Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn

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Empowering women for sustainable tourism: Evidence from Xijiang Miao village using PLS-SEM analysis	138
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	85
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	76
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	43
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	42
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	38
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	37
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	36
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	35
Testing creativity: Towards a processual understanding of GenAI image-making tasks	32
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	27
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	26
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	25
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	22
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	21
Book Review: Inequalities in Platform Publishing ParnellClaire. Inequalities in Platform Publishing . Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press. 2	19
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	19
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts: A thematic coding and regression model of K-pop communities under China’s Korean Wave Ban (2016–2017)’	19
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	19
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	18
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	18
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	18
Research on optimization of online education effectiveness system based on Louvain algorithm	18
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	18

The little square of agonies: Avatar aesthetics, protest masculinity and incel ‘neo-reality’	18
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	17
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	17
Virtual production at model scale: A case-study of virtual production R&D in Aardman Animations	16
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	15
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	15
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	15
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	14
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	14
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	14
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	14
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	13
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	13
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	13
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	13
Pluralising critical technical practice	13
Performing the self: Social identity construction by blind and visually impaired YouTube vloggers	13
Before code, beyond screen: Media archeology and convergence friction in early VR art (1993–1995)	12
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	12
Remix, labour, and visibility: Fashion memes as participatory visual culture on platform media	12
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	11
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	11
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	11
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	11
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	11
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	11
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	11
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	11
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	11
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	11
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	11
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	10
Developing an industrial workflow for virtual production filmmaking	10
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	10
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	10
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	10
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	10
Glanceability and voyeuristic distance: How designing for brief interaction shapes engagement with the Apple Watch Activity Rings	10
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	10
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Algorithmic embodiment and the posthuman condition: Reframing human autonomy in N. Katherine Hayles’ media culture theory	10
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	10
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	10
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	10
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	9
Videogame spatial cinematics: A theoretical framework for cinematic architecture of videogame spaces	9
Scenophony: An undisciplinary approach to the design of immersive sound storytelling	9
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	9

Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	9
Public service media and sport in the age of platforms: The cases of Flanders, South Africa and the United Kingdom	9
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	9
A note from the editors	9
Role and perceptions of AI in science journalists’ work: Comparison between Brazil, India and UK	9
Reconfiguring the global–local nexus: A comparative analysis of Netflix and theatrical film diversity in South Korea	9
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9
Digital detox: How digital well-being application ‘Forest’ helps users improve digital health in China	8
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	8
Virtual production for the micro: Investigating obstacles and tailoring workflows for small UK production studios	8
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	8
A media-materialist method for interpreting generative AI images	8
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	8
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	8
The ambivalences of digital disconnection for life coaches: Navigating discrete and performative disconnecting in the creator economy	8
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	8
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	7
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	7
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	7
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	7
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	7
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
From critique to hope: Infrawalking, defamiliarisation, transgressive infrastructuring and utopian engineering	7
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	7
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	7
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	7
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	7
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	7
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	7
Expressing (distorted) dissent against the Party-state out of internalised racism on X	6
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	6
‘Beating tech with tech’: The use of apps and technological measures for digital disconnection	6
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	6
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	6
Simulating desert power: Dune games, real-time strategy, and the postcolonial legacies of Lynch’s Dune	6
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	6
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	6
Introduction	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
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	6
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	6
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	6
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	6
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	6
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	6
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations	6
Creepy or curious? Exploring accidental interactions between people and digital voice assistants	6
‘This might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat…’ – Knowledge workers’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in group-based communicative AI	6
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	6
Countering digital labor platforms’ algorithmic management: OnlyFans and the emergence of neo-patronage	5
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	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
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen: Bon Appetit and digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	5
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	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
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	5
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	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
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	5
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	5
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	5
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	5
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	5
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	4
New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom	4
Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation	4
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture	4
Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models	4
Creanalytics : Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice	4
The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces	4
Collecting streaming services	4
Book review: The private is political: Networked privacy and social media by Alice Marwick	4
Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	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
Participatory conspiracy culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit	4
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	4
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	4
The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big-data reconfiguration of the audience	4
Content creators’ hopes and fears about artificial intelligence	4
Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes	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
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
Playful green utopias: Analysing solarpunk imaginaries in independent video games	4
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	4
A note from the editors	4
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	4
From empathy machine to mimetic sympoiesis: Reimagining virtual reality toward regenerative media	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
Playing with persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media	4
The narrativization of ludic elements in videogame fanfiction	4
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants	4
Digital Queers’ cyberutopia after the end of history	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
Behind-the-scenes of the parliament: Influencer genres and political authenticity on Swedish politicians’ YouTube channels	4
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community	4
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	4
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	4
Machinic agency and datafication: Labour and value after anthropocentrism	4
Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility	3
Sustainability of Facebook-radio convergence for content distribution in Nigeria: Computational content and stakeholders’ perspectives analyses	3
Band of blood brothers: Exploring visibility management and networking among Twitter users identifying as Filipino men living with HIV	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
The participatory politics and play of canceling an idol: Exploring how fans negotiate their fandom of a canceled ‘fave’	3
Premiers to pixels: The discourse of cinema envy in 1990s videogame magazines	3
Book Review: The Modem World. A Prehistory of Social Media	3
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces: Oliver-ssaem’s strategic identity-distancing for visibility on YouTube	3
‘Azadi’s political until you’re pressing play’: Capitalist realism, hip-hop, and platform affordances	3
RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online	3
Google Arts & Culture and the platformization of cultural heritage: Convergence, gamification, and shifting positions of institutional partners	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
VR/AR artworks in the museum: Redefining preservation through collaboration	3
Technology acceptance, moral panic, and perceived ease of use: Negotiating ChatGPT at research one universities	3
‘The road to the metaverse is not a straight one’: Social representations of virtual reality in the news media	3
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes	3
QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking	3
The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries	3
From movie-style marketing to business as usual: The use of cinema(tic) in games promotion 1990-1999	3
The taste of video: Facebook videos as multi-sensory experiences	3
To Convince, to Provoke or to Entertain? A Study on Individual Motivations behind Engaging with Conspiracy Theories Online	3
More real, or just more surveillance? Panopticism and shifting authenticity paradigms in BeReal	3
Artificial creativity and agency negotiation: Understanding AI-generated visual art from artistic practitioners’ perceptions	3
Invisible, aesthetic, and enrolled listeners across storytelling modalities: Immersive preference as situated player type	3
Digital media and the banalization of deception	3
Digital pedagogies post-COVID-19: The future of teaching with/in new technologies	3
Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil	3
‘Grandma, tell that story about how to make napalm again’: Exploring early adopters’ collaborative domestication of generative AI	3
Domesticating algorithms through data reflectivity and user reflexivity: The metaphor of Yanghao on Xiaohongshu (RED)	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
Pictures from the Atomic Force Microscope: Temporal Representation in the Moving Image	3
Narrative virtual reality as a memory machine	3
The category is #gaymer: A multi-method approach for understanding the queer player experience	3
‘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	3
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder	3
Cybermania ’94: Game awards before the game awards	3
Recalcitrant audiencing: Between analytics and creative practice in the film industry	3
Understanding TV audiences in the multiplatform era: How televisual viewing modes shape content popularity	2
Mapping an online production network: The field of ‘actual play’ media	2
We love to hate George Soros: A cross-platform analysis of the Globalism conspiracy theory campaign in Brazil	2
Streaming Diversité : Exploring representations within French-language scripted series on Canadian SVOD services	2
Book Review: To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms	2
Achieving agency within imperfect automation: Working customers and self-service technologies	2
Horror to humour: The affective transformation of the moment of death in Little Nightmares	2
The (in)visibility of diversity on streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails	2
Semantic variation and translation issues in positively evaluative Korean homographs	2
Ambivalent visibilities : Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth	2
Digital resource abundance: How social media shapes success and failure of online mobilisation	2
‘People tell me quite intimate things’: The circulation of feelings and vague intimacy on politicised Instagram	2
Reproduce and adapt: Homestuck in print and digital (Re)Incarnations	2
Loved everywhere?: Netflix’s top 10 and the popularity of geographically diverse content	2
Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources	2
WeChat users’ debunking strategies in response to COVID-19 conspiracy theories: A mixed-methods study	2
Black summer on TikTok and ABC news: Shaping cultural identity during an Australian bushfire crisis	2
(De)constructing machines as critical technical practice	2
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence	2
Paradoxical intimacy between virtual idols and fans in South Korea: A case study of PLAVE and PLLI	2
Shades of digital deception: Self-presentation among men seeking men on locative dating apps	2
A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis	2
Livestreaming a doitocracy: Platform-jumping participatory practices in modular synthesis gear cultures	2
Deathlogging: GoPros as forensic media in accidental sporting deaths	2
‘Definitely not in the business of wanting to be associated’: Examining public relations in a deplatformization controversy	2
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization	2
Engender(ing) immigrant space: A praxis through collaborative storytelling and interactive documentary	2
The enduring schism between culture and technique: Historical (dis)continuities between the Daguerreotype and Generative AI	2
We can do it, can we? Women’s experiences in the Czech video game industry and their coping strategies for ambivalent sexism	2