Tonny Krijnen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3534182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tonny Krijnen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tonny |
| FAMILY NAME | Krijnen |
| SIGNATURE | KRIJNEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5934-6346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Do Not Fight the Swans”: Gender Politics and Moral Norms Across Media
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing body of research focusing on identity politics, public shaming, and social outrage in the contemporary media landscape. Morality is often at the core of these debates. Recent studies show how all media types are rich sources of moral statements, producing an endless stream of moral discourse on all imaginable topics and themes. Yet, how these discourses are shaped in media production and what audiences…
Care recipients, active agers, or lifestyle seekers? A critical framing analysis of the Houniao in Chinese newspapers – 2000–2023
In China, the phenomenon of seasonal aging migrants, known as Houniao, exemplifies the complex interplay between aging, mobility, and home. This study investigates the portrayal of the Houniao phenomenon in Chinese mainstream newspapers, focusing on the framing mechanisms that influence public perceptions and societal responses. Utilizing the WiseNews database, this research employed a Boolean keyword search strategy to collect a total of 621 art…
“Eat the Rich”: Moral Entanglement of Class and Gender in The White Lotus
The White Lotus is renowned for its satirical depiction of wealthy, upper-class individuals. The show deliberately invites its viewers to reflect on a set of moral/ethical questions about ambiguous characters and their behaviors. This study investigates viewers’ responses to this invitation to morally deliberate in relation to class. First, a narrative analysis traces the moral plotlines in Seasons 1 and 2 of The White Lotus . Building on this, t…
Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production
While digital platforms have reconfigured the institutions and practices of cultural production around the globe, current research is dominated by studies that take as their reference point the Anglo-American world--and, to a lesser extent--China (Cunningham & Craig 2019; Kaye et al. 2021; Poell et al. 2021; Zhao 2019). Aside from totalizing theories of platform imperialism (Jin, 2013), the “rest of the world” has thus received relatively scant a…
Vlogging my lives of two homes”: Chinese Houniao and their place-making in the online–offline nexus
This study examines how Chinese older seasonal migrants (Houniao, 候鸟) employ vlogging on Douyin (Chinese TikTok) to create hybrid digital–physical spaces reshaping their mobility experiences. Through qualitative thematic analysis of purposively sampled vlogs ( N = 121) collected over two migration periods, we identify three interconnected themes of digital place-making: identity construction countering decline narratives of aging; community-build…
From the global/local divide to transnational popular culture
“Being pretty does not help your success”: Self-representation and aspiration of China’s female showroom livestreamers
China’s showroom livestreaming is highly gender-segregated, in which young women working as showroom livestreamers are often stigmatized and criticized as hypersexual or vulgar. Situating female streamers’ practices in the sociocultural environment of contemporary China and comparing them to other wanghong creators such as fashion or beauty bloggers in China’s digital economy, we investigate how female streamers construct a particular type of gen…
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance
To mediate the tensions between state regulation and content-creator incentives, Chinese social media platforms have developed an interesting practice of using platform official accounts to communicate their rules to the creator community. These accounts anthropomorphize platforms, enabling platforms to represent their regulatory bodies using fictional human characters or animated figures. The phenomenon of platform anthropomorphization in the Ch…
The logic of formatting: A case study on transnational television production
The transnationalization of television production has been examined by studies on formats and multinational media companies, which have often highlighted the resilience of the local in the global. This article investigates transnationalization on the micro level of television production, drawing on participant observations in a Dutch production company that is partly owned by an American conglomerate. It explores the deep entanglement of the loca…
Contemporary Research on Gender and Media: It’s All Political
Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time’s Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popular media (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series Orange is the New Black ), the increase of datafication and fake news have not only put pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, change and questions in the public debate on gender in general and (the backlash on) gender studies aro…
Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show
The study of popular culture has always been closely related to the study of class, gender, race, and sexuality. An increasing number of authors have called for an intersectional approach. However, the contradictory, fluid meanings articulated in popular culture render such an approach difficult, and many ignore the call for intersectional analysis. We will not. We will try to engage with an intersectional analysis of popular culture, using Shaki…
An Uneasy Return to the Role of Popular Culture
The editorial for the thematic issue of Media and Communication , “From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul’s Drag Race : A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture,” looks at the prevailing themes of earlier studies of popular culture, from Raymond Williams’ organic culture to the postmodern embrace of commodity culture, in relation to the current cultural moment of disruption and unease. The editorial then synthesizes the articles contained in the issue …
Sexuality, gender, media. Identity articulations in the contemporary media landscape
From the Trump administration’s attempts to narrow down the definition of gender to biologically determined sex at birth to the everyday life gendered performances in digital platforms, from increasing representations of LGBTQI+ in TV programmes to the popularity of PornHub, the relations between gender, sexuality and media are ubiquitous and deeply embedded in everyday life. This Special Issue of Information, Communication and Society draws toge…
Through the Black Mirror: Discourses on gender and technology in popular culture
Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making on gender and technology for its audiences. Going beyond ‘gender essentialism’ and ‘technological determinism’, this study …
Everyone Working a Little More Closely Together”: The Transnationalization of Creative Production in TV Production Conglomerates
To survive contemporary developments in the TV industry and as a result of international mergers and acquisitions, production companies often form transnational media corporations. In this article, we examine TV production groups as global-local networks that pursue competitive advantages of transnational integration. Combining a critical industry studies approach with management perspectives, and building on different data sources, this article …
TV genres’ moral value: The moral reflection of segmented TV audiences
This study aims for a deeper understanding of the TV audience's exposure to TV's moral content and the reception of this content through an innovative methodological design. We combine content analysis data on the moral contents of TV genres and survey data on the moral reflection on moral elements offered by these genres among a representative sample of the Dutch TV audience. TV audiences are segmented via latent class analysis into three cluste…
Exploring Visual Aspects of Audience Membership: Media Studies and Photovoice
Photovoice, a qualitative research methodology in which participants use photographs in combination with interviews, transcends the (false) binary between visual and verbal communication as images and words work in tandem to tell participants' stories (Novak, ). While audiences' reception of media has been explored thoroughly, visual interpretations as a key aspect of reception are under‐researched. This neglect of visual aspects is striking, as …
The limitations of localization: A cross-cultural comparative study of Farmer Wants a Wife
Despite globalization, television is still bound to the nation-state in several aspects. The international television industry meets the national in the cross-border exchange of television content. Canned programming can hereby run into cultural barriers, which TV formats presumably can overcome, due to localization. Formats are translated to local versions that presumably suit national culture and identity. In globalization debates, localization…
Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media
The moral imagination in primetime television
In this article, we discuss how primetime programming is unjustly the subject of the moral panic constructed around television, a moral panic that seems primarily useful to maintain the high vs low culture dichotomy. To assess the moral content of primetime television, we used a framework derived from literary culture, since narratives’ content and morality (or, rather, [moral] imagination) are primarily discussed within this tradition. We will a…
The limitations of localization: A cross-cultural comparative study of Farmer Wants a Wife
Despite globalization, television is still bound to the nation-state in several aspects. The international television industry meets the national in the cross-border exchange of television content. Canned programming can hereby run into cultural barriers, which TV formats presumably can overcome, due to localization. Formats are translated to local versions that presumably suit national culture and identity. In globalization debates, localization…
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance
To mediate the tensions between state regulation and content-creator incentives, Chinese social media platforms have developed an interesting practice of using platform official accounts to communicate their rules to the creator community. These accounts anthropomorphize platforms, enabling platforms to represent their regulatory bodies using fictional human characters or animated figures. The phenomenon of platform anthropomorphization in the Ch…
Everyone Working a Little More Closely Together”: The Transnationalization of Creative Production in TV Production Conglomerates
To survive contemporary developments in the TV industry and as a result of international mergers and acquisitions, production companies often form transnational media corporations. In this article, we examine TV production groups as global-local networks that pursue competitive advantages of transnational integration. Combining a critical industry studies approach with management perspectives, and building on different data sources, this article …
TV genres’ moral value: The moral reflection of segmented TV audiences
This study aims for a deeper understanding of the TV audience's exposure to TV's moral content and the reception of this content through an innovative methodological design. We combine content analysis data on the moral contents of TV genres and survey data on the moral reflection on moral elements offered by these genres among a representative sample of the Dutch TV audience. TV audiences are segmented via latent class analysis into three cluste…
The moral imagination in primetime television
In this article, we discuss how primetime programming is unjustly the subject of the moral panic constructed around television, a moral panic that seems primarily useful to maintain the high vs low culture dichotomy. To assess the moral content of primetime television, we used a framework derived from literary culture, since narratives’ content and morality (or, rather, [moral] imagination) are primarily discussed within this tradition. We will a…
Through the Black Mirror: Discourses on gender and technology in popular culture
Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making on gender and technology for its audiences. Going beyond ‘gender essentialism’ and ‘technological determinism’, this study …
The moral imagination in primetime television
In this article, we discuss how primetime programming is unjustly the subject of the moral panic constructed around television, a moral panic that seems primarily useful to maintain the high vs low culture dichotomy. To assess the moral content of primetime television, we used a framework derived from literary culture, since narratives’ content and morality (or, rather, [moral] imagination) are primarily discussed within this tradition. We will a…
Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media
Exploring Visual Aspects of Audience Membership: Media Studies and Photovoice
Photovoice, a qualitative research methodology in which participants use photographs in combination with interviews, transcends the (false) binary between visual and verbal communication as images and words work in tandem to tell participants' stories (Novak, ). While audiences' reception of media has been explored thoroughly, visual interpretations as a key aspect of reception are under‐researched. This neglect of visual aspects is striking, as …
The limitations of localization: A cross-cultural comparative study of Farmer Wants a Wife
Despite globalization, television is still bound to the nation-state in several aspects. The international television industry meets the national in the cross-border exchange of television content. Canned programming can hereby run into cultural barriers, which TV formats presumably can overcome, due to localization. Formats are translated to local versions that presumably suit national culture and identity. In globalization debates, localization…
TV genres’ moral value: The moral reflection of segmented TV audiences
This study aims for a deeper understanding of the TV audience's exposure to TV's moral content and the reception of this content through an innovative methodological design. We combine content analysis data on the moral contents of TV genres and survey data on the moral reflection on moral elements offered by these genres among a representative sample of the Dutch TV audience. TV audiences are segmented via latent class analysis into three cluste…
Everyone Working a Little More Closely Together”: The Transnationalization of Creative Production in TV Production Conglomerates
To survive contemporary developments in the TV industry and as a result of international mergers and acquisitions, production companies often form transnational media corporations. In this article, we examine TV production groups as global-local networks that pursue competitive advantages of transnational integration. Combining a critical industry studies approach with management perspectives, and building on different data sources, this article …
Through the Black Mirror: Discourses on gender and technology in popular culture
Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making on gender and technology for its audiences. Going beyond ‘gender essentialism’ and ‘technological determinism’, this study …
The logic of formatting: A case study on transnational television production
The transnationalization of television production has been examined by studies on formats and multinational media companies, which have often highlighted the resilience of the local in the global. This article investigates transnationalization on the micro level of television production, drawing on participant observations in a Dutch production company that is partly owned by an American conglomerate. It explores the deep entanglement of the loca…
Contemporary Research on Gender and Media: It’s All Political
Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time’s Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popular media (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series Orange is the New Black ), the increase of datafication and fake news have not only put pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, change and questions in the public debate on gender in general and (the backlash on) gender studies aro…
Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show
The study of popular culture has always been closely related to the study of class, gender, race, and sexuality. An increasing number of authors have called for an intersectional approach. However, the contradictory, fluid meanings articulated in popular culture render such an approach difficult, and many ignore the call for intersectional analysis. We will not. We will try to engage with an intersectional analysis of popular culture, using Shaki…
An Uneasy Return to the Role of Popular Culture
The editorial for the thematic issue of Media and Communication , “From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul’s Drag Race : A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture,” looks at the prevailing themes of earlier studies of popular culture, from Raymond Williams’ organic culture to the postmodern embrace of commodity culture, in relation to the current cultural moment of disruption and unease. The editorial then synthesizes the articles contained in the issue …
Sexuality, gender, media. Identity articulations in the contemporary media landscape
From the Trump administration’s attempts to narrow down the definition of gender to biologically determined sex at birth to the everyday life gendered performances in digital platforms, from increasing representations of LGBTQI+ in TV programmes to the popularity of PornHub, the relations between gender, sexuality and media are ubiquitous and deeply embedded in everyday life. This Special Issue of Information, Communication and Society draws toge…
“Being pretty does not help your success”: Self-representation and aspiration of China’s female showroom livestreamers
China’s showroom livestreaming is highly gender-segregated, in which young women working as showroom livestreamers are often stigmatized and criticized as hypersexual or vulgar. Situating female streamers’ practices in the sociocultural environment of contemporary China and comparing them to other wanghong creators such as fashion or beauty bloggers in China’s digital economy, we investigate how female streamers construct a particular type of gen…
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance
To mediate the tensions between state regulation and content-creator incentives, Chinese social media platforms have developed an interesting practice of using platform official accounts to communicate their rules to the creator community. These accounts anthropomorphize platforms, enabling platforms to represent their regulatory bodies using fictional human characters or animated figures. The phenomenon of platform anthropomorphization in the Ch…
Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production
While digital platforms have reconfigured the institutions and practices of cultural production around the globe, current research is dominated by studies that take as their reference point the Anglo-American world--and, to a lesser extent--China (Cunningham & Craig 2019; Kaye et al. 2021; Poell et al. 2021; Zhao 2019). Aside from totalizing theories of platform imperialism (Jin, 2013), the “rest of the world” has thus received relatively scant a…
Vlogging my lives of two homes”: Chinese Houniao and their place-making in the online–offline nexus
This study examines how Chinese older seasonal migrants (Houniao, 候鸟) employ vlogging on Douyin (Chinese TikTok) to create hybrid digital–physical spaces reshaping their mobility experiences. Through qualitative thematic analysis of purposively sampled vlogs ( N = 121) collected over two migration periods, we identify three interconnected themes of digital place-making: identity construction countering decline narratives of aging; community-build…
From the global/local divide to transnational popular culture
“Do Not Fight the Swans”: Gender Politics and Moral Norms Across Media
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing body of research focusing on identity politics, public shaming, and social outrage in the contemporary media landscape. Morality is often at the core of these debates. Recent studies show how all media types are rich sources of moral statements, producing an endless stream of moral discourse on all imaginable topics and themes. Yet, how these discourses are shaped in media production and what audiences…
Care recipients, active agers, or lifestyle seekers? A critical framing analysis of the Houniao in Chinese newspapers – 2000–2023
In China, the phenomenon of seasonal aging migrants, known as Houniao, exemplifies the complex interplay between aging, mobility, and home. This study investigates the portrayal of the Houniao phenomenon in Chinese mainstream newspapers, focusing on the framing mechanisms that influence public perceptions and societal responses. Utilizing the WiseNews database, this research employed a Boolean keyword search strategy to collect a total of 621 art…
“Eat the Rich”: Moral Entanglement of Class and Gender in The White Lotus
The White Lotus is renowned for its satirical depiction of wealthy, upper-class individuals. The show deliberately invites its viewers to reflect on a set of moral/ethical questions about ambiguous characters and their behaviors. This study investigates viewers’ responses to this invitation to morally deliberate in relation to class. First, a narrative analysis traces the moral plotlines in Seasons 1 and 2 of The White Lotus . Building on this, t…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works)