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Within the past 15 years, the cultural and political visibility of trans people has grown at an unprecedented rate; at the same time, social media increasingly mediates and shapes people’s coming together, activism, politics, ...

Wildlife documentaries have long been popular cultural products and important tools for environmental communication, yet their aesthetic dimensions have received comparatively little academic attention in the field of film ...

Superheroes are an American popular culture phenomenon that has spread across the globe. Superhero narratives are told in comics, film and TV, as well as in games and various fan-produced materials. In addition to superheroes ...

Within the last few decades, the videogame has become an important media, economic, and cultural phenomenon. Along with the phenomenon’s proliferation the aspects that constitute its identity have become more and more ...

Studies on porn audiences and the uses of porn in non-Western contexts remain limited to this day. Embarking to address this theoretical gap, this article-based dissertation studies the uses of porn and other sexual media ...

In contemporary neo-liberal cultures, fat and larger-than-normative bodies are often viewed as bodies in need of change. Due to constant pressure to transform, there is limited space available for the larger-than-normative ...

Addiction, and the experience of being addicted, is notoriously difficult to describe verbally and explain rationally. Would multifaceted and multisensory cinematic images work better in making addiction understandable? ...

Väestön ikääntymisen myötä vanhenemiseen liittyvät kulttuuriset käsitykset ja tulkinnat ovat murrostilassa. Media on yksi keskeinen areena, jossa ikääntymiseen liittyvää kulttuurista mielikuvitusta tuotetaan, arkipäiväisiä ...

ABSTRACT Social media have changed the ways in which we connect and experience the world around us. The article dissertation explores the affective, ambiguous power of social media parenting culture in contemporary ...