The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and
social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread …

Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square
frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010. In the first book …

Software applications (apps) are now prevalent in the digital media environment. They are
the site of significant sociocultural and economic transformations across many domains …

Analysis of social media using digital methods is a flourishing approach. However, the
relatively easy availability of data collected via platform application programming interfaces …

Writing a book about social media is about as hard as it can get. Once the platform practices
have been documented and analysed, they have already passed their hashtagged used-by …

The animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a digital file format with a long history
within internet cultures and digital content. Emblematic of the early Web, the GIF fell from …

Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories,
methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over the past twenty-five years …

This article studies uses of Instagram by members of Indonesia's Hijabers' Community. It
shows how hijabers employ Instagram as a stage for performing middle-classness, but also …

This paper focuses on embodied visibility emerging in social Virtual Reality (VR) as a new
lens to explore how queer users build and experience visibility in nuanced ways. Drawing …

The cover image therefore also speaks to our interest in politics, and specifically in how
protesters harness the rhetorical power of the visual to fight the powerful. To simply bemoan …