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Hong Zeng is a cultural studies scholar whose research centers on thedynamics of gender and spatial politics within visual cultural production.Her work critically examines how ideologies operate and the various formsof resistance they generate in creative industries. She is currently assistantprofessor of the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University. She haspublished 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 Fellowand was a visiting scholar at the School of the Arts, Columbia University, in2015. She is currently working on her monograph, Women Artists ReshapingSpatial Politics in Hong Kong.Dr. Frankie Rogan is an associate professor in sociology at the Universityof Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the role of digitalcultures in producing contemporary gendered identities. Her monographDigital Femininities explores the role of social media platforms inconstructing cultural and political identities among girls and young womenin EnglandStefania Marghitu is an assistant professor in film and television in theDepartment of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama.She is the author of Teen TV (Routledge TV Genre Guidebooks, 2021). Shehas also published work in journals such as Feminist Media Studies; NewReview of Film and Television Studies; and Communication, Culture and Critiqueand edited collections such as White Supremacy in the American Mediaand ReFocus on Amy Heckerling. She received her PhD from the Universityof Southern California’s Division of Cinema and Media Studies in 2020and has previously taught at Pitzer College; Chapman University; CaliforniaState University, Northridge; and Loyola University New Orleans. Sheis currently working on a book manuscript on women showrunners in USnetwork television.Jennifer O’Meara is associate professor of film studies at Trinity CollegeDublin, where she specializes in digital theory and practice and is a mentoron the HUMAN+ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions fellowship program,focused on human-centered approaches to technology. She has publishedon 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 DigitalMedia: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes (University of Texas Press,2022), received the Honourable Mention prize for Best Monograph fromthe British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (2023). Hercurrent Irish Research Council Starting Laureate Award (2022–2026) projectis titled “From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality: ReformulatingScreen 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 Economicsand Political Science. Her research interests cover feminism, postfeministsurveillance culture, mediated self-representation, and criticaldiscourse studies.Altman Yuzhu Peng is currently an associate professor at the University ofWarwick. 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 KongBaptist University. She is interested in Chinese digital culture, populargender discourses, and subcultural communities. Her research appears onMedia, Culture & Society, Global Media and China, and Chinese Journal ofCommunication.Yue Huang is a PhD candidate at the School of Communication, HongKong Baptist University. He received his bachelor’s degree in managementfrom Anhui Normal University and a master’s degree in arts from the Universityof Science and Technology of China. He is interested in subculturesand online communities.Dr. Liew Kai Khiun is currently an assistant professor at Hong Kong MetropolitanUniversity, focused on transnational media and cultural studiesin the context of East and Southeast Asia. Among one of his research interestsin this field is that of the sociocultural dimensions of digital and socialmedia in Singapore. The related scholarly works cover that of heritage advocacyand social media, Internet social histories, digital memes, digital youthpolitics, online popular music, and regulatory policies. He has also formallyprovided input at public parliamentary hearings in Singapore on the areas ofdigital disinformation as well. Works-in-progress include that of LGBTQ+related streaming sites in Singapore and the role of the Internet in sustainingSinglish, Singapore’s resilient linguistic vernacular. Underlying Kai Khiun’sscholarly endeavor is his recognition of the empowering and creative potentialof cyberspace.Kirsten Han is a writer, journalist, editor, and activist from Singapore. Sheruns the email newsletter We, the Citizens, which covers Singapore througha rights-based lens, and also Altering States, an irregular newsletter reflectingon drug policy from a Singaporean’s perspective. She is a member ofthe Transformative Justice Collective, an abolitionist group, and has beenan anti-death penalty activist since 2010. Her first book, The SingaporeI Recognise: Essays on Home, Community and Hope, was published by EthosBooks in 2023. Kirsten graduated with a masters in journalism, media andcommuncations from Cardiff University, where she studied as a CheveningScholar, in 2014.Sara Liao is an assistant professor of media studies at the Department ofFilm Productions and Media Studies, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications,Pennsylvania State University. She is a media scholar andfeminist, researching the intersectional area of digital media, feminism,globalization, and East Asian popular culture. She is currently working ontheorizing and writing about digital feminist activism and the culture ofmisogyny in China.Dr. HaeLim Suh is an associate professor in the School of Communication,Film and Theater at the University of North Georgia. Her researchfocuses 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, andfilm appreciation.Olivia Stowell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communicationand Media at the University of Michigan, with dual enrollment in the DigitalStudies Institute. Her research focuses on discursive formations of race,racism, and racialization on twenty-first-century reality television, as well asreality TV’s circulations in digital spaces. Her scholarship has appeared inTelevision & New Media, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and thevolume Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film andMedia. Her public writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review ofBooks, Post45 Contemporaries, ASAP/J, Avidly, and elsewhereEmma Conatser Rektenwald is a masters student in the Department ofRadio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research isprimarily concerned with the connections between cinematic sound andthe representation of gender in 1950s Hollywood Westerns. Other researchinterests include film music, film history, and feminist media study. She isdeeply invested in the accessibility of archival research and hopes to continueto use archival methods in future projects.Kristen Leer is an NSF-GRP fellow and PhD student at the University ofMichigan-Ann Arbor specializing in media psychology. Her research focuseson the intersectional relationship between trauma, media, and culture, specificallyamong marginalized racial/ethnic digital users.

• Global Storytelling, Vol. 4, No. 1: The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and MisogynySpecial Issue Editor: Hong ZengThe Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and MisogynyHong ZengPerspective Piece Evolving Notions of Consumption, “Influencing,” and Postfeminist Femininity in Digital Cultures: A Perspective PieceFrankie RoganResearch Articles Seamful Sutures: Gender Exploration and Identity Expression Using Augmented Reality Facial FiltersStefania Marghitu and Jennifer O’MearaA Girlfriend Gaze on Romantic Feelings: Coconstructing Postfeminist Selfhood on DoubanJiayi Chen and Altman Yuzhu PengFrom Digital Satire to Feminist Counterpublic Discourse: A Study of Participatory Mashups in China During the COVID-19 PandemicFan Xiao and Yue HuangDigital Advocacy Journalism’s Push for the Narrative Tipping Point of Singapore’s Capital PunishmentLiew Kai Khiun and Kirsten HanWomen Politicians, Social Movements, and Misogyny in Democratic StrugglesSara LiaoAspiring and Deprecating Female Influencers: Communicative Capitalism and the Positioning of Women EntrepreneursHaeLim SuhBook Reviews Social Media and New FemininitiesA Review of Digital Femininities: The Gendered Construction of Cultural and Political Identities Online by Frankie Rogan, London: Routledge, 2022Olivia StowellDefining the Sound of FemininityA Review of Women’s Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes by Jennifer O’Meara, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022Emma Conatser RektenwaldThe Way Digital Technologies Allow Networked Feminist Activism to DevelopA Review of Networked Feminism: How Digital Media Makers Transform Gender Justice Movements by Rosemary Clark-Parsons, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022Kristen Leer