This special issue on Communicating Motherhood/Mothers Communicating in Popular Culture and Social Media features eleven articles, eleven book reviews,and a special poetry folio featuring the work of Kirun Kapur.

Articles include: •Mommy bloggers as rebels and community builders •Mediating motherhood and celebrity in popular media •Mommy blogging and deliberative dialogical ethics •Imag(in)ing motherood on Pinterest •Body fantasies and their protective function •Women, health, agency and maternity in the film, What to Expect When You’re Expecting •Birth stories as performance and counter performance across dueling media platforms •A qualitative analysis of motherhood in advertising •and many more!