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An international forum for research and discussion on the media, including the newer information and communication technologies. Also on mcsjournal.bsky.social

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MCS Journal @MCSjournal Apr 24

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @nnniccc & colleagues examine how #Instagram has “industrialised and platformised” everyday image-sharing, with profiles become archives and “platform biographies” of users’ lives, visual practices & the platform itself.
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journals.sagepub.com Intimate platform biographies on, off and underneath Instagram - Nicholas Carah, Maria Gemma Brown,... For 15 years Instagram has industrialised and platformised the everyday practices of creating and sharing images. Across that time, users’ profiles became archi...

MCS Journal @MCSjournal Apr 24

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Nawazish Ali, Lihui Liu & Azam Sarwar examine how #memes enact “epistememic violence” against the Khwajasara community in Pakistan, showing how sexist humour becomes a dispositif for digital exclusion & gendered erasure.
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journals.sagepub.com Online othering and epistememic violence against the Pakistani Khwajasara community: Jostling for... Although the 2018 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act granted legal recognition to the Khwajasara community in Pakistan, Pakistani society has yet to...

MCS Journal @MCSjournal Apr 24

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @distractionism revisits Walter Benjamin’s concept of “aesthetic politics” through the viral American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeney to examine how spectacle, affect & politics intertwine in online culture wars. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

journals.sagepub.com Making America hot again: Aesthetic politics, from Walter Benjamin to Sydney Sweeney - Pansy... In 2025, as part of a broader campaign built around the punning slogan “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” US denim brand American Eagle released an advertisement...

MCS Journal @MCSjournal Apr 24

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Lucila Rozas Urrunaga & Liz Hallgren rethink “#diaspora” by proposing a continuum of displacement, “moored,” “unmoored” & “floating” publics, to capture fluid forms of belonging beyond nation-bound assumptions.
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journals.sagepub.com Defining displaced publics - Lucila Rozas Urrunaga, Liz Hallgren, 2026 Public sphere scholarship has addressed the concept of “diaspora” in recent decades, thereby highlighting the fluidity of public movements and formations. Howev...

MCS Journal @MCSjournal Apr 24

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Irene Blum examines how climate activists navigate platforms like Facebook, where algorithms and commercial business models shape visibility, highlighting the interplay between technological features & media practices.
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journals.sagepub.com ‘Facebook is a bit like a lost cause’: Reconsidering affordances and social movement actors - Irene... As social movement actors (SMAs) campaign for the climate on social media, they face challenges in attaining visibility due to the algorithms and commercial bus...