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 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, Ahead of Print. 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, …
- by Catherine Johnson, Ramon Lobato, Alexa ScarlataMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. When choosing what to watch, television audiences habitually default to particular channels, shows and apps as part of their everyday routines. Additionally, streaming platforms and devices also default to particular content, services or ads as determined …
- by Lyu Yunhong, Sharifah Sofiah Syed Zainudin, Ng Boon SimMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Home surveillance cameras provide new ways for Chinese migrant mothers to provide such care. Existing research on migrant women’s motherhood focuses mainly on two-way communication technologies represented by mobile text messages and phone calls, without …
- by Marína Urbániková, Klára SmejkalMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. In today’s competitive media landscape, the future of public service media (PSM) depends on maintaining its legitimacy among the public. While previous research has predominantly approached legitimacy-as-process, with focus on the normative perspective of …
- by Otsieno Namwaya, Michael KoechMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Scholars have acknowledged the public health risks associated with industrial wastewater. Kenya’s close to 5000 industries discharge large volumes of wastewater, but the authorities have barely enforced the law on industrial wastewater disposal and …
- by Peter Campbell, Danny Leigh, Dave O’Brien, Mark TaylorMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. A range of research, including analyses of quantitative data, has demonstrated the existence of inequalities for women and people of colour in the screen sector’s workforce. There has been less data collection in relation to class inequalities, and …
- by Nadia HaqCardiff University, UKMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This article contributes a missing insight into the everyday experiences of local journalists when reporting on stories involving Muslims. Using qualitative interviews with local and national journalists on their experiences of reporting stories involving …
- by Shani Orgad, Divya Srivastava, Diana OlaleyeMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. The article explores the democratic value of listening by examining what listening to radio phone-in programmes and listening more broadly mean to people in times of crisis. Drawing on focus groups with London residents severely affected by the cost-of-…
- by Johanna Sumiala, Anu A Harju, Julia SonnevendMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. On the 8th of September, 2022, the world paused as the BBC announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II. After 70 years on the throne, the longest-reigning British monarch had died aged 96. The Queen’s death immediately became a global media event that would …
- by Lital HenigThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This article explores the influence of digital culture on Holocaust commemoration through the test case of Anne Frank. By carrying out a comprehensive visual and multimodal analysis of three contemporary representations of Frank, I identify three new …
- by Yener BayramoğluUniversity of York, UKMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Over the last three decades, mediatization has been heralded as the new grand theory to explain how social transformations have increasingly become intertwined with media technologies. However, like other grand narratives about historical transformations, …
- by Páraic Kerrigan, Aodheen McCartan, Claire Kerins, Sinéad Furey, Colette Kelly, Elena VaughanMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. Food poverty has emerged as public health issues in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI) in the last decade. Concurrently, food poverty has emerged as a significant news story across broadcast media in both ROI and NI. While research …
- by Simone Natale, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, Aswin Punathambekar, Emily KeightleyMedia, Culture & Society, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 412-417, March 2025. A few years after the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, discussions surrounding its impact have become noticeably less frequent within communication and media research. While the pandemic no longer occupies the central place it once held in …
- by Simon Lindgren, Anne KaunMedia, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print. This Crosscurrent contribution presents programmable politics as an emerging keyword for understanding the complex interplay between technology, society and politics in the 21st century. Programmable politics has gained heightened importance in the …