Global Storytelling, Vol. 4, No. 1: The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and Misogyny (Summer 2024)

Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images serves as an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, and technology of the moving image. This special issue (Vol 4.1) tackles the topic of The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and Misogyny.

Hong Zeng is a cultural studies scholar whose research centers on the
dynamics of gender and spatial politics within visual cultural production.
Her work critically examines how ideologies operate and the various forms
of resistance they generate in creative industries. She is currently assistant
professor of the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has
published articles in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Visual Communication,
Feminist Media Studies, and Continuum: Journal of Media &
Cultural Studies, among others. She was the 2020 Yale-China Arts Fellow
and was a visiting scholar at the School of the Arts, Columbia University, in
2015. She is currently working on her monograph, Women Artists Reshaping
Spatial Politics in Hong Kong.

Dr. Frankie Rogan is an associate professor in sociology at the University
of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the role of digital
cultures in producing contemporary gendered identities. Her monograph
Digital Femininities explores the role of social media platforms in
constructing cultural and political identities among girls and young women
in England

Stefania Marghitu is an assistant professor in film and television in the
Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama.
She is the author of Teen TV (Routledge TV Genre Guidebooks, 2021). She
has also published work in journals such as Feminist Media Studies; New
Review of Film and Television Studies; and Communication, Culture and Critique
and edited collections such as White Supremacy in the American Media
and ReFocus on Amy Heckerling. She received her PhD from the University
of Southern California’s Division of Cinema and Media Studies in 2020
and has previously taught at Pitzer College; Chapman University; California
State University, Northridge; and Loyola University New Orleans. She
is currently working on a book manuscript on women showrunners in US
network television.

Jennifer O’Meara is associate professor of film studies at Trinity College
Dublin, where she specializes in digital theory and practice and is a mentor
on the HUMAN+ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions fellowship program,
focused on human-centered approaches to technology. She has published
on a diverse range of film and media topics in venues such as Cinema Journal,
NECSUS, Feminist Media Studies, Celebrity Studies, and PRESENCE:
Virtual and Augmented Reality. Her second book, Women’s Voices in Digital
Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes (University of Texas Press,
2022), received the Honourable Mention prize for Best Monograph from
the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (2023). Her
current Irish Research Council Starting Laureate Award (2022–2026) project
is titled “From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality: Reformulating
Screen Studies at the Precipice of Hyper-reality.”

Jiayi Chen is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick,
United Kingdom. She obtained her MA from the London School of Economics
and Political Science. Her research interests cover feminism, postfeminist
surveillance culture, mediated self-representation, and critical
discourse studies.

Altman Yuzhu Peng is currently an associate professor at the University of
Warwick. He received his PhD from Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
His research interests lie at the intersections of critical discourse studies,
feminism, media and cultural studies, and masculinity studies.

Fan Xiao is a PhD candidate at the School of Communication, Hong Kong
Baptist University. She is interested in Chinese digital culture, popular
gender discourses, and subcultural communities. Her research appears on
Media, Culture & Society, Global Media and China, and Chinese Journal of
Communication.

Yue Huang is a PhD candidate at the School of Communication, Hong
Kong Baptist University. He received his bachelor’s degree in management
from Anhui Normal University and a master’s degree in arts from the University
of Science and Technology of China. He is interested in subcultures
and online communities.

Dr. Liew Kai Khiun is currently an assistant professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan
University, focused on transnational media and cultural studies
in the context of East and Southeast Asia. Among one of his research interests
in this field is that of the sociocultural dimensions of digital and social
media in Singapore. The related scholarly works cover that of heritage advocacy
and social media, Internet social histories, digital memes, digital youth
politics, online popular music, and regulatory policies. He has also formally
provided input at public parliamentary hearings in Singapore on the areas of
digital disinformation as well. Works-in-progress include that of LGBTQ+
related streaming sites in Singapore and the role of the Internet in sustaining
Singlish, Singapore’s resilient linguistic vernacular. Underlying Kai Khiun’s
scholarly endeavor is his recognition of the empowering and creative potential
of cyberspace.

Kirsten Han is a writer, journalist, editor, and activist from Singapore. She
runs the email newsletter We, the Citizens, which covers Singapore through
a rights-based lens, and also Altering States, an irregular newsletter reflecting
on drug policy from a Singaporean’s perspective. She is a member of
the Transformative Justice Collective, an abolitionist group, and has been
an anti-death penalty activist since 2010. Her first book, The Singapore
I Recognise: Essays on Home, Community and Hope, was published by Ethos
Books in 2023. Kirsten graduated with a masters in journalism, media and
communcations from Cardiff University, where she studied as a Chevening
Scholar, in 2014.

Sara Liao is an assistant professor of media studies at the Department of
Film Productions and Media Studies, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications,
Pennsylvania State University. She is a media scholar and
feminist, researching the intersectional area of digital media, feminism,
globalization, and East Asian popular culture. She is currently working on
theorizing and writing about digital feminist activism and the culture of
misogyny in China.

Dr. HaeLim Suh is an associate professor in the School of Communication,
Film and Theater at the University of North Georgia. Her research
focuses on media globalization, popular culture, and gender, race/ethnicity,
and class identity. She teaches a variety of courses, including Korean cinema,
globalization and South Korean media, intercultural communication, and
film appreciation.

Olivia Stowell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication
and Media at the University of Michigan, with dual enrollment in the Digital
Studies Institute. Her research focuses on discursive formations of race,
racism, and racialization on twenty-first-century reality television, as well as
reality TV’s circulations in digital spaces. Her scholarship has appeared in
Television & New Media, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and the
volume Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and
Media. Her public writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of
Books, Post45 Contemporaries, ASAP/J, Avidly, and elsewhere

Emma Conatser Rektenwald is a masters student in the Department of
Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is
primarily concerned with the connections between cinematic sound and
the representation of gender in 1950s Hollywood Westerns. Other research
interests include film music, film history, and feminist media study. She is
deeply invested in the accessibility of archival research and hopes to continue
to use archival methods in future projects.

Kristen Leer is an NSF-GRP fellow and PhD student at the University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor specializing in media psychology. Her research focuses
on the intersectional relationship between trauma, media, and culture, specifically
among marginalized racial/ethnic digital users.