Article
Cultural Studies
Carla M. Rice, Chelsea Temple Jones, Ingrid Mundel
Summary: This study examines the challenges faced by disabled individuals living under emergency COVID-19 medical triage protocols in Ontario, Canada, and explores the potential of slow digital story-making to create a complex, relational, and lively collaborative world.
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
A. Lamont Williams
Summary: In August 2020, NBA players boycotted the playoffs in response to an unjust incident, demanding that the Black Lives Matter movement be intertwined with the playoffs, leading to a new wave of athlete activism.
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
(2022)
Review
Cultural Studies
Miguel Sicart
Summary: This article proposes the concept of plaything as a tool to explore the ontology and epistemology of the things we play with. The main argument is that the ontology of the things we play with is separate from its epistemology, with playthings providing a materialistic ontology while concepts like video games or toys serve as epistemological concepts.
Article
Cultural Studies
Jordan Foster, David Pettinicchio
Summary: The study reveals that diversity in the fashion industry is increasing, but market logics constrain the use of models with disabilities. Consumers call for more visibility of disability images, although their responses may sometimes be naive. Consumer feedback can challenge market logics and provide opportunities for increased representation.
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Orlando Woods
Summary: This paper offers a counterpoint to existing research on the associations between gacha games and gambling. Through qualitative data from players in Singapore, it explores how discipline, desire, and deferred value affect players' resource-maximizing behaviors.
Article
Cultural Studies
Philipp Staab, Thorsten Thiel
Summary: This article discusses the understanding of social media using Habermasian theory of the structural transformation of the public sphere. The authors argue for a focus on political-economic fundamentals as the basis for analyzing the public sphere, and seek to establish a connection between digital-behavioral control and individualized audiences in proprietary markets.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Mari Lehto
Summary: This article examines the intimate cultures of Finnish influencer mothers, exploring how they negotiate feeling rules on social media and cope with the emotional weight of their work. It argues that anxiety is used by influencers to manage the dissonance between their emotions and cultural expectations, and that sharing anxiety on social media can be a central tactic in the lifestyle influencer industry. The concept of the 'neurotic influencer' is introduced to highlight the ambivalent nature of gendered influencer work.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Omair Al-Zgoul, Saleh Al-Salman
Summary: This research examines the tactics employed by fansubbers when translating English culture-bound expressions to Arabic and investigates the functions of swear words and how the fansubbers revived their functional associations. The study analyzed English subtitles and Arabic fansubs of the Bad Boys movies using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The dominant strategy used by fansubbers was omission, followed by transposition and explicitation. However, these strategies were occasionally misused due to the absence of guidelines. The research also highlights the neglecting of functional elements by fansubbers, resulting in occasional lack of accuracy in the subtitles.
OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Rashida Bibi
Summary: By analyzing 'the Veil' and 'double consciousness', this paper reveals the reflection and experiences of Muslim women in the face of social and cultural exclusion and hegemonic discourses.
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Tim Ingold, Cristian Simonetti
Summary: This issue explores the tension between solidity and fluidity, arguing that matter exists as continuous flux and is both solid and fluid. By advocating for a perspective that starts from our participation in a world of solid fluids, the authors open new paths for theorizing matter and meaning, particularly in the context of ecological crisis.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, C. W. Anderson, Camilla Mork Rostvik
Summary: The article discusses the importance of generic visuals in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. These visuals, through symbolic repetition, promote nationalism, localism, and cosmopolitanism. By analyzing the coverage of three major UK news outlets, the article highlights the role of the state in responding to the crisis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Hartmut Rosa
Summary: This passage discusses the importance of a media space for the formation of public opinion in democratic politics, and analyzes the recent structural transformation that affects it. It also explores the conditions for the restoration of a functioning political public sphere.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Paul Hewer
Summary: This paper has three objectives: to critically review Zygmunt Bauman's work on Liquid Modernity and Liquid Times, to explore how consumer culture theorists have expanded upon his ideas, and to demonstrate how reflexive marketing practitioners are responding to liquid times and extending the marketing field. The paper argues that reimagining marketing is essential given the current climate of anxiety, fear, and uncertainty.
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Melvin L. Williams
Summary: This research conducted a textual analysis of Caitlyn Jenner's Twitter account to examine her use of social media for discussing her experiences as a transgender woman and advocating for the transgender community. The findings supported prior criticisms of Jenner's celebrity image and online activism, as well as the representation of transwomen in celebrity culture. Although Jenner fostered online social connections and discussions with her transgender followers, her ideological differences prevented her from facilitating any collective social movement actions.
Article
Cultural Studies
Tommaso Venturini
Summary: This paper conceptualizes online conspiracism as a creative response to the attention economy of social media, and develops a research program to study its features and surprising adaptation to the attention regime of digital media.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Alyosxa Tudor
Summary: This article examines scholarly analysis on the race and migration relationship in the context of Brexit in the UK. It introduces the concept of 'migratism' to understand the discrimination against migrants and the construction of migrants as a power relation. The article argues that racism and migratism are interdependent and play a crucial role in organizing the nation state.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Meijiadai Bai
Summary: Works by Foucault on censorship reveal that censorship does not prohibit, but produces media content, reflecting political conflicts between different ideologies of its time. In China, BL fiction is heavily censored but globally recognized as women's exploration of eroticism and subjectivity. The regulation of pornography in China is shown to be objective in its measurement of sanction, but contextually gendered.
Article
Cultural Studies
Adi Shouach, Uri Ben-Eliezer
Summary: The study found that second-generation Ethiopian immigrants developed different identity and positioning strategies compared to the 1.5 generation, but both failed to reduce racism in Israel. It was only through massive demonstrations in 2015 that intergenerational dialogue was created, leading to a new positioning strategy that proved effective in undermining racist hegemonic discourse.
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Eran Fisher
Summary: This article introduces the concept of algorithmic spatiality, which captures the unique spatial knowledge created by digital mobile media and its impact on and perception by other actors involved in space production. Using Waze as a case study, it explores how this new spatial actor legitimizes the knowledge it creates and the effects it has. The article examines the clash between Waze and local residents in Israel over diverting traffic through side-roads, and highlights a new form of knowledge backed by big data and algorithms that claims a legitimate right to space production, challenging traditional notions of the right to the city.
Article
Cultural Studies
Andreas Chatzidakis, Jo Littler
Summary: This article defines and provides theorization and historicization of the term 'carewashing'. It discusses the position of carewashing in relation to corporate social responsibility and cause-related marketing, and how it has evolved in the era of Covid-19 and neoliberal instability. The article argues that carewashing is a political act involved in wider social struggles, attempting to claim the realm of care for corporate capitalism against social democracy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
