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The agonistic imagination: the illiberal and pluralist possibilities of contemporary BrexLit fiction Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Marc Farrant
This essay explores recent work of Zadie Smith (‘The Embassy if Cambodia’, 2013, and ‘The Lazy River’, 2019) and David Szalay (All That Man Is, 2016), as examples of BrexLit fiction, a term coined ...
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Countering durian plantationocene visuality and the erasure of natureculture histories in Malaysia Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Gaik Cheng Khoo, Rusaslina Idrus
Large-scale durian plantations are now a major threat, causing deforestation and displacing the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, from their customary lands. This paper foc...
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Keep it locked (down): how Melbourne’s community radio stations performed scene functions in the context of the coronavirus pandemic Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Niamh Felton
While community radio scholars have been astute in documenting the democratic and socio-political value of community radio, there has been a lack of analysis towards its specifically musicalized ro...
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Account-sharing programme: beyond piracy streaming platforms in Indonesia Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Tangguh Okta Wibowo
Examining user practices at the centre of debates on video content consumption amidst the popularity of streaming platforms in Indonesia, this paper uses de Certeau’s work (1984) to understand the ...
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Digital infrastructure, ultra-fast broadband, and citizenship in the Gigatown competition in the South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Holly Randell-Moon
Gigatown (2013–2014) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a town ‘The fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a ...
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CSAA 30th anniversary and continuum Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Panizza Allmark, Timothy Laurie, John Tebbutt, Jessica Taylor
A note from the editors introducing the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)’s 30th anniversary special issue.
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Normporn: queer viewers and the TV that soothes us Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kévin Drif
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Correction Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-27
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)
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Migration and immigration in Europe and its edges Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Eralda L. Lameborshi
Literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century is often concerned with migration, immigration, and exile. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit W...
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Getting research funded: five essential rules for early career researchers Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Gilbert Caluya
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Vive la république européenne? Reading The European Balcony Project as artistic counter-public Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Anke S. Biendarra
The article first contextualizes the European Balcony Project (EBP), a manifesto written by authors Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse, and theatre director Milo Rau who subsequently put it up for discu...
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Beyond a queer utopia: interrogating misogyny in transnational boys love media Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Divya Garg, Xiaofei Yang
Boys love (BL) media, a transnational Asian genre centring on male couples, is gaining global attention and academic discussion. As a queer genre, BL has received much positive attention due to its...
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Digital intimacy performed in celebrity voice tweets: forging authenticity amid context collapse Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Seryun Lee
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has been used as one of the primary media used for communication and intimacy between celebrities and their geographically dispersed fans. Within online environmen...
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Moving beyond deficit media figurations of young people: troubling the contemporary ‘youth crime crisis’ Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Stewart Riddle, Andrew Hickey, Celmara Pocock, Alarnah McKee, Danika Skye, Rachael Wallis
It is common for the media to cast young people as dangerous and delinquent, particularly when those young people derive from marginalized backgrounds. Moral panics are fuelled and sustained by the...
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Jack Johnson’s quiet activism Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ian Collinson, Brent Keogh
Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is known for his laid back, inoffensive and seemingly uncontroversial music; however (perhaps paradoxically), he is also known for his environmental activism and acco...
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Global anniversaries and cultural rupture: September 11, COVID-19 and ethical cultural change Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rob Cover
This paper analyses the role of anniversaries of global events or crises to understand how their practice of memorial storytelling manages and governs cultural narratives of crises in ways that obs...
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Secularism, decoloniality and the veil: Kutlug Ataman and Cigdem Aydemir on hair and veiling Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ozlem Koksal
This article looks at the selected works by two artists, Kutlug Ataman and Cigdem Aydemir, whose works are tackling hair, with a particular commentary on veiled Muslim women in secular spaces. The ...
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Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Elizabeth Stephens, Baden Offord, Lisa Slater, Sukhmani Khorana, Greg Noble, Mark Gibson, Lola Montgomery, Rebecca Olive
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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LGBTQA+ allies and activism: past, present and future perspectives Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Wendy Cumming-Potvin
As homophobia, transphobia and biphobia continue to permeate local and global contexts, the role of allies has been recognized as beneficial in supporting equity for LGBTQI+ communities. The concep...
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The Rassemblement National on social media: the online rewards of gendered political speech for radical right politicians Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Maria Sigridur Finnsdottir
Social media has provided powerful tools for parties looking to grow their followings and spread their messages, and the radical right has made good use of these tools as they reach out to voters c...
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Southeast Asian Shapeshifters in the age of streaming: minor transnationalism, horror and reimagining MUBI in Malaysia Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Ana Grgić
In Malaysia, the re-emergence of local horror films at the start of the twenty-first century after nearly 30 years of absence coincided with the rise of a new wave of digital filmmaking. Since then...
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Beyond the spectacle: everyday witnessing for we that are here Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Julie Vulcan
In this paper, I reflect on the experience of the Australian summer bushfires of 2019/2020 and the different ways forms of media reporting amplified its affects. Across broadcast media, local respo...
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‘Go sharp or go home’: the competitive subcultural practices of historical Australian youth culture known as ‘Sharpies’ Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Paul ‘Nazz’ Oldham
This article is an examination of the competitive subcultural practices of Sharpies: a continental fashion-oriented Australian youth culture lasting from the early 1960s until the mid-1980s. Firstl...
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Noise, ecological crises, and the posthuman sensibility of Michel Serres in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Kevin J. Hunt
This article revisits Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi film Under the Skin, ten years on from its release in 2013, to re-read it through Michel Serres’s posthuman philosophy as an allegorical warning about...
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Contested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellers Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Minna Niemi
Helon Habila’s Travellers was written as a response to the refugee crisis in 2015, and it narrates loosely connected stories of African asylum seekers precariously travelling in Southern and Wester...
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Gender segregation & women’s rights in Muslim societies: de-constructing feminist opposition to spatial boundaries through the lens of feminist documentary film Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Zahid Khan
In many Muslim societies including Pakistan, the notions of spatial boundaries and gender segregation are becoming critical site for women’s rights and feminist activism. Sanctified through patriar...
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‘This felt more like a conversation’: challenging gender norms in electronic music production through alternative education programs Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Catherine Strong, Tami Gadir
This article argues that problematic gender norms in electronic music contexts – namely, their association with masculinity and overrepresentation by cis men – can be subverted through alternative ...
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Fear and posting in Nepal: countering spectacles of fear through everyday social media practices Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Martin Lundqvist
This article sheds light upon the cultural politics of fear in post-war Nepal by narrowing in on the Nepal banda – a recurring political spectacle in which the organizers seek to shut down Nepalese...
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Handshakes and hashtags: how changing social interactions make us feel awkward Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Guilherme Giolo, Alina Pavlova, Yosha Wijngaarden, Pauwke Berkers
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were implemented across the globe. These measures demanded replacing taken-for-granted social practices such as shaking hands with n...
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Figuring it out: ‘confusing’ non-binary gender in Runaways and The Order of the Stick Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Melissa Shani Brown, Jude Roberts
In this article we engage with the representation of non-binary gender in two sci-fi/fantasy comics (Runaways and The Order of the Stick), and metatextual discussion surrounding them. In our analys...
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It’s New, it’s revolutionary, and it’s modern. Vietnamese indie music in the age of digital streaming platforms Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Long Nguyen
In Vietnam, ‘indie music’ is an internet-based phenomenon that began in late 2015, spearheaded by a generation of young GenZ artists on the music sharing platform SoundCloud. As a contribution to t...
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Fight for the Wild: emotion and place in conservation, community formation, and national identity Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Geoffrey Craig
This study analyses the documentary series, Fight for the Wild, examining how emotional engagements with place facilitate a complex nexus of conservation practices, community formation, and feeling...
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Bodies in flux, cultural studies and the current critical climate Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Thor Kerr, Panizza Allmark
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)
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Climate nags: Affect and the convergence of global risk in online networks Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jessica Yarin Robinson
ABSTRACT Scholars have observed the need to better understand the role of emotion in the issue of climate change, as well as to better convey the relationship between climate and other global crises. This article takes up these two positions, investigating the way social media facilitates affective connections between climate and other global risks. Using Twitter data from three global events – Covid
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Terror: live Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Lewis Rarm
To what extent can the immediacy of live-streaming bring distant spectators into proximity with an event? In an article analysing the aesthetico-political stakes of terrorist-produced media, Lilie ...
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Underrated, overlooked, suppressed, discarded: canonical discourse and 1980s rock music from Australia and New Zealand Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Dean Biron, Suzie Gibson
In canonical narratives of rock music emanating from the global North, the music of Australia and New Zealand continues to be overlooked. This article considers the international critical reception...
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Wogs as work: humour as ethnic entrepreneurship and convivial labour Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Jessica Carniel, Jayne Persian
In post-war Australia, the word ‘wog’ was used to describe the southern Europeans who dominated the mass migration schemes, particularly Italians and Greeks. The evolution of ‘wog’ from slur to cel...
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Ghosts of eugenics’ past: ‘Childhood’ as a target for whitening race in the United States and Canada Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Joanne Faulkner
While in modernity childhood was increasingly invested with emotional and intellectual energy, it also became a site of scrutiny and intervention, so that philosophers, scientists, and humanitarian...
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From grassroots to dissent: media activism and campaigning for equality, diversity and inclusion in media industries Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Anne O’Brien, Páraic Kerrigan
Media access in terms of participation and representation are central issues for underrepresented groups, particularly in media systems that are dominated by a homogenous elite. This article sets o...
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‘Sissy that walk’: the queer kinaesthetics of mobility-through-difference Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Orlando Woods
This article advances the idea of ‘queer kinaesthetics’ to show how moving through difference can enable disaggregated individuals to realize a new sense of becoming. Doing so involves rejecting th...
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From broadcast media to distributed systems – John Hartley’s ‘cultural science’ and the future of ‘old’ cultural studies Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Mark Gibson
The paper assesses the significance for media and cultural studies of the collaborative interdisciplinary project initiated by John Hartley in the mid 2000s under the rubric of ‘cultural science’. ...
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Bodily surveillance: Singapore’s COVID-19 app and technological opportunism Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Terence Lee, Howard Lee
Singapore won early kudos for its ‘gold standard’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic back in February 2020. It was praised globally for its ability to activate an effective contact tracing system. R...
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Body of evidence: conspiracy, masculinity and otherness in ‘QAnon shaman’ meme discourses Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Jay Daniel Thompson
This article addresses a selection of 43 memes featuring the ‘QAnon shaman’, the alter-ego of actor Jake Angeli and a high-profile participant in the January 2021 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in Washingt...
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Book publicists and the labour of cultural intermediation Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Millicent Weber, Claire Parnell, Alexandra Dane
Book publicists are important intermediaries in generating earned media attention, creating discoverability opportunities, and getting new books into the hands of potential readers. Despite their i...
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Thai Boys Love drama fandom as a transnational and trans-subcultural contact zone in Japan Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Sae Shimauchi
Focusing on the online fandom of a Thai Boys Love (BL) drama in Japan, called tai-numa, this exploratory study examines its background, fan practices and experiences, and negotiations between fando...
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Birds as buddies: the politics of sentimentality in the Birds in backyards (Australia) Facebook site Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Ruth Barcan, Jay Johnston
ABSTRACT This paper takes up Howard’s (1999) suggestion that sentimentality can be a lens on self-world relations. It focuses on human-bird relations in a Facebook site dedicated to Australian wild birds: Birds in Backyards (Australia). We argue that the traditional ideal of intellectual and affective distance through which critiques of sentimentality are still so often couched is not very useful in
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The temporality of community sentiment on the Australian continent: mineral extraction, waste storage and Indigenous protest writing Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 James Gourley
ABSTRACT The Australian federal government has recently recommenced a previously paused process to select a site for a national nuclear waste storage facility despite significant opposition from Australian Indigenous communities and others. This article considers what some might understand as a contemporary issue by examining its relationship to previous events. It emphasizes how Western linear temporality
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How to care about coral rubble: deep sea cameras, cinematic realism, and mourning via mediated encounter Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Simon R. Troon
ABSTRACT This article analyses camera systems utilized in deep sea science, focussing on surveys and representations of deep sea coral devastated by trawl fishing in the South Pacific. Various custom, advanced camera technologies are used by governmental and non-governmental science agencies, including Australia’s CSIRO and Aotearoa New Zealand’s NIWA, to record footage of the deep water and the ocean
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Digital performance at the side stage: the communicative practices of classical musicians and music hobbyists on Instagram Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Maarit Jaakkola
ABSTRACT This paper examines musically active individuals’ communication work online as part of post-professional platformized cultural production, inquiring into classical musicians’ and music hobbyists’ strategic communication practices on the visual mobile app Instagram. The sample consists of pianists’, violinists’ and cellists’ (N = 269) personal but public Instagram accounts. Described as unpaid
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Asylum-seeker emergency and third spaces in the Inspector Montalbano TV series Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Barbara Pezzotti
ABSTRACT By analysing the TV episode ‘The Other End of the line’ (2019) through the lens of Bhabha’s concepts of ‘third space’ and ‘hybridity’ (1994), and Soja’s formulation of ‘thirdspace,’ this article argues that, far from being escapist viewing, the Inspector Montalbano TV series (Italy, 1999–2021) is a ‘geopolitical’ crime series (Saunders 2020, 1) that challenges the ‘nation-centred view of sovereign
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Field recordings as invitation and transportation Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Hollis Taylor
ABSTRACT This article reviews the history, methods, engagements, and longstanding debates of the sonic medium of field recording. It considers not just standalone field recordings but diverse music and sound art genres where environmental sounds feature. Although they diverge in their approaches, field recordists (and those who apply these recordings in creative practice) are united in the belief that
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Cultivating the audience: adaptation as technique in the case of Wake in Fright for Australia’s network 10 Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 David Evan Richard
ABSTRACT This article examines adaptation as an industrial strategy in the context of Australian commercial broadcast television. I analyse Kriv Stenders’s 2017 mini-series Wake in Fright—based on Kenneth Cook’s novel – for Network 10, Australia’s third commercial broadcaster. Wake in Fright imitates the features of ‘quality’ television, and I read the commission, development, and production of the
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Why no friends but the mountains: a new reading of Behrouz Boochani’s memoir in the Kurdish context Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Zhila Gholami
ABSTRACT In his 2018 memoir, No Friends but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani bears witness to the abuses of human rights he and his fellow refugees suffered in the Manus detention centre. While Boochani’s memoir has been largely read in terms of its political criticism of the oppressive system of the prison and colonial and neo-colonial discourses
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Mooncalf Menstrual Meat (MMM) Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 WhiteFeather Hunter
Mooncalf is a biological art project that employs the seemingly progenitive properties of menstrual fluid, hearkening back to matrilineal cultural beliefs that human embryos were created from or nu...
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Making bodies, craft skills and the legacies of policy ‘blokeism’ Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Susan Luckman
Drawing upon over a decade of research into craft and craft skills in Australia, this article identifies the skills challenges growing within the Australian making ecosystem. Bringing together qual...
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Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ben Beitler
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Happy Valley Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Rachel Ang
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Transnational suburbia: suburban settings in Australian video games Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Lesley Speed
ABSTRACT Video games with suburban settings offer distinctive experiences of quotidian environments. This article examines how Australian games set in homes or verdant residential neighbourhoods contribute to a global circulation of ideas about suburban life. It contributes to understanding the relationship between Australian games and Australian society by showing how gameworlds that represent everyday
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Mortality, moral regulation, and (im)moral entrepreneurship in My Favorite Murder Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Richard Green, Bethan Michael-Fox
ABSTRACT As mediated death has become a staple of contemporary society, debates about the treatment of death in the public domain abound. This article examines the true crime comedy podcast My Favorite Murder, arguing that it functions to produce a collaboratively ‘provocative morbid space’ in which its hosts and audiences can engage in contemplating, discussing, and negotiating the politics of murder
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