This paper provides a Latin American rooted ‘Antropofagia’ approach to creativity amid debates about the implications of creative work and image-generating Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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This article asks how queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material were articulated as activism in Latin America, debating the cultural and political meanings of these practices in a global context.

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This article discusses solidarity fatigue, a sense of psychological or physical exhaustion experienced by those expressing solidarity, encompassing emotional, legal, and sociocultural dimensions.

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This study examines the expression of nostalgia among viewers of popular Turkish TV series. The findings reveal that they idealize the eras depicted by attributing their nostalgia to contemporary social and economic instability.

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This article discusses how historical dramas in Turkey are cultural artifacts that seek to produce and reproduce a populist Turkishness in ways that situate Turkish identity at the intersection of Islam and empire.

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This paper identifies a powerful discourse that popular culture is beneficial and makes us ‘smarter’, ‘better’, ‘faster’ or ‘kinder’, examining its politics in the online press.

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Recent years have seen the increasing visibility of kathoey, a Thai colloquial term for transgender women, as social media influencers. This study aims to analyse the emerging mode of labour which largely depends on platforms.

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This article explores diverse forms of Rohingya art that amplify their voices and addresses barriers in producing and disseminating art, based on interviews with artists, researchers, and practitioners, field visits and social media.

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This study explores the digital practices of Jinü (Chinese radical feminists) through the cultural politics of emotion, identifying “rage” as a critical “emotional rule” - directed at men, other women, and LGBTQ + individuals.

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This article disrupts the idea of the White Paper Movement as a landmark anti-authoritarian movement by examining how women, queers, and Uyghurs were represented and rhetorically positioned within it.

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It examines the tension between public gender expressions and official regulations, arguing that han-xu politics functions as the Chinese party-state's strategy to perpetuate the hetero-patriarchal social-familial system.

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The authors argue that generic visuals promote banal nationalism, localism and cosmopolitanism in the face of the crisis, doing so through the symbolic reiteration of a range of visual resources across news stories.

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The article situates ‘carewashing’ in relation to longer-term strategies of corporate ‘social responsibility’ and cause-related marketing, showing how practices are being reinvented amidst profound neoliberal instability.

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This paper calls for a shift in perspective, moving away from assumptions (re)produced by policymakers and media towards an approach grounded in children's experiences, considering the implications of TikTok in a positive manner.

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At the TikTok & Children Symposium, the TikTok Cultures Research Network dialogued with TikTok personnel about provisions for young people, such as design changes, API access, age-gating and balancing universality and regionality.
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This mixed-methods study analyzes TikTok's Community Guidelines to protect children, discussing strategies such as scaffolding rules by age and risk, segmenting content with tailored policies, and siloing features from children.

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