New Media & Society

Article	Citations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform	161
Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance	119
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review	104
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19	97
A systematic literature review on disinformation: Toward a unified taxonomical framework	93
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified	78
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation	75
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence	69
Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany	69
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review	67
Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit	64
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited	63
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective	58
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak	57
The limits of the imaginary: Challenges to intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithms	56
Temporal arbitrage, fragmented rush, and opportunistic behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy	56
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective	52
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors	51
Oculus imaginaries: The promises and perils of Facebook’s virtual reality	51
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries	48
Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument	45
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness	43
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	42
Digital well-being theory and research	41
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social media	40

Mediated trust: A theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators	40
Social media literacy: A conceptual framework	39
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media	39
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’	38
Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem	36
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia	36
Health-related fake news on social media platforms: A systematic literature review	35
Content moderation: Social media’s sexist assemblages	35
The challenges of studying 4chan and the Alt-Right: ‘Come on in the water’s fine’	33
A question of perspective: Exploring audiences’ views of journalistic boundaries	32
From archive cultures to ephemeral content, and back: Studying Instagram Stories with digital methods	32
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review	32
In(cel)doctrination: How technologically facilitated misogyny moves violence off screens and on to streets	32
Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network	32
Facebook futures: Mark Zuckerberg’s discursive construction of a better world	32
From observation on social media to offline political participation: The social media affordances approach	31
“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries	31
‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey	30
Participatory branding on social media: The affordances of live streaming for creative labor	30
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research	30
Perceptions of mis- or disinformation exposure predict political cynicism: Evidence from a two-wave survey during the 2018 US midterm elections	30
Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms	29
Metaphors in moderation	29
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities	29
‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab	28
A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages	28
Social media, rituals, and long-distance family relationship maintenance: A mixed-methods systematic review	28
Engagement with candidate posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the 2019 election	28
Filtering feminisms: Emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram	27
Enhanced self-regulation: The case of Facebook’s content governance	27
Recovering critique in an age of datafication	27
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States	27
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships	27
Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship	27
Witnessing Eva Stories: Media witnessing and self-inscription in social media memory	26
The right-time web: Theorizing the kairologic of algorithmic media	26
Incidental news exposure via social media and political participation: Evidence of reciprocal effects	26
Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation	26
Gender moderation and moderating gender: Sexual content policies in Twitch’s community guidelines	26
Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter	26
Data and oil: Metaphor, materiality and metabolic rifts	25
Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users’ feelings for out-group parties	25
Navigating the maze: Deepfakes, cognitive ability, and social media news skepticism	25
Effects of immersive storytelling on affective, cognitive, and associative empathy: The mediating role of presence	25
Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots	25
“I do it my way”: Idioms of practice and digital media ideologies of adolescents and older adults	24
What do others’ reactions to body posting on Instagram tell us? The effects of social media comments on viewers’ body image perception	24
Using social media images as data in social science research	24
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Only “sheep” trust journalists? How citizens’ self-perceptions shape their approach to news	24

Hot air and corporate sociotechnical imaginaries: Performing and translating digital futures in the Danish tech scene	24
Does online incivility cancel out the spiral of silence? A moderated mediation model of willingness to speak out	23
Greta Thunberg’s iconicity: Performance and co-performance in the social media ecology	23
Populist ideas on social media: A dictionary-based measurement of populist communication	23
The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the Internet’s cute economy	22
Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies	22
Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption	22
Does distrust in humans predict greater trust in AI? Role of individual differences in user responses to content moderation	22
A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms	22
Vulnerability in a tracked society: Combining tracking and survey data to understand who gets targeted with what content	22
What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data	21
Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy	21
“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game spectatorship	21
The year of the “virtual date”: Reimagining dating app affordances during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Trans-mediated parasocial relationships: Private Facebook groups foster influencer–follower connection	21
I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots	21
Gamblification: A definition	21
(In)visible moderation: A digital ethnography of marginalized users and content moderation on Twitch and Reddit	21
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika	21
Examining the impact of daily exposure to body-positive and fitspiration Instagram content on young women’s mood and body image: An intensive longitudinal study	20
Influence of the pandemic lockdown on Fridays for Future’s hashtag activism	20
The management of LGBTQ+ identities on social media: A student perspective	20
Games-as-a-service: Conflicted identities on the new front-line of video game development	20
The commodification of time and memory: Online communities and the dynamics of commercially produced nostalgia	20
Platform enclosure of human behavior and its measurement: Using behavioral trace data against platform episteme	20
Digital inequality in Finland: Access, skills and attitudes as social impact mediators	19
The rise of Instagram as a tool for political communication: A longitudinal study of European political parties and their followers	19
A future so close: Mapping 10 years of promises and futures across the augmented reality development cycle	19
Clickbait news and algorithmic curation: A game theory framework of the relation between journalism, users, and platforms	19
Voices of the unsung: The role of social presence and interactivity in building empathy in 360 video	19
Examining augmented reality in journalism: Presence, knowledge gain, and perceived visual authenticity	19
Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan	18
Hidden youth? A new perspective on the sociality of young people ‘withdrawn’ in the bedroom in a digital age	18
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use	18
Datafication research: Mapping the field for a future agenda	18
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict	18
‘Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere	18
Predicting problematic smartphone use over time in adolescence: A latent class regression analysis of online and offline activities	18
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice”: Examining feminist digital activism in the Indian #MeToo movement	18
Activist memory narration on social media: Armenian genocide on Instagram	17
Symbolic annihilation through design: Pregnancy loss in pregnancy-related mobile apps	17
Newly minted: Non-fungible tokens and the commodification of fandom	17
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers	17
The emergence of creative and digital place-making: A scoping review across disciplines	17
Beyond positive or negative: Understanding the phenomenology, typologies and impact of incidental news exposure on citizens’ daily lives	17
Resilience and vulnerability: Emotional and affective labour in mom blogging	17
Asymmetric adjustment: Partisanship and correcting misinformation on Facebook	17
Speaking up or staying silent? Examining the influences of censorship and behavioral contagion on opinion (non-) expression in China	17
Not only people are getting old, the new media are too: Technology generations and the changes in new media use	17
Going with the flow: Nudging attention online	16
“This is not how we imagined it”: Technological affordances, economic drivers, and the Internet architecture imaginary	16
‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube	16
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom	16
Playing platformized language games: Social media logic and the mutation of participatory cultures in Chinese online fandom	16
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
The return of the social: Algorithmic identity in an age of symbolic demise	16
Anticipatory news infrastructures: Seeing journalism’s expectations of future publics in its sociotechnical systems	16
YouTube as my space: The relationships between YouTube, social connectedness, and (collective) self-esteem among LGBTQ individuals	16
Backdoor advertising scandals, Yingyeo culture, and cancel culture among YouTube Influencers in South Korea	16
Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities	16
Betting on DOTA 2’s Battle Pass: Gamblification and productivity in play	16
Automated decision-making, digital inclusion and intersectional disabilities	16
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene	16
Constraining context: Situating datafication in public administration	16
“They were having so much fun, so genuinely . . .”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity	16
Character assassination as a right-wing populist communication tactic on social media: The case of Matteo Salvini in Italy	16
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox	15
‘The metaverse and how we’ll build it’: The political economy of Meta’s Reality Labs	15
Platform drama: “Cancel culture,” celebrity, and the struggle for accountability on YouTube	15
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital	15
A snap of your true self: How self-presentation and temporal affordance influence self-concept on social media	15
Policing “Fake” Femininity: Authenticity, Accountability, and Influencer Antifandom	15
We are what we click: Understanding time and content-based habits of online news readers	15
Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact	15
How social media users perceive different forms of online hate speech: A qualitative multi-method study	15
Unlocking the payment experience: Future imaginaries in the case of digital payments	15
“Backstage moments during the campaign”: The interactive use of Instagram by Spanish political leaders	15
Social media and connective action: The case of the Saudi women’s movement for the right to drive	15
Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms	15

Human evaluations of machine translation in an ethically charged situation	15
Online bandwagon effects: Quantitative versus qualitative cues in online comments sections	14
Can we blame social media for polarization? Counter-evidence against filter bubble claims during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Virtual reality perspective-taking at scale: Effect of avatar representation, choice, and head movement on prosocial behaviors	14
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible	14
Making, managing and experiencing ‘the now’: Digital media and the compression and pacing of ‘real-time’	14
Standing on the shoulders of tech giants: Media delivery, streaming television and the rise of global suppliers	14
Communication privacy management for smart speaker use: Integrating the role of privacy self-efficacy and the multidimensional view	14
Putting the “Me” in endorsement: Understanding and conceptualizing dimensions of self-endorsement using intelligent personal assistants	14
Doing time, the smart way? Temporalities of the smart prison	14
Social media use and family connectedness: A systematic review of quantitative literature	14
The posthumous privacy paradox: Privacy preferences and behavior regarding digital remains	14
Exploring the learning potential of online gaming communities: An application of the Game Communities of Inquiry Scale	13
Practical knowledge of algorithms: The case of BreadTube	13
Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps	13
Beyond fans: The relational labor and communication practices of creators on Patreon	13
Participatory censorship: How online fandom community facilitates authoritarian rule	13
Fighting biased news diets: Using news media literacy interventions to stimulate online cross-cutting media exposure patterns	13
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines	13
When news media and social media meet: How Facebook users reacted to news stories about a supermarket plastic bag ban	13
Understanding the social in a digital age	13
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites	13
A softer kind of hard news? Data journalism and the digital renewal of public service news in Sweden	13
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida	13
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada	13
The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban	13
Why settle when there are plenty of fish in the sea? Rusbult’s investment model applied to online dating	13
The construction and mobilization of political consumerism through digital media in a networked social movement	12
Engagement at the margins: Investigating how marginalized teens use digital media for political participation	12
“Splendid Isolation”: The reproduction of music industry inequalities in Spotify’s recommendation system	12
Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion	12
#CancelCulture: Examining definitions and motivations	12
Picture-perfect populism: Tracing the rise of European populist parties on Facebook	12
Pre-service teachers’ insights on data agency	12
Who gets lost? How digital academic reading impacts equal opportunity in higher education	12
Returning to the digital world: Digital technology use and privacy management of women transitioning from incarceration	12
Navigating ambiguous negativity: A case study of Twitch.tv live chats	12
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media	12
Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age: Theorizing critical digital literacy and civic engagement	12
Locked up and left out: Formerly incarcerated people in the context of digital inclusion	12
Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect	12
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam	12
No one-size-fits-all! Eight profiles of digital inequalities for customized inclusion strategies	12
Learning to like TikTok . . . and not: Algorithm awareness as process	12
Picturing the pipeline: Mapping settler colonialism on Instagram	12
Political implications of disconnection on social media: A study of politically motivated unfriending	12
Snapchat lenses and body image concerns	12
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management	12
Visions of unification and integration: Building brains and communities in the European Human Brain Project	12
Fans as transcultural gatekeepers: The hierarchy of BTS’ Anglophone Reddit fandom and the digital East-West media flow	12
Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube	11
Everybody wants some: Collection and control of personal information, privacy concerns, and social media use	11
Nudging towards news diversity: A theoretical framework for facilitating diverse news consumption through recommender design	11
Theorising the ‘Security Influencer’: Speaking security, terror and Muslims on social media during the Manchester bombings	11
The growing field of interdisciplinary research on user comments: A computational scoping review	11
Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information	11
Polarized platforms? How partisanship shapes perceptions of “algorithmic news bias”	11
Protecting the community: How digital media promotes safer behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in authoritarian communities—a case study of the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel	11
Exploring the impacts of Internet access on poverty: A regional analysis of rural Mexico	11
The knowledge gap on social media: Examining roles of engagement and networks	11
Digital intermediation: Unseen infrastructures for cultural production	11
“This would be sweet in VR”: On the discursive newness of virtual reality	11
Explaining inequalities in vulnerable children’s digital skills: The effect of individual and social discrimination	11
Partisan media, untrustworthy news sites, and political misperceptions	11
Hetero-sexting as mediated intimacy work: ‘Putting something on the line’	11
Just slack it: A study of multidisciplinary teamwork based on ethnography and data from online collaborative software	11
Visual disinformation in a digital age: A literature synthesis and research agenda	11
Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter	11
Captured and captioned: Representing family life on Instagram	11
Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data, and temporalities—An introduction to the special issue	11
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective	11
Datafied times: Surveillance capitalism, data technologies and the social construction of time in family life	11
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding	11
Experiencing organ failure in virtual reality: Effects of self- versus other-embodied perspective taking on empathy and prosocial outcomes	10
Birthdays, anniversaries, and temporalities: Or how the past is represented as relevant through on-this-date media	10
Online social engagement, depression, and anxiety among older adults	10
The challenge of repurposed technologies for youth: Understanding the unique affordances of digital self-tracking for adolescents	10
Game on! A randomised controlled trial evaluation of playable technology in improving body satisfaction and negative affect among adolescents	10
Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts	10
The cruel optimism of “good crunch”: How game industry discourses perpetuate unsustainable labor practices	10
Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context	10
Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies	10
Inside a White Power echo chamber: Why fringe digital spaces are polarizing politics	10
Authoritarian downgrading, (self)censorship and new media activism after the Arab Spring	10
Populist alternative news use and its role for elections: Web-tracking and survey evidence from two campaign periods	10
From pre-emption to slowness: Assessing the contrasting temporalities of data-driven predictive policing	10
Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections	10
Direct and indirect relationships between social media use and body satisfaction: A prospective study among adolescent boys and girls	10
Effective social media communication for startups in China: Antecedents and outcomes of organization–public dialogic communication	10
Division of digital labor: Partner support for technology use among older adults	10
Memes, scenes and #ELXN2019s: How partisans make memes during elections	10
The emotive politics of digital mood tracking	10
How mainstream and alternative media shape public attitudes toward social change: Evidence from two panel studies during Malaysia’s democratic transition	9
The role of news media knowledge for how people use social media for news in five countries	9
The exercisability of the right to data portability in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment	9