The proliferation of effeminate male images known as “little fresh meat”(xiao xian rou), or,
more insultingly,“sissy pants”(niangpao) in film, TV, and advertisement has come in for …

Sevgili dostum ve meslektaşım Mutlu Binark'ın kaleme aldığı “Kültürel Diplomasi ve Kore
Dalgası 'Hallyu'-Güney Kore'de Sinema Endüstrisi, K-Dramalar ve K-Pop” isimli bu kitap …

The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in
contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing …

While the processes of production and consumption are increasingly interrelated in society,
there is a bourgeoning literature on consumers' increased power through the prosumption …

In contrast to the infrastructural properties of Western media platforms aiming at market
power expansion, the digital platform model in China is designed and developed with a …

Is it ever acceptable to “borrow” culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over
intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These questions are often at the …

In meeting the changing demands of authenticity and visibility in social media, performances
of identity and connections are discussed to entail new sociotechnical labours and digital …

This paper examines the social construction of 'fashionability'–namely, what is 'desirable'and
'fashionable'–with reference to the concept 'cultural mediators' that foregrounds agency …

Celebrity is the condition of being famous, known and recognized in each community due to
the attention given by social media to specific (celebrated) figures. Different notions have …

The pace of change in international media, culture and communication has accelerated
today, and a more significant change in the global environment over the past two decades …