Cultural Studies Journals

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American Quarterly	African American Review	Arizona Quarterly
Editor's Note Source: American Quarterly "He Realized the Shabbiness of His Own Self": The Politics of the Illustration of Children in Twain's Adaptation Network Source: American Quarterly The Layers of the Land: Urban Space and the Urban Environment in Judy Baca's The Great Wall of Los Angeles Source: American Quarterly Contingent Property: Sterlin Harjo's Road Stories Source: American Quarterly The (Dis)possession of Gansevoort Peninsula: Devaluation, Sanitation, and Seeing Ghosts Source: American Quarterly "As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches!": The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Source: American Quarterly Solidarity in Incommensurability: Ethnic Studies and the Environmental Humanities Source: American Quarterly Abolish or Abolition Environmentalism? A Conversation Source: American Quarterly	No feed items found.	"More Than the Enormities of an Elah-Gabalus": Reading Poe's "William Wilson" as Transgender Narrative Source: Arizona Quarterly Identity Unbound: Gothic Themes and Posthuman Perspectives in Catherine Lacey's Pew Source: Arizona Quarterly Farewell to Faith: Melville's Pierre and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularization Source: Arizona Quarterly Does Writing Have a Future in the Age of AI? Source: Arizona Quarterly Manifest Deception: Utopic Myth and the Fifties Frontier in L.A. Confidential Source: Arizona Quarterly

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Camera Obscura	Communication and Critical Cultural Studies	Continuum
Register for email updates at: https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura	The incidental progressive politics of the North American Soccer League: a case study in the complex forces behind constraints and possibilities Source: Communication and Critical Cultural Studies By John M. Sloop Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA White nationalist fairytales: The Little Mermaid and neo-segregation in the Breitbart town square Source: Communication and Critical Cultural Studies By Hannah Smith Casey Ryan Kelly Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA Doing critical cultural studies in the age of totalitarian thought Source: Communication and Critical Cultural Studies By Marina Levina Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA Accidentally telling the truth: racial capitalism on the college sports plantation Source: Communication and Critical Cultural Studies By Abraham Iqbal Khan Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA “Wake up, Boo”: race and the performance of wokeness in Big Brother 22 Source: Communication and Critical Cultural Studies By Gretta Blackwell Department of Languages & Communications, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, USA Ambivalent surveillance: teaching in the times of anti-woke Source: Communication and Critical Cultural Studies By Zane Austin Willard Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA	Community as the material basis of creative citizenship in Taiwan and Hong Kong Source: Continuum By Selina Ho Chui-Fun Vivian Ting Wing-Yan a Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Chinab Master Program of Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan Gaza speaks through translation: The politics of language on Palestinian social media Source: Continuum By Sema Üstün Külünk Boğazici University - Translation and Interpreting Studies, Istanbul, Türkiye Japanese City Pop and Gen Z in the US: happy, calm, and automated nostalgia Source: Continuum By Satomi Sugiyama Nello Barile a Communication and Media Studies, Franklin University Switzerland, Sorengo-Lugano, Switzerlandb Department of Communication, Art and Media, IULM University Milano, Milan, Italy Introduction: popular music, revival and renewal: histories, cultures, practices Source: Continuum By Lauren Istvandity Mengyu Luo John Tebbutt a Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australiab School of Communication and Art Design, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, Chinac School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Birch/Muecke/Gibson Source: Continuum By Stephen Muecke Nulungu Research Institute, Notre Dame University Australia, Australia Nonhuman witnessing: war, data, and ecology after the end of the world, by Michael Richardson Source: Continuum By Richard A Carter University of York, UK Spectacularisation of ‘madness’ and the sugarcoated discourse of care in Indonesian social media: a dispositive analysis Source: Continuum By Ratna Noviani Heru Nugroho Derajad Sulistyo Widhyharto Laillia Dhiah Indriani a Media and Cultural Studies Program, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesiab Department of Sociology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Shaping old media on new media: vinyl revival and its representation on Chinese social media Source: Continuum By Mengyu Luo Peipei Yang Jian Xiao a College of Publishing, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, Chinab College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China

Critical Inquiry	Critical Studies in Media Communication	Cultural Politics
Daniel Wright, The Grounds of the Novel Source: Critical Inquiry By Deidre Lynch Front Cover Source: Critical Inquiry Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression Source: Critical Inquiry By Karl Baldacchino Sora Y. Han, Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition Source: Critical Inquiry By Mee-Ju Ro Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization Source: Critical Inquiry By Thomas J. Millay Front Matter Source: Critical Inquiry Ramzi Fawaz, Queer Forms Source: Critical Inquiry By Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind Source: Critical Inquiry By Elizabeth A. Wilson	The extraction ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By James Fitzgerald Rose Marie Santini Débora Salles a School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Dublin, Irelandb School of Communications, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilc School of Communications, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By Christine Choi University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Live from the underground: a history of college radio Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By Simon-Olivier Gagnon Université Laval, Québec (QC), Canada Badvertising: an exposé Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By Gao Jingquan University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai, China A century of repression: the espionage act and freedom of the press, Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By Sheila B. Lalwani Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By Timothy Graham School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Simulated diversity and racial couvade: re-casting the past in historically based television dramas Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By June Deery Communication & Media, Rensselaer, Troy, NY, USA “The revolution will be hilarious: comedy for social change and civic power” Source: Critical Studies in Media Communication By Paul Alonso Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA	The Decline of Innovation and the Rise of Contribution Source: Cultural Politics The New Militancy: Memory Culture and the Politics of Implication from Ukraine, through Kassel, to Gaza Source: Cultural Politics Memory Capture from "De-communization" to "Decolonization": Tarik Cyril Amar on the Russia-Ukraine War, in Conversation with Tania Roy Source: Cultural Politics New Currencies or the Persistence of Representation: What's Left after documenta fifteen? Source: Cultural Politics Against Inevitability: Genre and Crisis in Palestine/Israel Source: Cultural Politics Vortex: Artistic and Curatorial Practices for Wind Source: Cultural Politics The Populist Prince: Returning to Charles's Vision of Britain Source: Cultural Politics Do You Hear the People's Nonsense? Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China Source: Cultural Politics

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Cultural Studies	differences: Feminist Cultural Studies	European J of Cultural Studies
The historical uses of the oceans: the Anthropocene in the first global age (1500–1800)? Source: Cultural Studies By Amélia Polónia CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre “Culture Space and Memory”, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents Source: Cultural Studies By Davina Cooper Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, London, UK The use of historical ponds in political campaigns in the Czech Republic Source: Cultural Studies By Michal Vokurka Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic Matching and mismatching times in the fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in marine ecosystems as seen through the lens of architecture, 1887–1927 Source: Cultural Studies By André Tavares Alice Nouvet Faculty of Architecture, Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries Source: Cultural Studies By Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA MOIRA: (Re)making Algarve’s culture(s) of water through mixed media arts Source: Cultural Studies By Ana Gago Diogo Marques a CITAR, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugalb CODA + ILCML, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water. An introduction Source: Cultural Studies By Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld Ana Clara Roberti Bruno Lopes Gisele C. Conceição a Department of Civil Engineering, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norwayb CITCEM – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Porto, Portugalc CIAUD-UPT - Branch of CIAUD Research Center, Department of Architecture and Multimedia Gallaecia, Portucalense University Infante D. Henrique, Porto, Portugald CIDEHUS – Centre of History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora, Évora, Portugale Department of History, University of São Paulo – USP – DH, São Paulo, Brazil Navigating the troubles’ tidelands: the push and pull of memory in post-conflict northern Ireland’s film & television industry Source: Cultural Studies By Lennart Soberon Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Ixelles, Belgium	Register for email updates at: https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences	(Re)thinking culture thickly: The public realm from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition to the Bennett Institute report Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Julian MeyrickGriffith University, Australia Book review: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Abdellatif El Aidi ‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Hannah PoonUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Hannah OortsVrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; University of Warwick, UK Free-roaming bovids in Hong Kong, worlding the more-than-human care Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Zimu ZhangThe Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Paul Nataraj, Emily KeightleyLoughborough University, UK Ways of hoping: Variegated hope among theatre freelancers during COVID-19 Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Laura Harris, Ali FitzGibbon Book review: Dorothy Way Sim Lau, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary Source: European Journal of Cultural Studies By Abdul Maskur, Khalda Fadhilah Arisya

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Feminist Media Histories	Feminist Media Studies	International J of Cultural Studies
No feed items found.	Co-opetition in the censored internet: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of queer-feminist counterdiscourse in the Chinese context Source: Feminist Media Studies By Haiyan Feng Songyan Liu Xiangjian Zeng a School of Journalism and Communication, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, Chinab School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Beijing, ChinaHaiyan Feng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Xiamen University, China. She holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, and her research focuses on gender and sexuality studies, cross-cultural communication, and computational communication.Songyan Liu is a post-doc in School of Journalism & Communication of Renmn University of China, Beijing, China. With a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, Dr. Liu’s research focuses on cross-cultural communication and place branding.Xiangjian Zeng is an Assistant Engineer in the School of Journalism & Communication of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. With a master’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Mr. Zeng’s research focuses on big data mining and machine learning. The challenges of using social media to recruit participants for research on LGBTQ people and animal companionship Source: Feminist Media Studies By Damien W. Riggs Claudia Ciccarello Monica Cations College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaDamien W. Riggs is a professor at Flinders University and the author of over 200 publications on gender, family, and wellbeing. Damien is also a psychotherapist who specialises in working with trans young people.Claudia Ciccarello is a PhD candidate at Flinders University and a provisionally registered psychologist.Monica Cations is a clinical psychologist and epidemiologist who conducts translational research and clinical practice with older adults and people living with dementia. Double dissent: Berkovich, Petriychuk, and the battle for Russian womanhood Source: Feminist Media Studies By Anna Kuteleva School of Social Science and Humanities, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UKAnna Kuteleva is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work intertwines international relations, development studies, energy security, and feminist-informed approaches to politics. Her research centres on the nexus between politics and sociocultural contexts in international relations and develops a cross-disciplinary methodological toolkit around the concept of discursive politics. In 2022, she joined the University of Wolverhampton in the UK as a senior lecturer in International Relations. Previously, she obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta in Canada and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Russia. Women of many “firsts”: novelty framing by news media of ethnic minority women politicians in Aotearoa New Zealand Source: Feminist Media Studies By Flora Galy-Badenas Priya Kurian Rachel Simon-Kumar a School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealandb Politics and International Relations, School of Law, Politics, and Philosophy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New ZealandFlora Galy-Badenas is an independent researcher who served as a post-doctoral fellow with the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests include intersectionality, gendered/racialized mediation, politics/politicians, (Feminist) Critical Discourse Analysis, media studies, cross-cultural/intercultural studies, and communication.Priya Kurian is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. Her research is interdisciplinary and spans the areas of gender and race/ethnicity; media and communication; environmental politics; and critical public policy. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of seven books, including Public Relations and Sustainable Citizenship: Representing the Unrepresented (2021) and Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture, and Development (2016).Rachel Simon-Kumar is Professor, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau. Her research interests include feminist politics and policymaking, intersectionality, ethnicity, migration, and multiculturalism. Barbie, motherhood and invisibilisation of labou Source: Feminist Media Studies By Huiming Liu School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKHuiming Liu has just completed their PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Their dissertation, “T.S. Eliot and Otherness: Affects, History, and Embodiment”, examines literary otherness through diverse lenses. Liu has contributed to journals like Literature Compass (in progression) and The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual, focusing on race, gender, and the digital humanities. Liu’s interdisciplinary approach spans English literature, media studies, and child and animal studies. Fluent in multiple languages, Liu contributes to the fields of modernist studies and sensory aesthetics through publications in esteemed journals and active conference participation. Huiming is an emerging scholar in English Literature with a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, specializing in the intricate intersections of financial colonialism and commodity frontiers within modern and contemporary literatures. Boys love media in Thailand: celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture Source: Feminist Media Studies By Apala Kundu Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USAApala Kundu is a Humanities Engage Immersive Research Dissertation Fellow, pursuing her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh. She is also pursuing a Master’s certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies in the GSWS program at Pitt. Currently she is working on her dissertation titled “T-read-ing Waters: Navigating Postcolonial Mobilities in Indian Ocean novels.” Her research interests include postcolonialism, migration/diaspora and mobility studies, Indian Ocean literature, gender and sexuality studies, graphic narratives, and pedagogy. She can be contacted at apk61@pitt.edu. Rebranding a pop-icon for the twenty-first century. Barbieland dysfunctional utopia and the spiritual journey of Greta Gerwig’s feminism Source: Feminist Media Studies By Ilaria W. Biano Cultural and Religious Studies Independent Scholar, ItalyIlaria W. Biano PhD, is a Cultural and Religious Studies scholar and historian. She held a PhD in Political Studies, History, and Theory from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy). Since 2015 she has been a fellow in high profile Italian research institutes such as Fondazione Einaudi (Torino) and Italian Institute for Historical Studies “Benedetto Croce” (Napoli). Since 2020 she has been a member of the Group for the Study of the Fantastic at the “History of Religions’ Museum “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Velletri) and Editor of the Fantastic Religions Series (Quasar, Roma). She has extensively published as well as presented at several international conferences on issues related to non/religious representations in pop-cultural texts; posthumanities and philosophical posthumanism in cultural and pop-cultural fields; trauma and memory in literature and culture. Not my type: automating sexual racism in online dating Source: Feminist Media Studies By Nikoo Karimi The Ohio State UniversityNikoo Karimi is a graduate student in Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on literary criticism and science and technology studies.	Art as voice: Exploring the cultural expression of stateless Rohingyas Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Mizanur RahmanCentre for Peace Studies, 87365Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway The healthy hard worker: A critical analysis of young adult South Africans’ discursive constructions of health Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Michelle De Jong, Simóne Plüg, Anthony Collins Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Manuel Pereira Soares112043Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal/Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal “You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”: Taylor Swift “Gaylor” subreddits and microconspiracy archives, affects, and aesthetics Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Olivia Stowell1259University of Michigan, USA Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Hao Wu, Yihuan Zhang “I made myself a new safety bubble”: Building trans virtual homeplaces Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Vilja Jaaksi “A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Wenxue Zou Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship Source: International Journal of Cultural Studies By Cheyenne Zaremba

J of Communication Inquiry	J of Visual Culture	Media, Culture & Society
Book Review: Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non)Eurocentric Perspectives by Oana Serban Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Jazirrotul Ma’na, Fransiskus Silin Gunadi, Ervin Rambu Pedi Mosa Traditional Journalism Norms Revisited: Journalistic Reconceptualizations of Objectivity Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Carolina VellosoHubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 5635University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA “It’s a way to rally my inner circles and get them involved”: The Dynamics of Private Activism on WhatsApp in Nigeria Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Silas Udenze16766Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain The Last of Us (2023; Home Box Office; Season One): A Road Trip Through the Leviathan, Neoliberalism, Fundamentalist Authoritarianism, and Small Socialism Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Brian Michael GossDepartment of Communication, Saint Louis University—Madrid Campus, Madrid, Spain Narratives, Myths, and Enduring Ideologies: Resisting Domination and Erasure in Media Production and Consumption Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Munachim Amah Bring a Bucket, Bring a Mop: News Coverage of WAP and the Contentious Articulation of Black Women's Politics of Pleasure Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Ayleen Cabas-Mijares Queering Contemporary Comedy: FX's What We Do in the Shadows and the Mediation of Nonnormative Gender and Sexual Identities Source: Journal of Communication Inquiry By Erika Engstrom	Long live the hyphen and the exclamation mark! On the trait-d’union as inter-ship Source: Journal of Visual Culture By Mieke Bal	Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil Source: Media, Culture & Society By Victoria Adams, Edward King “You’ve got to either adapt to us or get out of the field”: A qualitative analysis of people with intellectual disabilities’ perspectives on journalism and news media Source: Media, Culture & Society By Rebecca Monteleone, Beena Raghav, Amy Silverman, Darius Cunningham, Phillis Schmidbauer, Marissa Kuehn Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility Source: Media, Culture & Society By Meri Frig, Visa Penttilä AI, agency, and power geometries Source: Media, Culture & Society By Simone Natale, Federico Biggio, Andrea L Guzman, Paola Ricaurte, John Downey, Riccardo Fassone, Emily Keightley, Deqiang Ji Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era Source: Media, Culture & Society By Gillian Doyle, Kenny Barr, Raymond Boyle The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa Source: Media, Culture & Society By Vincent ObiaUniversity of Sheffield, UK Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore Source: Media, Culture & Society By Karla Zavala Barreda, Stefania Milan Cross-cultural approaches to creative media content in the age of AI Source: Media, Culture & Society By Lucie Chateau, Payal Arora, Laura Herman

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Popular Communication	Public Culture	Representations
Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry Source: Popular Communication By Jude Brereton Bethan Jones Carlton Reeve James Zborowski Anna Bramwell-Dicks a School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, York, UKb Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UKc School of Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UKd School of the Arts, University of Hull, Kingston Upon Hull, UKJude Brereton is Professor of Audio and Music Technologies in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York, UK. She is also Co-Director and Skills and Training Lead for the Screen Industries Growth Network. Her teaching covers audio signal processing, psychoacoustics, spatial audio and virtual acoustics, music performance analysis and voice analysis and synthesis at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Her research interests include: inclusion in STEM and digital creative technology education; the performance and perception in virtual acoustic environments; the use of spatial sound to enhance performer and listener experience and interaction; the analysis, perception and evaluation of musical performance. Before beginning her academic career she worked in arts and music administration and is still active in promoting research-inspired music and theatre events for public engagement and outreach.Bethan Jones is a Research Fellow working on the Media Cymru project at the University of South Wales. Her research interests include fandom, tattoos, gender and participatory cultures, and she has been published in Transformative Works and Cultures, Television and New Media and Velvet Light Trap, among others. Bethan is co-chair of the SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG, co-editor of the journal Popular Communication and co-editor of the forthcoming Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict and Complicity in Fandom.Carlton Reeve is the Director of the Staffordshire University Games Institute and Professor of Narrative Design. His career in the Creative Industries spans both media production and academia. Having worked as a Commissioner for the BBC, Executive Producer and Creative Director for leading UK indies and as a consultant to organizations including the United Nations, he has produced or commissioned around 10 hours of broadcast television, more than 40 websites and more than a dozen games. He is also a judge for the BAFTA film and game awards, the national VR Awards and a grant assessor for government agencies and has written more than 30 publications. He was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2007 for his international work in education and is a trustee of the Sheffield-based charity, Parson Cross Initiative (PXI) which addresses social exclusion, a school governor and volunteer youth leader.James Zborowski is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Hull where he teaches and researches in the areas of film, television, media and cultural studies. His work has two main aims. The first is to improve the quality of our discussions about screen drama, in whatever medium we find it. The second is to explain the functions and the evolution of communications media in society.Anna Bramwell-Dicks is Subject Head of Creative Technologies and Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York. Her research and teaching interests span different areas of the school but are primarily driven by an interest in the role of (new) technology, media and music in improving health, wellbeing and access and the relationship between different modalities (e.g. sound, haptics) and storytelling within these new media forms. Representing trans in Sinophone films: uncovering local critical evaluations, storytelling performative marriages, promoting trans decoloniality, and illustrating transgendered cis-casting Source: Popular Communication By Ximin Wei Matthew M. Chew Dehao Hu a Hong Kong Baptist Universityb Lingnan Universityc South China University of Technology Wushan CampusAs a trans woman (she/her), Ximin Wei is a Master of Social Science at the Faculty of Social Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include Trans* studies, human geography, and urban studies.Matthew M. Chew is an Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries of Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research interests include cultural sociology, social theory, digital media, political communication, and ethnic and racial studies. His research has been published in journals such as Media Culture and Society, Sociology, Cultural Studies, China Quarterly, and New Media and Society.Dehao Hu is an independent scholar. As a genderqueer (they/them). Their research interests include computer science, digital humanities, and gender studies. Publisher’s note Source: Popular Communication Exploring the potential use of easy-to-understand language in video games Source: Popular Communication By Miguel Ángel Oliva Zamora Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació i d’Estudis de l’Àsia Oriental, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainMiguel Ángel Oliva Zamora holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting from the Universidad de Granada (UGR) and a MA in Audiovisual Translation from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Thanks to the PhD grant he has been awarded with, he is now able to research video game accessibility and the implementation of easy-to-understand language. He is currently a member of the research group TransMedia Catalonia at the UAB and develops his work as part of the From written to oral texts in Easy Language: easy audios in cultural visits and video games (WEL) project. Representation of neurodiversity in video games: analyzing autism through the character of Symmetra in Overwatch 2 Source: Popular Communication By Kevin Rebecchi Liège Game Lab, Research Unit Traverses, University of LiègeDr. Kevin Rebecchi, PhD is a researcher and lecturer in education, psychology, and communication, affiliated with the University Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and the Liège Game Lab (Belgium). His research focuses on neurodiversity, autism, creativity, and the representation of atypical cognition in media, particularly through video games. His work examines how video games, films, and television series shape societal perceptions of autism, questioning the boundaries between otherness and normality. Tattoos as unpopular communication within the psychotherapy profession Source: Popular Communication By Lucy Snelson University of ExeterLucy Snelson is a qualified psychotherapist and accredited member of BACP who works in private practice in Norwich. She graduated with an Msc in psychological therapies from the University of Exeter in 2021. Queer women’s fandoms: new global perspectives Source: Popular Communication By Jamie J. Zhao Eve Ng a School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, HKSARb School of Media Arts and Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USAJamie J. Zhao is Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Her research explores East Asian media and public discourses on female gender and sexuality in a globalist age. She is the editor of Queer TV China (HKUP, 2023) and coedited Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols (HKUP, 2017), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2024). She has also (co)edited 10 special issues for highly selective journals on the topics of global media, celebrity, and fan studies.Eve Ng is an associate professor in the School of Media Arts and Studies and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Ohio University. She is the author of Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television (Rutgers University Press, 2023), and numerous journal articles on media and cultural studies and gender studies. She serves on the editorial boards of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication, Culture & Critique, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Television & New Media, and Transformative Works and Culture. Queer women prefer older sisters: the onee-san voice, the woman game streamer Southern Senior Female Schoolfellow, and the Aurora Australis fandom Source: Popular Communication By Jamie J. Zhao School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SARJamie J. Zhao is Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Her research explores East Asian media and public discourses on female gender and sexuality in a globalist age. She is the editor of Queer TV China (HKUP, 2023), and coedited Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols (HKUP, 2017), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2024). She has also (co)edited ten special issues for highly selective journals on the topics of global media, celebrity, and fan studies.	No feed items found.	No feed items found.

Social Text	Theory & Event	Visual Communication
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