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Early Popular Visual Culture
Journal examining popular visual culture before 1930, covering cinema, photography, the magic lantern, panoramas, music halls, illustrated books, cartoon strips, and more.
Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Journal providing interdisciplinary environment for fashion academics and practitioners to publish scholarship in all aspects of fashion and popular culture relating to design, textiles, production, promotion, consumption, and appearance-related products and services.
Fashion Theory
Journal providing international & interdisciplinary forum for analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising.
Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research
Non-profit, open-access, cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to games research focusing on aesthetic, cultural, and communicative aspects of computer games.
Gothic Studies
Journal covering the areas of gothic studies (within the fields of literature, writing, literary history, arts & humanities, and history specialties) from 18th century to present day.
Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media
Online peer-reviewed journal addressing all aspects of cult media, including cult television, cult film, cult radio, cult comics, literary cults and cult authors, new media cults, cult figures and celebrities, cult icons, musical cults, cult geographies, historical studies of media cults and their fandoms, cult genres (e.g. science fiction, horror, fantasy, pulp fiction, Manga, anime, Hong Kong film, etc.), non-generic modes of cultishness, theorisations of cult media, relevant audience and readership studies, and work that addresses the cult media industry.
Journal of American Culture
Articles and reviews on all aspects of American culture, its antecedents and impact on their cultures.
Journal of Consumer Culture
Journal supporting interdisciplinary research focused on consumption and consumer culture, drawing on both theory and empirical research.
Journal of European Popular Culture
Journal investigating the present and past creative cultures of Europe by exploring popular imagery, media, new media, film, music, art and design, architecture, drama and dance, fine art, literature, and the writing arts.
Journal of Games Criticism
Non-profit, peer-reviewed, open-access journal featuring video games criticism with a focus on influencing gamer culture, the design and writing of video games, and the social understanding of video games and video games criticism.
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal in which its editors and authors work to break down barriers between so-called “low” and “high” culture. Focuses on filling in gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in the understanding of the workings of society.
Journal of Popular Film & Television
Journal dedicated to popular film and television, with concentrations on commercial cinema and television, theory/criticism, interviews, filmographies, bibliographies, stars, directors, producers, studios, and networks.
Journal of Religion & Popular Culture
Journal covering topics in religious studies and cultural studies, focusing on popular culture.
Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture
Journal devoted to study of representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms. Aims to publish scholarship on topics at intersection of media/popular culture and queerness in gender/sexuality.
Social Media + Society
Peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present, and future.
Studies in American Culture
Journal publishing articles on film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, the print media, and other aspects of American culture from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
Journal publishing articles on Latin American popular culture: film, television, radio, comic books, photonovelas, etc.
Studies in Popular Culture
Journal publishing articles on various aspects of popular culture: American or international, contemporary or historical.
Transformative Works and Culture
International, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles about transformative works, broadly conceived; articles about media studies; and articles about the fan community (fan fiction, fan vids, film, TV, anime, comic books, fan community, video games, and machinima). Covers a variety of critical approaches including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text content covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, and finance. Offers detailed company information of the world’s largest public and private companies including financials, subsidiaries, products, employees, and industry information. Video content from is also included.
Some 60,000+ articles come up with the search "social media."
Child Development and Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window
A search of phrase "social media" brings up some 800 articles.
Computer Science (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
A search of "social media" brings back some 17,000+ results, with a Subjects limiter showing many social-media sub-topics (including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Microsoft, data security, privacy, etc.).
CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window
Includes reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new window
A search using phrase "social media" brings back some 160 results.
DSM-5 Library This link opens in a new window
A search using the phrase "social media" brings back 5,000+ articles/chapters.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A search of "social media" brings back some 700+ eBooks.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
A search of phrase "social media" brings back some 16,000+ resources.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Search for "Social media" brings back some 15,000+ articles.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
A search for "social media" brings back some 7,000+ results.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text, indexing and abstracts to scholarly, government, and general-interest sources. It covers the connections between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources database includes 2,800+ academic journals that span 60+ disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text for magazines and reference books covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY, and fashion. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps, and flags.
Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to multidisciplinary reference eBooks, including many (some 6,000+) found with the search term "social media."