Discourse &Communication, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 21-36, February 2022. The use of language and images in the media may have a strong effect on people’s political cognition. In this regard, conspiracy theories and misinformation about the COVID-19…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 34-55, January 2022. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodie…
Convergence, Volume 27, Issue 6, Page 1558-1570, December 2021. Public attention on disconnection and digital detox focuses on the health and wellbeing associated with disconnecting without much attention on what happens to selfhood or identity when ab…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 74-88, January 2022. Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool fo…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 107-125, January 2022. Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics reveal…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Players in the European market have developed a series of transnational collaborations and practices in the cross-border production and distribution of audio-visual content, media ownership, regulation and audience receptio…
Convergence, Volume 27, Issue 6, Page 1648-1662, December 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic, China has implemented the most stringent lockdown measures across major cities during moments of heightened risk of infection. This mechanism is aided by the …
Convergence, Volume 27, Issue 6, Page 1753-1769, December 2021. This paper examines a nascent network of commercial DIY gay porn production by microcelebrities in China against the background of platformization, commodification, and illiberal cultural …
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In an era of datafication, data visualisation is playing an increasing role in civic meaning-making processes. However, the conventions of data visualisation have been criticised for their reductiveness and rhetoric of neut…
Convergence, Volume 27, Issue 6, Page 1571-1583, December 2021. In this contribution, I do not engage in digital disconnection merely as an empirical phenomenon but as a way of seeing digital culture and as a heuristic. I do not ask whether or not digi…