European Journal of Cultural Studies

In "‘Show me your phone!’" @bltergin.bsky.social and Başak Can make a call for theorizing global neoliberal populisms through ordinary citizens’ affective and networked performances around everyday objects. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation", David Morley celebrates Bausinger's analyses of the interfaces of ritual, science and magic. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘More safeguarded and among friends’: Negotiating platformised (in)visibility in feminist Instagram Stories" @sofiapcaldeira.bsky.social explores ambivalent perceptions and relationships with the notion of platformised (in)visibility. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Disruption and resistance in sonic spaces", June Reid interviews DJ Chillz to consider what it means to be a Black female DJ. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Kyle Barnett reviewed Carolyn Birdsall's 'Radiophilia' and Elodie Roy's 'Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture' for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "#Cuéntalo [#TellIt]", @fionafnoble.bsky.social argues that contemporary Spanish television and streaming is a vital site for the articulation of new modes of feminist engagement and expression. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "A plea for promiscuous creativity", Jeroen de Kloet employs the notion of promiscuity to emphasise creativity’s collaborative relationality and move beyond its anthropocentric underpinnings. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Space invading at the museum", @siobhan.bsky.social claims that networks of collective action and solidarity remain essential in the museum sector if ‘space invading’ is to continue being a productive act of dissent. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Preface: Space Invaders revisited", Jo Littler and Anamik Saha introduce the special issue dedicated to Nirmal Puwar's monumental book. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Anila Anandan and Shyamkiran Kaur reviewed Åsa Johannesson's 'Queer Methodology for Photography' for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Investment obligations for global streamers as a wind of hope for the peripheral markets in Europe", Ivana Kostovska et al. analyse effects of investment obligations for transnational streamers as policy measures in Croatia and Poland. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Rogue readings of a flashpoint moment: The double-edged sword of Adolescence", Debbie Ging and Catherine R. Baker argue that 'Adolescence' inadvertently operates in the service of anti-progressive agendas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Annelot Prins reviewed Briony Hannell's "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘Adolescence’, manufactured outrage and instructed victimhood: How the discourse on boys’ alienation is fuelled by anti-feminist agendas", Steven Roberts et al. advocate for relational and ethical understandings of masculinity. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Sound, power and participation: A conversation on the aurality of the House of Commons", @duncanwhitley.bsky.social explores how the sounding cultures of the House of Commons affect whose voices are heard. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Man enough to kill, boy enough to cry: Liminality and irresolvability in Adolescence", Kathryn Claire Higgins (@kat-hig.bsky.social) considers the television show Adolescence, using the show’s title as an entry point for analysis and critique. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects", Timothy Havens examines international media production in Budapest (HU) to think through the intersections of film/television locations and spatial politics. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher", Jack Black, Jim Cherrington and Samuel M. Clevenger critically interrogate contemporary manifestations of capitalist sport. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘As I get older, I am more and more comfortable in myself’", Sanna Kivimäki and Kirsi Lumme-Sandt provide an overview of understandings of older age and gender in the Finnish 50 + magazine ET from the 1970s to the 2010s. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In "Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas", @ozanmask.bsky.social and Selinay Yılmazer Öcal explore how viewers engage with the diverse and conflicting meanings presented in television dramas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere", Danielle Procope Bell argues that acknowledging the existence of the Black manosphere is important to combat violence against Black girls and women. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "The significance of place in book publishing: Insights from community publishing in regional Australia", Beth Driscoll et al. demonstrate how researching local places and community publishing reveals a new story of the future of the book. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "The racial optics of crisis: Racialized innocence and the politics of care in adolescence", @capableheart.bsky.social argues that Adolescence depends on the racial legibility of both its perpetrator and his victim. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Manosphere creep: Emotional and hermeneutic labour in Netflix's Adolescence", Meaghan Furlano examines the depiction of emotional and hermeneutic labour in the Netflix series Adolescence. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "The economic logic of right-wing populism in the culture industry", Rico Isaacs demonstrates the importance of focusing on cultural sites in explaining contemporary shifts towards right-wing populism and conspiratorial discourse. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "A care continuum", Daren Shi-Chi Leung examines Hong Kong’s food waste management through the concept of a ‘care continuum’ that spans from technologically-driven governance to community-embedded practices. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’", Esperanza Herrero tries to recover some of the alternative approaches and epistemic practices in the history of the field of communication. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Silver-haired heroines", Femke de Sutter examines the tropes used to portray older women in popular Belgian fiction films from 1945 to 2022 through qualitative content analysis. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Meme-ing while the world burns", Benjamin Litherland and Rachel Wood make a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....