SAGE Publications Ltd: Convergence: Table of Contents Table of Contents for Convergence. List of articles from both the latest and ahead of print issues.
- “Call it a CULT.”: r/NoNewNormal and the expression of identity politics in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
by Ian Zapcic1College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA on May 20, 2026 at 6:13 amConvergence, Ahead of Print. <br/>Identity politics is the process by which status-based or social identity groups engage in activism on their own behalf. When these activist groups establish themselves as “true” people aligned against elite or hegemonic social structures, they have been ...
- The anxiety of age: Moral panics over children’s social media use as a tool to regulateby Justine Humphry, Catherine Page Jeffery, Jonathon Hutchinson1Discipline of Media and Communications, 4334University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia on May 19, 2026 at 9:58 am
Convergence, Ahead of Print. <br/>Throughout 2023 and 2024, in the lead up to the introduction of Australia’s social media age-restriction laws, calls to ban teenagers’ access to social media were widely reported by Australian news media. This media moment was in part driven by moves by ...
- The Futures Glossary: An experiment in utopic pedagogyby Steven Logan, Kate Maddalena171637University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada on May 19, 2026 at 6:59 am
Convergence, Ahead of Print. <br/>In this essay, we describe a project that asks students to edit and contribute to a collaborative “Futures Glossary” across two undergraduate media studies courses about the future and futurisms. Both courses focus on critique and critical creative ...
- From influencers to market accounts: Dehumanisation and rehumanisation in algorithmic creativityby Meng Liang1Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 16, 2026 at 4:00 am
Convergence, Ahead of Print. <br/>This article examines marketing accounts (营销号)—a form of depersonalised, high-volume content production that has become structurally central to China’s short-video economy yet remains undertheorised in existing scholarship. Operating through algorithmic ...
- Perceptions of online privacy among justice-involved womenby Hyunjin Seo1William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications,University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA on May 16, 2026 at 3:55 am
Convergence, Ahead of Print. <br/>This study employs a modified photovoice approach to explore justice-involved women’s understandings of online privacy, challenges they face in protecting themselves online, and practical strategies they use to navigate these issues. A total 48 women ...