Media, Culture & Society- Volume: 39, Number: 2 (March 2017)

Original Articles

How to organise your body 101: postfeminism and the (re)construction of the female body through How to Look Good Naked
Christiana Tsaousi
Toward transformative media organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit media work in the United States
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Chris Schweidler, Transformative Media Organizing Project
‘These cameras are here for a reason’ – media coming out, symbolic power and the value of ‘participation’: behind the scenes of the Dutch reality programme Uit de Kast
Balázs Boross, Stijn Reijnders
Capitalism and the media: moral economy, well-being and capabilities
David Hesmondhalgh
‘We are not North Korea’: propaganda and professionalism in the People’s Republic of China
Margaret Simons, David Nolan, Scott Wright
Governance by algorithms: reality construction by algorithmic selection on the Internet
Natascha Just, Michael Latzer

Crosscurrents

Best and worst practice: a case study of qualitative gender balance in Irish broadcasting
Anne O’Brien, Jane Suiter
From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media
Michael B Munnik
Polar bears and ice: cultural connotations of Arctic environments that contradict the science of climate change
Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Richard S Vachula

Book Reviews

Book Review: Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
Annemarie Iddins
Book Review: Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge
Anna Lee Swan
Book Review: Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States
Yiannis Mylonas