Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn

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Public Service Media in Ireland following reunification? Comparative approaches and critical questions	90
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	79
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	47
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	41
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	40
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet Dame-GriffAvery, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet, New York: New York University Press, 2023. ISBN: 97	38
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	37
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	33
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	28
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	27
Empowering women for sustainable tourism: Evidence from Xijiang Miao village using PLS-SEM analysis	26
Testing creativity: Towards a processual understanding of GenAI image-making tasks	24
Book Review: From pessimism to promise: Lessons from the Global South on designing inclusive tech Payal Arora (2024) From pessimism to promise: Lessons from the Global South on	23
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	21
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	20
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	20
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	19
Virtual production at model scale: A case-study of virtual production R&D in Aardman Animations	19
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	19
The little square of agonies: Avatar aesthetics, protest masculinity and incel ‘neo-reality’	18
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	18
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts: A thematic coding and regression model of K-pop communities under China’s Korean Wave Ban (2016–2017)’	18
Book Review: Inequalities in Platform Publishing ParnellClaire. Inequalities in Platform Publishing . Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press. 2	18
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	17
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	17

Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	16
Research on optimization of online education effectiveness system based on Louvain algorithm	16
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	15
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	15
“Call it a CULT.”: r/NoNewNormal and the expression of identity politics in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	15
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	15
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	14
Before code, beyond screen: Media archeology and convergence friction in early VR art (1993–1995)	13
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	13
Performing the self: Social identity construction by blind and visually impaired YouTube vloggers	13
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	13
Remix, labour, and visibility: Fashion memes as participatory visual culture on platform media	13
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	13
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	12
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	12
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	12
Book Review: The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era Chua, Emily HC, The Currency of Truth: Newsmakin	12
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	12
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	11
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	11
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	11
Pluralising critical technical practice	11
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	11
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	11
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	11
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	11
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	11
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	11
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	11
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	10
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	10
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	10
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	10
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	10
‘The behind-the-scenes we were never supposed to see’: Resisting, reframing, and reinforcing incarceration stigmas on Prison TikTok	10
Algorithmic embodiment and the posthuman condition: Reframing human autonomy in N. Katherine Hayles’ media culture theory	10
Developing an industrial workflow for virtual production filmmaking	10
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	10
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	9
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	9
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	9
Reconfiguring the global–local nexus: A comparative analysis of Netflix and theatrical film diversity in South Korea	9
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	9
Scenophony: An undisciplinary approach to the design of immersive sound storytelling	9
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	9
Glanceability and voyeuristic distance: How designing for brief interaction shapes engagement with the Apple Watch Activity Rings	9
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	9

Public service media and sport in the age of platforms: The cases of Flanders, South Africa and the United Kingdom	9
A note from the editors	9
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	9
Videogame spatial cinematics: A theoretical framework for cinematic architecture of videogame spaces	8
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	8
Role and perceptions of AI in science journalists’ work: Comparison between Brazil, India and UK	8
A media-materialist method for interpreting generative AI images	8
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	8
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	8
The ambivalences of digital disconnection for life coaches: Navigating discrete and performative disconnecting in the creator economy	8
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	8
Digital detox: How digital well-being application ‘Forest’ helps users improve digital health in China	8
Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	7
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	7
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	7
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	7
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
Virtual production for the micro: Investigating obstacles and tailoring workflows for small UK production studios	7
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	7
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	7
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	7
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	7
When that light hits the LED sky: Selling virtual production in The Batman (2022) and beyond	6
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	6
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	6
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	6
‘Beating tech with tech’: The use of apps and technological measures for digital disconnection	6
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	6
From institutions to influencers: Negotiating holocaust memory in the algorithmic age	6
Introduction	6
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	6
Book Review: Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China WallisCara. Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China. New	6
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	6
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	6
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	6
From critique to hope: Infrawalking, defamiliarisation, transgressive infrastructuring and utopian engineering	6
The Smell of Roses: Affordances in shitposts as a site of study	6
Expressing (distorted) dissent against the Party-state out of internalised racism on X	6
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	6
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	6
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	6
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	6
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	6
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations	5
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	5
Book review: Algorithms of resistance Bonini T and Treré E (2024)  Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power . Cambridge, MA: T	5
Countering digital labor platforms’ algorithmic management: OnlyFans and the emergence of neo-patronage	5
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	5
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	5
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	5
‘This might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat…’ – Knowledge workers’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in group-based communicative AI	5
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	5
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	5
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	5
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen: Bon Appetit and digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	5
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	5
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	5
Creepy or curious? Exploring accidental interactions between people and digital voice assistants	5
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	5
Book review: Media ruins: Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology JackMargaret, Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology.	5
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	5
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	5
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	5
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	5
Simulating desert power: Dune games, real-time strategy, and the postcolonial legacies of Lynch’s Dune	5
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	5
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	4
‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages	4
Window-shopping the far-right: A comparative study of alt-tech social media homepages	4
The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces	4
New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom	4
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants	4
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	4
Behind-the-scenes of the parliament: Influencer genres and political authenticity on Swedish politicians’ YouTube channels	4
Post-social media: de-platformed users’ challenges to belong in ‘corpo-civic’ spaces	4

The techno-cultural imaginaries of virtual reality in China: A historical perspective	4
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	4
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	4
Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	4
Machinic agency and datafication: Labour and value after anthropocentrism	4
Book Review: Music Streaming Around the World HesmondhalghD., ed. Music Streaming Around the World. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. 270 pp. ISBN 9780520409057 (paperback); ISBN 9780	4
The narrativization of ludic elements in videogame fanfiction	4
If you’re reading this, it’s meant for you: The reflexive ambivalence of algorithmic conspirituality	4
‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body	4
Creanalytics : Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice	4
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	4
Participatory conspiracy culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit	4
From empathy machine to mimetic sympoiesis: Reimagining virtual reality toward regenerative media	4
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	4
Book review: The private is political: Networked privacy and social media by Alice Marwick	4
Playful green utopias: Analysing solarpunk imaginaries in independent video games	4
Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models	4
Digital Queers’ cyberutopia after the end of history	4
The ethical dilemma of modding digital games: A literature review of the creation and distribution of mods	4
Salad Fingers : Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation	4
A note from the editors	4
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	4
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community	4
Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes	4
The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big-data reconfiguration of the audience	4
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	4
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	4
QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking	3
Book Review: Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media Robert WGehl. Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle	3
The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries	3
Content creators’ hopes and fears about artificial intelligence	3
To Convince, to Provoke or to Entertain? A Study on Individual Motivations behind Engaging with Conspiracy Theories Online	3
Pictures from the Atomic Force Microscope: Temporal Representation in the Moving Image	3
The taste of video: Facebook videos as multi-sensory experiences	3
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture	3
Artificial creativity and agency negotiation: Understanding AI-generated visual art from artistic practitioners’ perceptions	3
‘Azadi’s political until you’re pressing play’: Capitalist realism, hip-hop, and platform affordances	3
Book Review: Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies by Elisabetta Ferrari FerrariE (2024) Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginar	3
Digital pedagogies post-COVID-19: The future of teaching with/in new technologies	3
Book Review: From Narcissus's Pool to the Metaverse PinottiA. (2025). At the Threshold of the Image: From Narcissus's Pool to the Metaverse. (1st ed.). Zone Books. 282 pp. ISBN 9781945861024	3
Domesticating algorithms through data reflectivity and user reflexivity: The metaphor of Yanghao on Xiaohongshu (RED)	3
Creative signatures and systemic bias: A critical analysis of platform affordances in generative diffusion models	3
Book Review: The Modem World. A Prehistory of Social Media	3
RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online	3
From movie-style marketing to business as usual: The use of cinema(tic) in games promotion 1990-1999	3
Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation	3
Google Arts & Culture and the platformization of cultural heritage: Convergence, gamification, and shifting positions of institutional partners	3
More real, or just more surveillance? Panopticism and shifting authenticity paradigms in BeReal	3
Collecting streaming services	3
Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility	3
Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil	3
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes	3
Narrative virtual reality as a memory machine	3
The category is #gaymer: A multi-method approach for understanding the queer player experience	3
Digital media and the banalization of deception	3
Premiers to pixels: The discourse of cinema envy in 1990s videogame magazines	3
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder	3
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces: Oliver-ssaem’s strategic identity-distancing for visibility on YouTube	3
Recalcitrant audiencing: Between analytics and creative practice in the film industry	3
Cybermania ’94: Game awards before the game awards	3
Playing with persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media	3
VR/AR artworks in the museum: Redefining preservation through collaboration	3
Invisible, aesthetic, and enrolled listeners across storytelling modalities: Immersive preference as situated player type	3
The participatory politics and play of canceling an idol: Exploring how fans negotiate their fandom of a canceled ‘fave’	3
(De)constructing machines as critical technical practice	2
Memetic memory as vital conduits of troublemakers in digital culture	2
Streaming classical concerts: Overview on research and practice	2
‘The road to the metaverse is not a straight one’: Social representations of virtual reality in the news media	2
Horror to humour: The affective transformation of the moment of death in Little Nightmares	2
‘I produce songs for her …. In this way, I gradually know her more. The more I know her, the more I like her’: Using Collins’ model of interactive ritual chains to study the case of virtual idol fando	2
Recycling as ‘IP extractivism’ in the age of platformization: A comparative analysis of Netflix, Amazon Prime video, and Disney+	2
Spanish Twitch streamers: Personal influence in a broadcast model akin to television	2
Ambivalent visibilities : Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth	2
Understanding TV audiences in the multiplatform era: How televisual viewing modes shape content popularity	2
Interfering with the black-box-tradeoff model: Gephisto, a one-click Gephi for critical technical practice	2
A framework of transmediation	2
Livestreaming a doitocracy: Platform-jumping participatory practices in modular synthesis gear cultures	2
Engender(ing) immigrant space: A praxis through collaborative storytelling and interactive documentary	2
Critical data studies meets discard studies: Waste data reflectivity in digital urban waste tracking system	2
Band of blood brothers: Exploring visibility management and networking among Twitter users identifying as Filipino men living with HIV	2
The anxiety of age: Moral panics over children’s social media use as a tool to regulate	2
Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life	2
Loved everywhere?: Netflix’s top 10 and the popularity of geographically diverse content	2
Streaming Diversité : Exploring representations within French-language scripted series on Canadian SVOD services	2
‘People tell me quite intimate things’: The circulation of feelings and vague intimacy on politicised Instagram	2
The (in)visibility of diversity on streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails	2
Negotiating issue visibility in the diaspora: A study of political discussion within Jianzhong Quan on X , 2014-2023	2
Adapting global methodologies to digital inequalities research in a multicultural Arab environment	2
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization	2
Technology acceptance, moral panic, and perceived ease of use: Negotiating ChatGPT at research one universities	2
Infinite media: The contemporary infinite paradigm in media	2
Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources	2
Of tubes and telegrams: The names of social media platforms and messenger services	2
Achieving agency within imperfect automation: Working customers and self-service technologies	2
The quantification of diversity: Netflix, visibility politics and the grammar of transnationalism	2