Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction [0.03%]
社交媒体与道德恐慌:技术变迁对社会反应的影响评估
James P Walsh
James P Walsh
Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses the effects of social media - web-based venues that enable and encourage the production and exch...
Rethinking the 'wellness influencer': Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials [0.03%]
反思“ wellness influencer”:医学博士、生活方式专长与资质问题
Rachel ONeill
Rachel ONeill
Medical doctors are central to existing networks for wellness content on Instagram in and beyond the UK, yet remain overlooked within scholarship concerned with this terrain. Taking a case study approach, this article examines three such fi...
China as data coloniser? rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms [0.03%]
数据殖民者?反思电子商务平台上文化生产、文化传播与消费者能动性(以 Kenya 和中国为例)
Tommy Tse,Yin Zhang,Nanne Van Noord
Tommy Tse
Has China become a neo-colonizer, exporting its cultural and economic power to the world based on its agenda of building soft power? Existing scholarship on neocolonialism and data colonialism largely focuses on how China's infrastructural ...
Marc Steinberg,Lin Zhang,Rahul Mukherjee
Marc Steinberg
This article argues for a pluralization of the "platform capitalism" framework, suggesting we should think instead in terms of "platform capitalisms." This pluralization opens the way to a better account of how platforms work in different g...
Paul Frosh,Myria Georgiou
Paul Frosh
This is the Introduction to the special issue on Covid-19 and the cultural constructions of a global crisis. Contextualizing understandings of the pandemic in relation to the concepts of 'event' and 'crisis', especially to the idea that mod...
We got you covered: Contextualizing industry insurance practices and the response to Covid-19 [0.03%]
为您服务:行业保险惯例与新冠应对措施的时代背景分析
Derek Johnson
Derek Johnson
In response to Covid-19, media industries have increasingly relied upon insurance to manage risks to health and productivity loss surrounding creative labor. Analysis of contemporary trade journals reveals how the pandemic prompted new urge...
'Generic visuals' of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration [0.03%]
“新冠肺炎”的新闻报道中的通用视觉效果:通过象征性再表述引发共鸣
Giorgia Aiello,Helen Kennedy,C W Anderson et al.
Giorgia Aiello et al.
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and 'flatten-the-curve' line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people wearing face masks in everyday settings, choropleth map...
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic [0.03%]
疫情下的人之为人:数字劳动、食品外送与新人类的可能性
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Posthuman is a social condition of humans losing control, especially to technological forces, and a cultural framing beyond Enlightenment modernity. Building on the posthuman critique, this article examines digital labour and food delivery ...
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic [0.03%]
抗疫有责的自我:大流行病下的国家建构政策回应
Shani Orgad,Radha Sarma Hegde
Shani Orgad
National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic ha...
Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis [0.03%]
公共性与共同化:危机时刻的疫情交汇点与集体愿景
Myria Georgiou,Gavan Titley
Myria Georgiou
In this article, we examine publicness during the pandemic, with a particular focus on the conditions it creates or constricts for engagement, solidarity and collective action. We interrogate the intensive publicness of the crisis to reflec...