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Meme-ing while the world burns: Climate change news on Reddit and the cultural politics of platform participation (2025)
Journal Article
Litherland, B., & Wood, R. (in press). Meme-ing while the world burns: Climate change news on Reddit and the cultural politics of platform participation. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13675494251356427. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251356427

This article makes a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Research that applies a classically cultural studies ‘bottom-up’ approach to stu... Read More about Meme-ing while the world burns: Climate change news on Reddit and the cultural politics of platform participation.

A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers (2025)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2025). A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers. Social Media + Society, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251323028

How do Instagram sustainability influencers communicate criticisms of consumer culture, and try to promote more sustainable alternatives, in the context of a platform and industry that seeks to promote consumption by design? Drawing on an ethnography... Read More about A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers.

Roundtable discussion (2024)
Journal Article
Hakim, J., Kanai, A., Redmond, S., Winch, A., & Wood, R. (2025). Roundtable discussion. Journal of Gender Studies, 34(6), 866-875. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2356923

For over three decades now Rosalind Gill has played a critical role in steering the direction of feminist media studies. Her scholarship provides a powerful overview of what it has been like for women (and others) to engage with, work in and be repre... Read More about Roundtable discussion.

The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section (2023)
Journal Article
Wood, R., & McCann, H. (in press). The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2023.2276792

The collection of papers we have put together for this special themed section originally emerged from a desire to explore how the rapid and wholescale transformation of everyday spaces brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic might change, challenge an... Read More about The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section.

From aesthetic labour to affective labour: feminine beauty and body work as self-care in UK 'lockdown' (2023)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2024). From aesthetic labour to affective labour: feminine beauty and body work as self-care in UK 'lockdown'. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2023.2192892

This paper draws on qualitative survey and interview data with 72 participants focusing on feminine body and beauty work practices in the UK’s first Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ in 2020. The data suggest that the affective dimensions of beauty were intensifie... Read More about From aesthetic labour to affective labour: feminine beauty and body work as self-care in UK 'lockdown'.

‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube (2020)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2021). ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube. New Media and Society, 23(9), 2754--2772. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820939446

<jats:p> This article is based on an analysis of ‘anti-haul’ videos on YouTube, where a vlogger explains which beauty products they plan not to buy. Anti-haul vloggers have much in common with ‘culture jamming’ movements, which use the communicative... Read More about ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube.

Consumer Sexualities Women and Sex Shopping (2017)
Book
Wood, R. (2017). Consumer Sexualities Women and Sex Shopping. Routledge.

This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer ‘technologies of the self’ to work upon and understand themselves as confident and active sexual agents in postfeminist neoliberal culture.