weak policy instruments. A call to rethink digital regulation strategies. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What makes queer studies in #Indonesia distinct? Hendri Yulius Wijaya offers internationalist localism as a method—bridging global & local knowledge while spotlighting precarity and resistance beyond institutions. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Can queer language challenge both colonial pasts & neoliberal presents? Kaustav Bakshi explores how India’s #hijra/ #kothi lexicon & radical poetic forms unsettle global sexual identity norms. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What happens when queerness is tied to entrepreneurial success? Ling Tang’s burnout queerness shows how queer female entrepreneurs in urban China navigate unstable homonormativity under post-socialist neoliberalism. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What are we really doing when we say Queer Asia as Method? Song Hwee Lim critiques celebratory discourses of Asia & calls for deeper reflection on theory, bias, and the stakes of queering knowledge. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What if we read Mr. Robot & Uterus Man through a queer techno-Asian lens? @ianliujiatian.bsky.social proposes queer techno-orientalism as method to imagine reparative tech futures for Chinese queer/trans bodies. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia #TechnoOrientalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What happens when we centre ‘Asias’ in queer critique? The Queer Asia as Method editorial introduces a powerful framework to decolonise queer studies. #OnlineFirst @liangge11.bsky.social @jdanielluther.bsky.social @evacyli.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What is extractive journalism? Cristina Mislán, Damilola Oduolowu & Isabella Zielinski use interviews with local reporters & Black residents to expose how climate journalism can reproduce racial & class injustices—even at the local level. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How do diasporic archivists preserve endangered South Asian media? Hassan Asif examines Discostan & Hamnawa as community-driven digital archives challenging Western frameworks. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What keeps community radio alive? Bridget Backhaus & @ass-prof-ando.bsky.social show how the affective labour of volunteers is the heart of community radio, weaving people and voices together to sustain diverse media spaces. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How does extreme heat reshape city life and media? Ayesha Omer reveals #Karachi’s 2015 #heatwave as a “thermal ecology” where citizen activism, data-driven governance, & visual art respond to urban heat’s violent impacts. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hi Mama, bye privacy? Jessica Baldwin-Philippi & @mogprof.bsky.social study 5 major US daycare apps to reveal how tech is reshaping parenting & care work—reinforcing gendered norms and ideals of “intensive parenting.” #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What drives people to watch Basque public TV? Over a decade of data shows it’s not just language or age—but #Basque national identity & party affiliation. Doménech-Beltrán & Valera-Ordaz reveal how Basque public television sits between culture & nation building journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What if Big Tech’s power is built on narrative? @pettertornberg.com argues that hype in #surveillancecapitalism isn’t just noise—it drives investment & creates self-fulfilling prophecies. A cultural turn in political economy. ‪#OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How do family photos shape memory of Han migration to Xinjiang? Jin Dai examines how images preserve personal stories while intersecting with official nation-building narratives. #OnlineFirst @lborouniversity.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What happens when music royalties become investment assets? D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye shows how the assetization of copyright—via royalty-sharing marketplaces—creates new legal pressures & worsens inequality for musicians. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How are #LGBTQ book bans framed in the media? Laura H. Marshall & Steve Bien-Aimé find that UK, US & Irish newspapers often position bans as “parents’ rights” debates—while rarely including the voices of queer authors themselves. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Can global #AI ethics & policy account for local lives? Payal Arora & @snatale.bsky.social call for grounding AI debates in everyday cultures. By contextualising tech through media & cultural studies, they rethink AI’s role in global-local dynamics. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Is #EileenGu Chinese by being or by becoming? Zhiqiu Benson Zhou & Yang Liu analyse state vs social media discourses in China to show how her identity as a biracial athlete sparked debate—revealing tensions between nationalism & performance. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What happens when journalists say “I”? Jessica Pettengill finds that first-person storytelling in award-winning US podcasts redefines journalism—blending memory, reflexivity & social justice to challenge objectivity and centre marginalised voices. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What happens when creative freedom meets coercive control? Fan Liang introduces tethered labor to explain how MCNs shape and constrain content creation in China’s platform economy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

How is global TV production shaped by private equity? Peter Arne Johnson follows the financial threads behind #PaganPeak to unpack the paradoxes of capital investment. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How do images in newspapers shape our understanding of #femicide? Jane Freeland, Alice Baroni & Melissa Jogie compare UK & Italian media to show how visual framing reinforces national narratives of domestic violence and gender inequality. #OnlineFirst

What happens when #SmartSpeakers enter homes that aren't even officially supported? Raluca Creangă explores how Romanian users adapt smart devices, revealing how “digital housekeeping” often reinforces gendered divisions of labour. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🥳🥳🥳I am extremely happy to share that our first research output on AI chatbot and gamifying digital intimacy, from our Posthuman Digital Intimacies project has now been published by Media Culture & Society! Please do check out here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...

Happy to see this new publication w/ my dear friend Babak Bahador. We fit Benkler et al's propaganda feedback loop concept into James Carey's communication ritual framework, arguing that the logic of the former is explained by the latter. shorturl.at/u0pOF

What does racism look like inside the #advertising industry? Nessa Keddo’s research shows how everyday racism & exclusionary EDI practices shape career progression & reinforce systemic inequalities. @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What if communication isn’t just about exchanging info? Sreedhar Nemmani turns to Himalayan Buddhist thought to reframe communication as an epistemic practice—challenging colonial roots of academic knowledge-making. #OnlineFirst ‪‪@temple.edu‬ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What do people with intellectual #disabilities think about the news? Rebecca Monteleone et al. found that participants want more inclusive journalism, better representation & real change in media access and attitudes. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Environmental and social issues are often invisible in media. Meri Frig & Visa Penttilä show how Nordic journalists act as visibility agents—navigating power, complexity, and misinformation to bring these issues to light. #OnlineFirst #ClimateJustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Digital inclusion isn’t just access—it’s about justice. Victoria Adams & Edward King explore how Brazilian NGOs SILO & AfroGames challenge platform capitalism with community-led approaches to digital culture. #OnlineFirst @bristoluni.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....