Cultural Media Studies

The rapid convergence of digital and social media platforms, legacy mass media, and grassroots organization and activism, have radically transformed how power, identity, and resistance are constructed in today’s world. Contemporary social action has moved beyond foundational hashtag movements, and how spans algorithmic resistance, digital mutual aid, decentralized journalism, and global solidarity networks. Evolving and diversifying representations can now be found across a wide range of media - from algorithmic subversion and creator-led journalism to transnational digital coalitions. Contemporary culture and technological media developments thus warrant ongoing rigorous, intersectional, global cultural media analysis.

The Peter Lang Cultural Media Studies book series invites book proposals and completed manuscripts for review on a rolling basis. We publish innovative work across a range of formats, including sole-authored monographs, edited collections, multiple-authored books, handbooks, and short format books. Works in this series critically examine mass personal media production and consumption, the synergistic relationship between media and social change, audience reception, and mediated representation across gender, feminism(s), sexuality, race, ethnicity, and intersecting identity groups.