Given its massive volume and rapid development of new trends, the universe of user-
generated content may seem utterly chaotic. Yet the flow of content is underlined by deep …

Despite frequent mentions of the “metaverse” in news reports, academic studies, and
individual discourse, there have been few systematic studies that explore the conception of …

Two emerging questions in the current digital media environment are how socio-political
issues are systematically circulated across various media platforms, including mainstream …

Responding to recent calls in sociolinguistics and social semiotics to study the material,
technological and embodied features of writing, this article examines Chinese users' …

In 2017, the MeToo hashtag spread across the globe. However, it showed limited success in
the Japanese Twittersphere and instead inspired local initiatives such as# WeToo and# …

Portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. Whether documenting graduation or
flexing in the gym, users express what they care about and present it for others to evaluate …

In 2014, a trans teenager named Leelah Alcorn posted a suicide letter to her public Tumblr
account. Almost a decade later, in 2023, Eden Knight, another young trans woman, posted a …

This essay advances the concept of ritualized nationalism in order to understand the rise of
right wing populism in India. It analyzes Narendra Modi's strategy of assigning tasks and …

While the term “values” is widely invoked to construct identities, set boundaries, and justify
decisions, its use has evaded systematic analysis. This is particularly intriguing in the …

The growth and expansion of the field of digital media studies and critical internet studies
opens up opportunities for it to engage with other existing areas of scholarship that can …