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…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article argues for Netflix’ efforts to create a transnational middlebrow, highlighting especially the strategy of visibility politics as a measure to create a metrics for ‘diversity and inclusion’ in a process I call t…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Through the case of MUBI, this article inquires into the changing audience habits with the proliferation of video-on-demand services and the discourse of control and choice, increased mobility, and democratic access. Drawin…
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…
Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8.061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Kl…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print.
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Food consumption in video gaming culture has been linked to convenience, nutritionally poor food, and unconventional eating norms. However, little attention has been given to video gaming and food interactions in mundane se…