Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn

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You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	117
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	74
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	66
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	37
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	35
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	32
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	30
Empowering women for sustainable tourism: Evidence from Xijiang Miao village using PLS-SEM analysis	29
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	28
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	27
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	24
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	24
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	23
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	23
What’s behind that screenshot? Digital windows and capturing data on screen	22
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts: A thematic coding and regression model of K-pop communities under China’s Korean Wave Ban (2016–2017)’	21
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	19
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	19
Book Review: Inequalities in Platform Publishing ParnellClaire. Inequalities in Platform Publishing . Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press. 2	19
Book Review: Review of Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym	18
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	18
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	18
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	18
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	18
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	17

Virtual production at model scale: A case-study of virtual production R&D in Aardman Animations	16
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	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
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	15
Pluralising critical technical practice	15
Research on optimization of online education effectiveness system based on Louvain algorithm	15
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	15
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	15
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	15
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	15
Book Review: The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era Chua, Emily HC, The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-S	14
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	14
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	13
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	13
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	13
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	13
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	13
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	13
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	13
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	13
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	13
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	12
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	12
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	12
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	12
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	12
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	11
Algorithmic embodiment and the posthuman condition: Reframing human autonomy in N. Katherine Hayles’ media culture theory	11
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	11
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	11
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	10
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	10
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	10
Reconfiguring the global–local nexus: A comparative analysis of Netflix and theatrical film diversity in South Korea	10
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	10
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	10
Scenophony: An undisciplinary approach to the design of immersive sound storytelling	10
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	9
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
A note from the editors	9
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	9
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	9
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	9
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	9
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	9
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	9
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	9

Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	9
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	9
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	9
Role and perceptions of AI in science journalists’ work: Comparison between Brazil, India and UK	8
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	8
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	8
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	8
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	8
Embodied parallelism and immersion in virtual reality gaming	8
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	8
Visualization as infrastructure: China’s data visualization politics during COVID-19 and their implications for public health emergencies	8
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	8
Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	8
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	8
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	8
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	8
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	8
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	8
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	8
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	7
Simulating desert power: Dune games, real-time strategy, and the postcolonial legacies of Lynch’s Dune	7
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	7
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	7
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	7
‘Beating tech with tech’: The use of apps and technological measures for digital disconnection	7
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	7
The epitome of reprehensible individualism: The Dutch response to the Walkman, 1980–1995	7
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	7
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.	7
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	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
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	7
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	7
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	7
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	7
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	7
Introduction	6
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	6
‘This might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat…’ – Knowledge workers’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in group-based communicative AI	6
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	6
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	6
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	6
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	6
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	6
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen:Bon Appetitand digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	6
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	5
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	5
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	5
Book review: Algorithms of resistance Bonini T and Treré E (2024)  Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 25	5
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	5
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	5
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	5
The politics of data visualisation and policy making	5
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	5
Countering digital labor platforms’ algorithmic management: OnlyFans and the emergence of neo-patronage	5
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	5
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	5
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	5
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
A note from the editors	5
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community	4
The material politics of mobile virtual reality: Oculus, data, and the technics of sensemaking	4
Machinic agency and datafication: Labour and value after anthropocentrism	4
Book review: The private is political: Networked privacy and social media by Alice Marwick	4
‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages	4
Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice	4
Invisible, aesthetic, and enrolled listeners across storytelling modalities: Immersive preference as situated player type	4
Pictures from the Atomic Force Microscope: Temporal Representation in the Moving Image	4
The ethical dilemma of modding digital games: A literature review of the creation and distribution of mods	4
The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces	4
If you’re reading this, it’s meant for you: The reflexive ambivalence of algorithmic conspirituality	4
Behind-the-scenes of the parliament: Influencer genres and political authenticity on Swedish politicians’ YouTube channels	4
Participatory conspiracy culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit	4

Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	4
Post-social media: de-platformed users’ challenges to belong in ‘corpo-civic’ spaces	4
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	4
The narrativization of ludic elements in videogame fanfiction	4
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder	4
Transforming the Doctoral Defence: Remote-Access Technologies and Social Space	4
Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes	4
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants	4
Collecting streaming services	4
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	4
The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big-data reconfiguration of the audience	4
The techno-cultural imaginaries of virtual reality in China: A historical perspective	4
‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body	4
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	4
Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models	4
RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online	4
‘Azadi’s political until you’re pressing play’: Capitalist realism, hip-hop, and platform affordances	4
Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation	4
Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation	4
New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom	4
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies	4
The category is #gaymer: A multi-method approach for understanding the queer player experience	3
Domesticating algorithms through data reflectivity and user reflexivity: The metaphor of Yanghao on Xiaohongshu (RED)	3
Negotiating digital visibility in Asia: Rethinking conceptual frameworks through (g)local communities and practices	3
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces: Oliver-ssaem’s strategic identity-distancing for visibility on YouTube	3
Of tubes and telegrams: The names of social media platforms and messenger services	3
Narrative virtual reality as a memory machine	3
Nextdoor v. the community network literature: Do Nextdoor’s uses match the potential envisioned for ComNets	3
Premiers to pixels: The discourse of cinema envy in 1990s videogame magazines	3
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization	3
Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China	3
Troubling games: Materials, histories, and speculative future worlds for games pedagogy	3
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture	3
‘The road to the metaverse is not a straight one’: Social representations of virtual reality in the news media	3
WeChat users’ debunking strategies in response to COVID-19 conspiracy theories: A mixed-methods study	3
Cybermania ’94: Game awards before the game awards	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
Playing with persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media	3
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes	3
Virtual nexus: Female players’ emotional attachment in a role-playing video game	3
Data as capital and ethical implications in digital sport business models	3
Digital pedagogies post-COVID-19: The future of teaching with/in new technologies	3
Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life	3
The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries	3
Technology acceptance, moral panic, and perceived ease of use: Negotiating ChatGPT at research one universities	3
From movie-style marketing to business as usual: The use of cinema(tic) in games promotion 1990-1999	3
Rage against the empathy machine revisited: The ethics of empathy-related affordances of virtual reality	3
To Convince, to Provoke or to Entertain? A Study on Individual Motivations behind Engaging with Conspiracy Theories Online	3
QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking	3
Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil	3
Exploring users’ algorithmic knowledge and reflexivity in a music streaming context: A critical realist approach	3
Critical data studies meets discard studies: Waste data reflectivity in digital urban waste tracking system	3
Recalcitrant audiencing: Between analytics and creative practice in the film industry	3
Content creators’ hopes and fears about artificial intelligence	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
The taste of video: Facebook videos as multi-sensory experiences	3
Infinite media: The contemporary infinite paradigm in media	3
Spanish Twitch streamers: Personal influence in a broadcast model akin to television	3
Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility	3
Memes, gatekeepers, and the dynamics of viral K-pop diffusion on YouTube: Analyzing user engagement and network structures	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
‘Grandma, tell that story about how to make napalm again’: Exploring early adopters’ collaborative domestication of generative AI	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: The Modem World. A Prehistory of Social Media	3
The participatory politics and play of canceling an idol: Exploring how fans negotiate their fandom of a canceled ‘fave’	3
More real, or just more surveillance? Panopticism and shifting authenticity paradigms in BeReal	3
What’s the problem with “screen time”? A content analysis of dominant voices and worries in three years of national print media	3
Horror to humour: The affective transformation of the moment of death in Little Nightmares	3
Digital media and the banalization of deception	3
VR/AR artworks in the museum: Redefining preservation through collaboration	3
Mapping an online production network: The field of ‘actual play’ media	2
‘People tell me quite intimate things’: The circulation of feelings and vague intimacy on politicised Instagram	2
Establishing networked misogyny as a counter movement: The analysis of the online anti-Istanbul convention presence	2
Platform policy and online abuse: Understanding differential protections for public figures	2
Analysing podcast intimacy: Four parameters	2
Workers’ right to the subject: The social relations of data production	2
Reassembling #MeToo: Tracing the techno-affective agency of the feminist Instagram influencer	2
Technoliberalism and the Complementary Relationships between Humanitarian, Conservation, and Entrepreneurial Dronework in Indonesia	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
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence	2
Beyond age marginalization: Understanding the success of older influencers on Douyin	2
The politics of constructing television audiences: Diversity, equality and inclusion in Swedish media policy	2
Race/ethnicity, online information and COVID-19 vaccination: Study of minority immigrants’ internet use for health-related information	2
Algorithmic experiences of Netflix’s users in the Arab world: Implications for agency and social practice	2
The digitally manipulated family photograph: MyHeritage’s ‘Deep Nostalgia’, and the extended temporality of the photographic image	2
Achieving agency within imperfect automation: Working customers and self-service technologies	2
Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources	2
From glows to graphics: The invention of visuality in early electronic media systems	2
Generative AI in the screen and live performance industries: A conceptual framework and prospects for future research	2
Delivery riders’ cultural production in Spain: A thematic analysis of their self-representation on YouTube	2
Characteristics of invention development during the hackathon	2
Making immersive storytelling accessible: Interactive low-tech implementation in elementary school civic learning	2
‘This app can help you change your voice’: Authenticity and authority in mobile applications for transgender voice training	2