International Journal of Cultural Studies
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International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
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Check out the article "Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures", authored by Do Own (Donna) Kim and Fang Wu, in our Online First section.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Check out the article "Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures", authored by Do Own (Donna) Kim and Fang Wu, in our Online First section.
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In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article "Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance", by Kedi Zhou, Yuqi Yang, and Xinyue Zhang.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article "Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance", by Kedi Zhou, Yuqi Yang, and Xinyue Zhang.
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In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article “Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom”, by Yoonsuh Jung, Tiara Wilson, and Ying Wang.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article “Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom”, by Yoonsuh Jung, Tiara Wilson, and Ying Wang.
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This paper provides a Latin American rooted ‘Antropofagia’ approach to creativity amid debates about the implications of creative work and image-generating Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This paper provides a Latin American rooted ‘Antropofagia’ approach to creativity amid debates about the implications of creative work and image-generating Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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This article asks how queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material were articulated as activism in Latin America, debating the cultural and political meanings of these practices in a global context.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This article asks how queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material were articulated as activism in Latin America, debating the cultural and political meanings of these practices in a global context.
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This article discusses solidarity fatigue, a sense of psychological or physical exhaustion experienced by those expressing solidarity, encompassing emotional, legal, and sociocultural dimensions.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This article discusses solidarity fatigue, a sense of psychological or physical exhaustion experienced by those expressing solidarity, encompassing emotional, legal, and sociocultural dimensions.
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This study examines the expression of nostalgia among viewers of popular Turkish TV series. The findings reveal that they idealize the eras depicted by attributing their nostalgia to contemporary social and economic instability.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This study examines the expression of nostalgia among viewers of popular Turkish TV series. The findings reveal that they idealize the eras depicted by attributing their nostalgia to contemporary social and economic instability.
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This article discusses how historical dramas in Turkey are cultural artifacts that seek to produce and reproduce a populist Turkishness in ways that situate Turkish identity at the intersection of Islam and empire.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This article discusses how historical dramas in Turkey are cultural artifacts that seek to produce and reproduce a populist Turkishness in ways that situate Turkish identity at the intersection of Islam and empire.
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This paper identifies a powerful discourse that popular culture is beneficial and makes us ‘smarter’, ‘better’, ‘faster’ or ‘kinder’, examining its politics in the online press.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This paper identifies a powerful discourse that popular culture is beneficial and makes us ‘smarter’, ‘better’, ‘faster’ or ‘kinder’, examining its politics in the online press.
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Recent years have seen the increasing visibility of kathoey, a Thai colloquial term for transgender women, as social media influencers. This study aims to analyse the emerging mode of labour which largely depends on platforms.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Recent years have seen the increasing visibility of kathoey, a Thai colloquial term for transgender women, as social media influencers. This study aims to analyse the emerging mode of labour which largely depends on platforms.
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This article explores diverse forms of Rohingya art that amplify their voices and addresses barriers in producing and disseminating art, based on interviews with artists, researchers, and practitioners, field visits and social media.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This article explores diverse forms of Rohingya art that amplify their voices and addresses barriers in producing and disseminating art, based on interviews with artists, researchers, and practitioners, field visits and social media.
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This study explores the digital practices of Jinü (Chinese radical feminists) through the cultural politics of emotion, identifying “rage” as a critical “emotional rule” - directed at men, other women, and LGBTQ + individuals.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This study explores the digital practices of Jinü (Chinese radical feminists) through the cultural politics of emotion, identifying “rage” as a critical “emotional rule” - directed at men, other women, and LGBTQ + individuals.
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This article disrupts the idea of the White Paper Movement as a landmark anti-authoritarian movement by examining how women, queers, and Uyghurs were represented and rhetorically positioned within it.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This article disrupts the idea of the White Paper Movement as a landmark anti-authoritarian movement by examining how women, queers, and Uyghurs were represented and rhetorically positioned within it.
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We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy”, authored by Tingting Hu, Liang Ge, Ziyao Chen, and Xu Xia.
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy”, authored by Tingting Hu, Liang Ge, Ziyao Chen, and Xu Xia.
We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration”, authored by Aiello, Kennedy, Anderson, and Røstvik.
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration”, authored by Aiello, Kennedy, Anderson, and Røstvik.
We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19”, authored by Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler.
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19”, authored by Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler.
This paper calls for a shift in perspective, moving away from assumptions (re)produced by policymakers and media towards an approach grounded in children's experiences, considering the implications of TikTok in a positive manner.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This paper calls for a shift in perspective, moving away from assumptions (re)produced by policymakers and media towards an approach grounded in children's experiences, considering the implications of TikTok in a positive manner.
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At the TikTok & Children Symposium, the TikTok Cultures Research Network dialogued with TikTok personnel about provisions for young people, such as design changes, API access, age-gating and balancing universality and regionality.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
At the TikTok & Children Symposium, the TikTok Cultures Research Network dialogued with TikTok personnel about provisions for young people, such as design changes, API access, age-gating and balancing universality and regionality.
Read Q&As from the session here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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This mixed-methods study analyzes TikTok's Community Guidelines to protect children, discussing strategies such as scaffolding rules by age and risk, segmenting content with tailored policies, and siloing features from children.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This mixed-methods study analyzes TikTok's Community Guidelines to protect children, discussing strategies such as scaffolding rules by age and risk, segmenting content with tailored policies, and siloing features from children.
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Extending theorisations of the digital and algorithmic uncanny, the article outlines how the TikTok algorithm and young platform users collaborated to position a film as a participatory ‘challenge’.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Extending theorisations of the digital and algorithmic uncanny, the article outlines how the TikTok algorithm and young platform users collaborated to position a film as a participatory ‘challenge’.
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Focusing on TikTok's affordances and cultures of online incivility, this paper studies how TikTok influencers and their audiences manoeuvre legal-but-harmful humour in the Filipino context.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Focusing on TikTok's affordances and cultures of online incivility, this paper studies how TikTok influencers and their audiences manoeuvre legal-but-harmful humour in the Filipino context.
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This paper approaches the erasure of Black girls and teenagers by considering how they may continue to wrestle with visibility and suppression even within a more intimate in-group community of Black TikTokers.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This paper approaches the erasure of Black girls and teenagers by considering how they may continue to wrestle with visibility and suppression even within a more intimate in-group community of Black TikTokers.
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This study investigates parasocial relationships between adolescents and a genre of TikTok microcelebrities who construct themselves as “Internet Parents”, discussing how they monetize familial parasocial intimacy.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This study investigates parasocial relationships between adolescents and a genre of TikTok microcelebrities who construct themselves as “Internet Parents”, discussing how they monetize familial parasocial intimacy.
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We would like to thank guest editors Jin Lee @jinlee.bsky.social, Crystal Abidin, and Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social (Curtin University, Australia) for bringing together this special issue on TikTok and Children.
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We would like to thank guest editors Jin Lee @jinlee.bsky.social, Crystal Abidin, and Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social (Curtin University, Australia) for bringing together this special issue on TikTok and Children.