International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. What sparks collective acts of resistance to workplace inequality? This article considers the Covid-19 (C-19) pandemic as an interruption to established practices of creative work, one that cre…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The political implications of reading practices have been a key concern in cultural studies since its beginning. Studying the process of reading, in various media and generic contexts, is cruci…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Contemporary Chinese digital creative industries are no longer a realm of self-entrepreneurship, with multi-channel networks (MCNs) playing a significant role in shaping the digital labor marke…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. How does the precarity of creative work iterate with the precarity of creative spaces? In answer, we examine Covid-19 pandemic experiences of workers across diverse creative sectors in Sydney, …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Ever-present mass surveillance has blocked the flourishing of a traditional dissident culture in Turkey. Focusing on popular ‘just for fun’ Instagram accounts during the lira’s freefall that be…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Recent years have seen a significant surge in the global popularity of Chinese webnovels as an emerging form of participatory transcultural storytelling. This research combines computational an…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Recent years have seen a significant surge in the global popularity of Chinese webnovels as an emerging form of participatory transcultural storytelling. This research combines computational an…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September 2022 prompted a predictable saturation of representations across all UK media. A lot of ‘traditional’ media, like the BBC, largely assumed, and hence att…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article considers how house-sharing – sharing a home with other, usually unrelated people – is mediated by digital technologies. Drawing on academic literature on house-sharing and self-(r…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Since the late 1990s the transnational spread of South Korean media, known as the Korean Wave or Hallyu, has filtered into North Korea through smuggling and black markets. The act of consuming …