International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article analyzes Southern Living magazine’s (1966-) growth into a total lifestyle brand across numerous media platforms. The magazine and its transmedia extensions have shaped southern lif…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Faced with offline discrimination, LGBTQIA+ users frequently turn to social media to find role models, build social networks and test out new forms of self-expression. Each platform has its own affordances and governance pr…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. This study explores resistance used by Ukrainian companies on Kickstarter during the Russo-Ukrainian war, examining how it intertwines with commercial promotion. The analysis focuses on 22 English-language …
Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. Poverty talk has far-reaching effects at personal and society level. Overwhelmingly negative narratives undermine mental health of people in poverty and forces them in a position to cope with, resist and contradi…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Research on platforms and cultural production is dominated by studies that take the Anglo-American world and Northwestern Europe as their main points of reference. Central concepts in the field…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Has China become a neo-colonizer, exporting its cultural and economic power to the world based on its agenda of building soft power? Existing scholarship on neocolonialism and data colonialism …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines emerging rural creator cultures in South India. Specifically, it focuses on the uptake and production of YouTube videos by village creators, a relatively understudied but …
Convergence, Ahead of Print. With the recent development of debunking on social media as a dominant agenda, fact checkers have increasingly used machine learning (ML) to identify, verify and correct factual claims, as ML promises the scaling of fact ch…