International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Transmedia storytelling is a strategy adopted by media franchises and brands to create participatory story-worlds for their consumers; it incorporates a range of forms, actors, and texts, all o…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. There is a major blindspot regarding our understanding of different structural models of platformization beyond the dominant Anglo-American markets. This article develops a typology of politica…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the influence of YouTube’s monetization metrics on content creation practices and their reflection of geopolitical and economic factors. Using the case study of “Team …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the influence of YouTube’s monetization metrics on content creation practices and their reflection of geopolitical and economic factors. Using the case study of “Team …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The short-video platform TikTok/Douyin becomes a space not only for individuals to express and articulate their interests, but also for the authorities to negotiate with the public on various i…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. ‘Diversity’ is a heavily freighted and multivalent keyword in the global digital media environment. The recommender systems used by platforms are particularly acute sites of development and deb…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Focusing on intermediation in cultural production in a digital ecology consisting of multiple platforms mediating simultaneously converging and diverging industries, this study critically engag…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Focusing on intermediation in cultural production in a digital ecology consisting of multiple platforms mediating simultaneously converging and diverging industries, this study critically engag…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. On 7 November 2020, strange things were happening in the comments to @realDonaldTrump’s tweet erroneously arguing that he had won the US presidential election, ‘BY A LOT’. Posting quote tweets …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Lima, Peru, this study explores how Latin fans think about and negotiate K-pop industries’ citations of Latin pop music tropes. It addresses…