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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 ...

In the beginning of its 10th year of existence Facebook has engaged and connected 1.2 billion monthly active users. This article-based dissertation Disconnect.Me – User Engagement and Facebook approaches this engagement ...

This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on 10–17-year-old Finns' engagement with and thoughts of pornography. The emotional debates – both public and academic – concerning the consumption of pornography ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Acts of remembering in documentary film create temporal, audiovisual compilations that interweave historical and imagined realities. They disrupt linear perceptions of temporality, and generate new ways of perceiving, ...

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 ...