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In this new #OnlineFirst article, Bridget Backhaus & Heather Anderson reveal how the affective labour of volunteers is central to community radio—building communities and sustaining diverse voices on the airwaves.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Ayesha Omer explores Karachi’s 2015 #heatwave as a “thermal ecology” where media, governance, and community art intersect—highlighting urgent social and ecological challenges of extreme heat.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi & @MogProf show how US daycare apps reshape parenting and care work, reinforcing gendered expectations and ideals of intensive parenting.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Jaume Doménech-Beltrán & Lidia Valera-Ordaz find that Basque national identity & party support drive Basque public television viewership—showing how Basque TV straddles cultural promotion & nation building📺

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @pettertornberg explores how hype & financial narratives empower Big Tech through self-fulfilling prophecies. What critics call #surveillancecapitalism, investors see as profit. This article call for critical hype studies.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Jin Dai explores how family photographs help remember Han migration to Xinjiang since the 1950s—connecting personal memories to official narratives of nation-building. @lborouniversity .

In this new #OnlineFirst article, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye explores how turning music royalties into investment assets deepens inequality. The study reveals how financialisation reshapes musicians’ rights & income. @UniversityLeeds

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Laura H. Marshall & Steve Bien-Aimé examine how newspapers in the US, UK & Ireland frame efforts to ban #LGBTQ books. Stories often pit activists vs. conservatives—while sidelining queer authors’ voices. #BookBans

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Payal Arora & @simone_natale argue that global #AI debates must move beyond abstract ethics. By situating AI in everyday cultural contexts, they spotlight how global-local dynamics shape our interactions with tech.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Jessica Pettengill explores how award-winning US podcasts use first-person storytelling to challenge objectivity in journalism. @michiganstateu .

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @zbensonzhou & Yang Liu explore how the Chinese state & social media frame #EileenGu’s national & cultural identity. Is she Chinese by being or by becoming? This study reveals complex tensions in national identity.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @fanliang86 introduces tethered labor to explain how MCNs shape and constrain content creation in China’s platform economy. #DigitalLabour #PlatformEconomy .

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Peter Arne Johnson traces the financial ecologies behind Pagan Peak and private equity's role in transnational TV production. @UTAustin

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @jec_free, Alice Baroni & @Mjple compare how UK & Italian newspapers visualise #femicide. They show how media images shape public understandings of domestic violence & women’s equality.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Raluca Creangă examines how Romanian users—despite lacking local language support—integrate smart speakers into homes & how these devices reinforce gendered labour under the guise of care. #SmartTech #GenderTech @UNIBUC

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @ICTlivingston @babakbahador9 reframe US right-wing talk radio’s hate speech as a communication ritual—affirming in-group identity while marginalising others. They offer a fresh take on the “propaganda feedback loop.”

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @NessCeCe examines how practitioners of color in UK & US advertising industries experience racism—in both workplace and informal settings. EDI roles, she finds, are often weaponised to exclude them from key projects.

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Sreedhar Nemmani proposes a Buddhist philosophical conceptualization to rethink #communication as an epistemic practice and calls for decentering the (Western) meta-scientific worldviews. @TempleUniv

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In this new #OnlineFirst article, Rebecca Monteleone & colleagues explore how people with intellectual #disabilities perceive and experience news media, .highlighting the urgent need for inclusive journalism. @ljmcastle @UToledo .