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• “On misogynoir: citation, erasure, and plagiarism”
• “Influencer snark and the digital gossip economy”
• “The Shadowban Cycle”
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Recent highly cited articles (last 3 years) include work on:
• Gender bias in AI-generated images
• Global #MeToo mobilizations
• Anti-feminist influencers on TikTok
• The reactionary turn in popular feminism
Feminist analysis remains central to understanding digital culture and power!
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• 95 Wikipedia citations
• 545 X posts
• 139 Bluesky posts
• Coverage across 10 attention sources
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New readership, citation, and Altmetric highlights from Feminist Media Studies 📊 Our work continues to travel widely across scholarship, policy spaces, digital publics, and news media! Here are a few recent snapshots:
Popular culture is not a distraction. It is where political struggle over gender is actively unfolding. Curious what others see in these lists. What feels underrepresented? What debates are crystallizing? What is the next conceptual move?
Taken together, the field right now appears:
• Deeply transnational
• Platform-focused
• Concerned with postfeminism and backlash simultaneously
• Increasingly attentive to AI, infrastructures, and governance
• Tongwen Xu, Yunhong Lyu & Jingsen Zhong, “‘Hegemonic’ but ‘obedient’ AI boyfriend: the hybrid masculinity of the AI boyfriend and female domination in the China-based FAII” (2025)
Feminist media studies is increasingly grappling with algorithmic production, synthetic imagery, and automation.
5 -- AI and platform infrastructures are moving to the center.
• Anna M. Gorska & Dariusz Jemielniak, “The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals” (2023)
• Henry Price, “Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel” (2023)
• Camilla Nelson, “‘A public orgy of misogyny’: gender, power, media, and legal spectacle in Depp v Heard” (2024)
Backlash is not marginal to the field. It is constitutive of it.
4 -- Digital misogyny and reactionary politics remain urgent. Among the most cited:
• Jilly Boyce Kay, “The reactionary turn in popular feminism” (2024)
• Danielle Procope Bell, “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere” (2023)
• Xiaofei Yang & Ning Hu, “#girls help girls#: feminist discussions and affective heterotopia in patriarchal China” (2023)
• Mengmeng Liu, “#MeToo in China” (2023)
This signals a sustained reorientation of the field beyond Anglo-US frameworks.
3 -- China is central to feminist media studies. Across both most-read and most-cited lists:
• Yihuan Zhang & Ling Tang, “Postfeminism with Chinese characteristics” (2026)
• Qianqian Li, “‘Eileen Gu fetish’ as a feminist phenomenon” (2023)
• Sonja Petrovic, “(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok” (2025)
• Mareike Fenja Bauer, “Beauty, baby and backlash? Anti-feminist influencers on TikTok” (2023)
TikTok is being theorized as a site of self-optimization, backlash, girlishness, and platformed postfeminism.
2 -- TikTok remains central to feminist inquiry. Recent highly read and cited articles include:
• Stephanie Patouras & Megan Sharp, “The endless project of the feminine self: ‘locked-down femininity’ and becoming #ThatGirl on TikTok” (2025)
• Huiming Liu, “Barbie, motherhood and invisibilisation of labour” (2025)
• Lin Jiao, Yue Jin & Yang Shen, “Polarized views over feminism: gendered reception of Barbie among Chinese audiences” (2025)
The afterlives of popular feminism continue to generate debate, especially transnationally.
1 -- Barbie is not done with us. Multiple highly read pieces engage Barbie from different angles:
• Michael Burke & Natalie Kon-Yu, “‘Get in the box, you Jezebel!’: Barbie, gender identity and coalitional feminism” (2025)
Feminist Media Studies colleagues, I was looking at the most read and most cited articles in Feminist Media Studies this week, and the patterns are striking. A short thread on what seems to be shaping the field right now:
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