We're pleased to share some excellent news: International Journal of Cultural Studies has received its highest Impact Factor to date, 2.4, placing the journal 1st out of 66 publications in the Cultural Studies category.

Have you read our 29.3 issue yet? Follow the thread to know more about the articles 🧵

Have you read our 29.2 issue yet? We would like to thank guest editors Henry Jenkins and Kedi Zhou (University of Southern California, USA) for bringing together this special issue on Transcultural Fandom. Follow the thread to know more about the articles 🧵 @popjunctions.bsky.social

🗣️🔊 We are proud to announce the Call for Papers for the next special issue, "Decoloniality in Media and Cultural Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward". Share this with your network and @ that colleague who can make a great contribution to decoloniality in media and cultural studies! 👩🏾‍🏫🧑🏻‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫

Have you read our 29.1 issue yet? Follow the thread to know more about the articles 🧶

Check out the article "Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures", authored by Do Own (Donna) Kim and Fang Wu, in our Online First section. doi.org/10.1177/1367... #IJCSOnlineFirst @doowndonnakim.bsky.social

In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article "Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance", by Kedi Zhou, Yuqi Yang, and Xinyue Zhang. doi.org/10.1177/1367... #IJCSOnlineFirst

In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article “Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom”, by Yoonsuh Jung, Tiara Wilson, and Ying Wang. doi.org/10.1177/1367... #IJCSOnlineFirst

You can also check out Benjamin Litherland’s podcast about it: open.spotify.com/episode/16jI... @benlitherland.bsky.social

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This paper identifies a powerful discourse that popular culture is beneficial and makes us ‘smarter’, ‘better’, ‘faster’ or ‘kinder’, examining its politics in the online press. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @benlitherland.bsky.social

Have you read our 28.6 issue yet? Follow the thread to know more about the articles 🧵

We are now on Instagram too! Follow us to stay updated on contemporary Cultural Studies: www.instagram.com/ijcs.journal/

We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy”, authored by Tingting Hu, Liang Ge, Ziyao Chen, and Xu Xia.

We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration”, authored by Aiello, Kennedy, Anderson, and Røstvik.

We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19”, authored by Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler.

Have you read our 28.5 issue yet? Follow the thread to know more about the articles 🧶

📢😊Excited to share my new piece just out in International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social “Pawns in the power struggle” looks at how Chinese content creators navigate the messy pressures of MCNs, platforms, and state control. Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance - @producing2power.bsky.social, & @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social (2025). Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article “Finishing the business: Disentangled narratives of gendered success, diasporic citizenship and the ongoing quest for balance”, by Radha Sarma Hegde. doi.org/10.1177/1367... #IJCSOnlineFirst

In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article “Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s”, by Jamie J. Zhao. doi.org/10.1177/1367... #IJCSOnlineFirst

In our OnlineFirst section, you can access the very latest papers in the field. Check out the article "'I don’t want my parents to know I do video clips': Managing familial relations to pursue creative work in Accra, Ghana", by Nii Kotei Nikoi. doi.org/10.1177/1367... #IJCSOnlineFirst

We are presenting the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. This week's article is “Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication”, authored by Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller.

We are presenting the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. This week's article is “‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism”, authored by Marcel van den Haak, Liedeke Plate, and Selina Bick.

In this series, we present the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. The first article is “Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction”, authored by James P. Walsh.

The editorial board members play a pivotal role as the journal’s ambassadors. They are responsible not only for reviewing articles, but also for encouraging outstanding researchers to submit their work. They also help with issues of ethics, representation, and accountability in knowledge creation.

Meet our new team! 🧶 Laura Guimarães Corrêa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Wen Jin (East China Normal University, China), and Jonathan Ong (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA), co-editors of the International Journal of Cultural Studies, published by SAGE Publishing @sagepub.com

We are now on Instagram too! Follow us to stay updated on contemporary Cultural Studies: www.instagram.com/ijcs.journal/

Have you read our 28.4 issue yet? 🧶 Follow the thread to know more about the articles:

What and where is Cultural Studies today? What is it becoming? What should or could it become? What is its meaning? What is at stake as we assess the ongoing development and maturation of Cultural Studies as field?

We publish theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity.

In IJCS: @anirbanbaishya.bsky.social explores the new resurgence of global, far right nationalisms fueled by digital technologies through the case of the media event around the release and reception of The Kashmir Files in India in 2022. buff.ly/JNZKNuj