After 7.5 yrs, the editorship of IJCS is changing. Welcome to new editors, as of July 1: @jonathan_c_ong, @lauraguimaraes, and Wen Jin! Thanks to the amazing team of Paul Frosh, Anthony Fung, Myria Georgiou, Mehita Iqani, Anna Cristina Pertierra. - signing off, Jonathan Gray
How are Public Service Media (PSM) rethinking the ways in which they achieve core public values? Iordache et al. propose a theoretical framework based on the operationalisation of platformisation in PSM policy documents and strategy:
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"What is [a challenge for] cultural studies?" Dr. Laura Guimarães Corrêa argues, mainly using the scholarship of Black feminism, that we should turn our lens to intersectionality and production from the margins (IJCS Vol 24.6, 2020): buff.ly/3PF0H12
In our What is Cultural Studies series, we move from the digital to the futurist: Dr. Devon Powers suggests that "cultural studies is a future-oriented discipline" (IJCS Vol 23.4, 2020).
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What should a postdigital cultural studies look like? Dr. Sarah Murry raises questions around digital economies of attention to answer our provocation, "What is Cultural Studies?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020): buff.ly/3W5899k
"What is Cultural Studies" in the context of "Actually Existing Culture?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020). Dr. Benjamin Woo "argue[s] for the importance of staying grounded in the analysis of real people’s real experiences of culture": buff.ly/3BA2P6L
Dr. Johan Fornäs "cross[es] borders and defend[s] distinctions" in the next article in our "What is Cultural Studies?" series (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020). How well has the field succeeded in "diversity, contextualization and critique?"
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Next up in "What is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Nick Couldry asks, "Can we / should we reinvent it?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020). After reading, tell us your thoughts on the place of cultural studies internationally in our socio-political moment: buff.ly/3OO4QiI
What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020): buff.ly/4gn3JSQ
How do influencers establish agency amidst precarious working conditions both on and off platforms? Read "Platform lethargy: Relational work perspective on influencer precarity" from Tinca Lukan & Jožica Čehovin Zajc in @IJCS_Journal:
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How do Marxist platform-dependent cultural producers in Brazil navigate platform spaces in relation to their identities and everyday work? Karhawi & Grohmann investigate in "Struggling with platforms" for @IJCS_Journal:
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In "‘What eating disorders are really like’" for @IJCS_Journal, Benzel, Johanssen, Nadj, & Rashid explore eating disorder and recovery videos on TikTok which show young women who proclaim to raise awareness or depict the recovery process.
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Through a feminist critique that utilizes Inter-Asian referencing in @IJCS_Journal, Ng Man Chuen problematizes the issue of removing the human voice from the female body to make it widely usable as a medium of expression.
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Glad to be a part of this excellent @IJCS_journal Open access issue on TikTok & Children, congrats to eds @jinlee_media @wishcrys @tamaleaver ! 👇 My article addresses the intriguing, surprising role of TikTok in the virality of @kyleedwardball's sublimely spooky Skinamarink
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In "Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos" for @IJCS_Journal, Xu and Wilson analyze Chinese K-pop fan responses to ‘Rica Rica.’ Read their analysis now:
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Learn about the effects of philanthrocapitalism on the beneficiaries of the Google News Initiative in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East in this paper from Munoriyarwa, de-Lima-Santos, Mesquita, and Elega in @IJCS_Journal.
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Happy to share our article "From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India" published @IJCS_journal part of special issue on "Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production."
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Con un grupo de académicos/as, editamos un número especial con 20 artículos en el @IJCS_journal sobre Miradas Globales, Plataformas & Producción Cultural. Pueden revisar una descripción de cada contribución 👇👇👇
🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @tpoell @brookeerinduffy @bruce_mutsvairo @iamtommiii @artarriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun
In "#Nature is trending: Social media, viral landscapes, & digital environmental activism in Oman" in @IJCS_Journal, Smith examines the mediatization of relations with nature—the more-than-human world—in the Arabian Gulf country of Oman.
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Check out this fantastic special issue of @IJCS_journal!
🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @tpoell @brookeerinduffy @bruce_mutsvairo @iamtommiii @artarriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun



















