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

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

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

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

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437251382020

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437251382016

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437251382012

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....

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

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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437251382000

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

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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437251381988

"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? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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....