International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The article examines the intersection between two key fields in which international migrants respond to displacement and negotiate a sense of home: digital media and religion. The example chose…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article presents a detailed qualitative content analysis of eating disorder and recovery videos on TikTok which show young women who proclaim to raise awareness or depict the recovery proc…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article analyzes how Marxist platform-dependent cultural producers in Brazil – one woman and two drag queens – navigate platform spaces in relation to their identities and everyday work. S…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This study builds on theories of user imaginaries by examining how LGBTQ+ creators in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany respond to perceived algorithmic bias. Through observation and close r…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. In recent years, media organizations globally have increasingly benefited from financial support from digital platforms. In 2018, Google launched the Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Cha…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines how influencers establish agency amidst precarious working conditions both on and off platforms. Findings from over 50 in-depth interviews show that influencers in Sloveni…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper investigates the intersection of racism, nationality, and the global Latin American influencer dream. It examines the experiences of Latin American influencers in the United States, …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. We discuss the concept of love presented in a set of songs composed by Brazilian samba singer Dona Ivone Lara about romantic and sexual relationships. Popular music is a pervasive kind of media…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. In Produce Camp 2021, an online Chinese talent show, an underdog named Lelush rose to fame as a slack laborer icon. This study investigated this case through a critical discourse analysis incor…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Influenced by social media and COVID-19, human relations with ‘nature’ are increasingly shaped by media infrastructures and logics, leading to a global surge of interest in nature tourism and o…