Journal Description
Media, Culture & Society provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts.
The journal is interdisciplinary, regularly engaging with a wider range of issues in cultural and social analysis. Its focus is on substantive topics and on critique and innovation in theory and method.
All issues of Media, Culture & Society are available to browse on SAGE Journals.
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- by Victoria Adams, Edward KingMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This article considers how community-led organisations in Brazil are reformulating debates surrounding digital inclusion in the face of the consolidation of platform capitalism. It does this through exploration of how two NGOs cultivate spaces for …
- by Rebecca Monteleone, Beena Raghav, Amy Silverman, Darius Cunningham, Phillis Schmidbauer, Marissa KuehnMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. There has been limited attention to the role of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) as contributors and consumers of news media. In a series of focus groups conducted with people with I/DD about news media, we found respondents …
- by Meri Frig, Visa PenttiläMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Many of the causes and impacts of environmental and social issues may seem invisible, while others are apparent yet overlooked. Journalists act as focal agents shaping how society addresses these issues, including climate change and social inequality. In …
- by Simone Natale, Federico Biggio, Andrea L Guzman, Paola Ricaurte, John Downey, Riccardo Fassone, Emily Keightley, Deqiang JiMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. One of the paradoxes of AI is that it is a global phenomenon, but it is always situated in specific local contexts and cultures. While approaches that aim to study local cultures of AI are important, there is the risk of neglecting their insertion within …
- by Gillian Doyle, Kenny Barr, Raymond BoyleMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. PSM organisations across the globe have been disrupted by a generalised switch in media consumption towards online and the rise of big tech platforms. This article argues that because, in the digital environment, the role that PSM plays in underpinning …
- by Vincent ObiaUniversity of Sheffield, UKMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. The paper considers the question of location in the development and governance of artificial intelligence in Africa. The discussion draws from ideas on locational advantage and the mix of factors that affect inequalities in AI development and how this …
- by Karla Zavala Barreda, Stefania MilanMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This article examines how app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance strategies and industry practices. Drawing on platform studies, critical childhood studies, and the concept of audience commodity, we use the critical …
- by Lucie Chateau, Payal Arora, Laura HermanMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the goalposts for how we judge creative work are changing. New tools, new collaborators and new creative processes are transforming the way we make, look at and talk about the value of creative work. This shift …
- by Andrea MeuzelaarUniversity of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This article presents an analysis of Dutch television coverage of Ukrainian refugees, and shows how television has crafted affects of care and solidarity through a politics of representation that celebrated proximity and sameness of “us” and “them.” The …
- by Astrid Mager, Magdalena Eitenberger, Jana Winter, Barbara Prainsack, Christiane Wendehorst, Payal AroraMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This article investigates growing tensions between global AI ethics and local practices contributing to long-standing debates in media and communication studies on the complex relation between the human and the machine, as well as ‘the global’ and its …
- by Jingzhi ChenZhejiang University, ChinaMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Artificial intelligence voice assistants often embedded in people’s daily lives appear as social partners. Most artificial intelligence assumes the humble and submissive female names and voices. Scholars from Techno-feminism argue that technology has a …
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- by Muhammad IttefaqJames Madison University, USAMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This Crosscurrent notes the rising phenomenon of online platform migration and technology non-use, fueled by the emergence of new social media platforms and increasing societal polarization. As platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) and Meta face backlash …
- by Leysan Khakimova Storie, Sarah MarschlichMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Cultural citizenship suggests that people negotiate what it means to be a citizen and belong to a nation. Social media is an online space where women can practise citizenship, where the sense of belonging and norms of what it means to be a citizen are …
- by Sanju Kumawat, Chhavi GargMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. As mobile media is expanding its roots in rural spheres of the Global South, and that too among girls and women, concerns related to their engagement with digital technologies are also emerging. These concerns are emerging owing to the belief that women …
- by Alex BeattieTe Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Digital disconnection is increasingly sparking widespread debate and action, with social media age restrictions and phone bans being enacted around the world. As more people are required or encouraged to disconnect from the Internet, this commentary …
- by Gita Neupane, Bal Krishna SharmaMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This study examines social media discourse in connection with two separate high-profile statutory rape cases involving two male celebrities in Nepal: film and music video actor Paul Shah and cricket icon Sandeep Lamichhane. In the first case, we analyze …
- by Xiao HanMedia, Culture & Society, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 624-637, April 2025. Datafication is reshaping feminism, as feminist pioneers, groups and communities increasingly engage with data practices for advocacy, activism and social change. This is a netnographic study exploring how feminist actors in China appropriate the emerging …
- by Ebuka A Ifeanyichukwu, Lindsay H HoffmanMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This study explores the use of incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation. Using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach, 611 samples which reflected the opinions of pro-Biafra and anti-Biafra groups …
- by Ana Borges Jelinic, Peter Hegedus, Elena Marchetti, Bobbi-Lea DionysiusMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. In 2022,Sorella’s Storywas launched at the Venice International Film Festival using 360 immersive technologies with the intention to enable empathic responses from viewers as they witnessed the story of a group of Latvian women and a 10-year-old child, …