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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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...