New Media & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of New Media & Society is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform124
Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance97
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-1979
Dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The role of political talk, cross-cutting exposure and social corrections77
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review75
A systematic literature review on disinformation: Toward a unified taxonomical framework74
The unedited public sphere74
Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms69
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation62
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified60
Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults: The warm experts’ perspective60
Vulnerable populations and misinformation: A mixed-methods approach to underserved older adults’ online information assessment58
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence56
Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany56
Right-wing populism, social media and echo chambers in Western democracies50
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited49
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak47
Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit47
Temporal arbitrage, fragmented rush, and opportunistic behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy47
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review46
The third digital divide and Bourdieu: Bidirectional conversion of economic, cultural, and social capital to (and from) digital capital among young people in Madrid46
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach46
The limits of the imaginary: Challenges to intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithms46
Hyperpartisan news: Rethinking the media for populist politics45
Oculus imaginaries: The promises and perils of Facebook’s virtual reality45
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective44
The disconcerting potential of online disinformation: Persuasive effects of astroturfing comments and three strategies for inoculation against them42
Scientific and subversive: The two faces of the fourth era of political campaigning41
Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response40
Anticipating and addressing the ethical implications of deepfakes in the context of elections40
Professional social media usage: Work engagement perspective39
Twitter and Facebook: Populists’ double-barreled gun?36
Drawing from justice theories to support targets of online harassment36
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors36
Populism in the era of Twitter: How social media contextualized new insights into an old phenomenon35
Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument35
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective33
Hashtagging depression on Instagram: Towards a more inclusive mental health research methodology33
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries33
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis32
Mediated trust: A theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators31
Smart mobility, age and data justice31
Digital well-being theory and research31
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media30
“Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable”: Biased definitions of sexual content in video game live streaming30
Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem30
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’29
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness29
Social media literacy: A conceptual framework29
The challenges of studying 4chan and the Alt-Right: ‘Come on in the water’s fine’28
In(cel)doctrination: How technologically facilitated misogyny moves violence off screens and on to streets28
Preparing for smart voice assistants: Cultural histories and media innovations28
Content moderation: Social media’s sexist assemblages28
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social media28
Are you ready for artificial Mozart and Skrillex? An experiment testing expectancy violation theory and AI music28
Facebook futures: Mark Zuckerberg’s discursive construction of a better world28
Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network28
From observation on social media to offline political participation: The social media affordances approach27
Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms27
From archive cultures to ephemeral content, and back: Studying Instagram Stories with digital methods27
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities27
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia26
‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey26
Perceptions of mis- or disinformation exposure predict political cynicism: Evidence from a two-wave survey during the 2018 US midterm elections26
Health-related fake news on social media platforms: A systematic literature review25
Witnessing Eva Stories: Media witnessing and self-inscription in social media memory25
“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries24
Social media, rituals, and long-distance family relationship maintenance: A mixed-methods systematic review24
Incidental news exposure via social media and political participation: Evidence of reciprocal effects24
Telling lies together? Sharing news as a form of social authentication24
Metaphors in moderation24
Rethinking the digital democratic affordance and its impact on political representation: Toward a new framework23
A question of perspective: Exploring audiences’ views of journalistic boundaries23
Recovering critique in an age of datafication23
Data and oil: Metaphor, materiality and metabolic rifts22
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research22
Filtering feminisms: Emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram22
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships22
‘A male dominance kind of vibe’: Approaching unsolicited dick pics as sexism22
Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots22
Does online incivility cancel out the spiral of silence? A moderated mediation model of willingness to speak out22
Participatory branding on social media: The affordances of live streaming for creative labor22
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States21
What do others’ reactions to body posting on Instagram tell us? The effects of social media comments on viewers’ body image perception21
Gender moderation and moderating gender: Sexual content policies in Twitch’s community guidelines21
Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship21
Enhanced self-regulation: The case of Facebook’s content governance21
Using social media images as data in social science research21
Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter21
What predicts esports betting? A study on consumption of video games, esports, gambling and demographic factors21
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic21
From parasocial to parakin: Co-creating idols on social media20
Navigating the maze: Deepfakes, cognitive ability, and social media news skepticism20
‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab20
Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship20
A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages19
The right-time web: Theorizing the kairologic of algorithmic media19
Greta Thunberg’s iconicity: Performance and co-performance in the social media ecology19
Hot air and corporate sociotechnical imaginaries: Performing and translating digital futures in the Danish tech scene19
Platform enclosure of human behavior and its measurement: Using behavioral trace data against platform episteme19
Vulnerability in a tracked society: Combining tracking and survey data to understand who gets targeted with what content19
I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots18
Examining the impact of daily exposure to body-positive and fitspiration Instagram content on young women’s mood and body image: An intensive longitudinal study18
Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies18
Only “sheep” trust journalists? How citizens’ self-perceptions shape their approach to news18
Parenting in the digital age: Between socio-biological and socio-technological development18
Clickbait news and algorithmic curation: A game theory framework of the relation between journalism, users, and platforms17
Examining augmented reality in journalism: Presence, knowledge gain, and perceived visual authenticity17
Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users’ feelings for out-group parties17
“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game spectatorship17
A future so close: Mapping 10 years of promises and futures across the augmented reality development cycle17
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict17
Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption17
Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation17
Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam17
Hidden youth? A new perspective on the sociality of young people ‘withdrawn’ in the bedroom in a digital age17
Sources on social media: Information context collapse and volume of content as predictors of source blindness17
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice”: Examining feminist digital activism in the Indian #MeToo movement17
Perceiving online public opinion: The impact of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, and source credibility on speaking out17
Trans-mediated parasocial relationships: Private Facebook groups foster influencer–follower connection17
The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the Internet’s cute economy17
Influence of the pandemic lockdown on Fridays for Future’s hashtag activism17
The commodification of time and memory: Online communities and the dynamics of commercially produced nostalgia16
Memes as snapshots of participation: The role of digital amateur activists in authoritarian regimes16
Games-as-a-service: Conflicted identities on the new front-line of video game development16
Predicting problematic smartphone use over time in adolescence: A latent class regression analysis of online and offline activities16
Going online on behalf of someone else: Characteristics of Internet users who act as proxy users16
Skin deep: Callout strategies, influencers, and racism in the online beauty community16
The return of the social: Algorithmic identity in an age of symbolic demise16
The year of the “virtual date”: Reimagining dating app affordances during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan15
Populist ideas on social media: A dictionary-based measurement of populist communication15
What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data15
“They were having so much fun, so genuinely . . .”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity15
Effects of immersive storytelling on affective, cognitive, and associative empathy: The mediating role of presence15
“I do it my way”: Idioms of practice and digital media ideologies of adolescents and older adults15
‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube15
Beyond the gender (dis)empowerment dichotomy: The mobile phone as social catalyst for gender transformation in the Global South15
Engagement with candidate posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the 2019 election15
Not only people are getting old, the new media are too: Technology generations and the changes in new media use15
Anticipatory news infrastructures: Seeing journalism’s expectations of future publics in its sociotechnical systems15
Digital inequality in Finland: Access, skills and attitudes as social impact mediators15
Backdoor advertising scandals, Yingyeo culture, and cancel culture among YouTube Influencers in South Korea15
Speaking up or staying silent? Examining the influences of censorship and behavioral contagion on opinion (non-) expression in China14
Going with the flow: Nudging attention online14
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers14
YouTube as my space: The relationships between YouTube, social connectedness, and (collective) self-esteem among LGBTQ individuals14
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Gamblification: A definition14
Beyond positive or negative: Understanding the phenomenology, typologies and impact of incidental news exposure on citizens’ daily lives14
“This is not how we imagined it”: Technological affordances, economic drivers, and the Internet architecture imaginary14
Disappearing acts: Content moderation and emergent practices to preserve at-risk human rights–related content14
‘Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere14
Voices of the unsung: The role of social presence and interactivity in building empathy in 360 video14
We are what we click: Understanding time and content-based habits of online news readers14
Sexting, power, and patriarchy: Narratives of sexting from a college population14
The construction and mobilization of political consumerism through digital media in a networked social movement13
Standing on the shoulders of tech giants: Media delivery, streaming television and the rise of global suppliers13
The management of LGBTQ+ identities on social media: A student perspective13
The emergence of creative and digital place-making: A scoping review across disciplines13
Unlocking the payment experience: Future imaginaries in the case of digital payments13
“Backstage moments during the campaign”: The interactive use of Instagram by Spanish political leaders13
Is sexting bad for adolescent girls’ psychological well-being? A longitudinal assessment in middle to late adolescence13
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review13
Newly minted: Non-fungible tokens and the commodification of fandom13
‘The metaverse and how we’ll build it’: The political economy of Meta’s Reality Labs13
Ingestible sensors, data, and pharmaceuticals: Subjectivity in the era of digital mental health13
Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic13
Depolarization through social media use: Evidence from dual identifiers in Hong Kong12
The rise of Instagram as a tool for political communication: A longitudinal study of European political parties and their followers12
Betting on DOTA 2’s Battle Pass: Gamblification and productivity in play12
Social media use and family connectedness: A systematic review of quantitative literature12
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work12
Social media and connective action: The case of the Saudi women’s movement for the right to drive12
Facebook confessions: Corporate abdication and Silicon Valley dystopianism12
A snap of your true self: How self-presentation and temporal affordance influence self-concept on social media12
Policing “Fake” Femininity: Authenticity, Accountability, and Influencer Antifandom12
Why settle when there are plenty of fish in the sea? Rusbult’s investment model applied to online dating12
Symbolic annihilation through design: Pregnancy loss in pregnancy-related mobile apps12
Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms12
How social media users perceive different forms of online hate speech: A qualitative multi-method study12
Understanding the social in a digital age12
Navigating ambiguous negativity: A case study of Twitch.tv live chats12
Fighting biased news diets: Using news media literacy interventions to stimulate online cross-cutting media exposure patterns12
A softer kind of hard news? Data journalism and the digital renewal of public service news in Sweden11
Platform drama: “Cancel culture,” celebrity, and the struggle for accountability on YouTube11
Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps11
When news media and social media meet: How Facebook users reacted to news stories about a supermarket plastic bag ban11
Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities11
(In)visible moderation: A digital ethnography of marginalized users and content moderation on Twitch and Reddit11
Datafication research: Mapping the field for a future agenda11
Exploring the learning potential of online gaming communities: An application of the Game Communities of Inquiry Scale11
The posthumous privacy paradox: Privacy preferences and behavior regarding digital remains11
Does distrust in humans predict greater trust in AI? Role of individual differences in user responses to content moderation11
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use11
Character assassination as a right-wing populist communication tactic on social media: The case of Matteo Salvini in Italy11
Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy11
Political implications of disconnection on social media: A study of politically motivated unfriending11
Asymmetric adjustment: Partisanship and correcting misinformation on Facebook11
Hetero-sexting as mediated intimacy work: ‘Putting something on the line’11
Constraining context: Situating datafication in public administration11
‘Open source has won and lost the war’: Legitimising commercial–communal hybridisation in a FOSS project11
Punching up or turning away? Palestinians unfriending Jewish Israelis on Facebook11
Picturing the pipeline: Mapping settler colonialism on Instagram11
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites11
Making, managing and experiencing ‘the now’: Digital media and the compression and pacing of ‘real-time’10
Online bandwagon effects: Quantitative versus qualitative cues in online comments sections10
Can we blame social media for polarization? Counter-evidence against filter bubble claims during the COVID-19 pandemic10
The growing field of interdisciplinary research on user comments: A computational scoping review10
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene10
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management10
Pre-service teachers’ insights on data agency10
Visions of unification and integration: Building brains and communities in the European Human Brain Project10
Returning to the digital world: Digital technology use and privacy management of women transitioning from incarceration10
Digital pruning: Agency and social media use as a personal political project among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders10
Game on! A randomised controlled trial evaluation of playable technology in improving body satisfaction and negative affect among adolescents10
Digital intermediation: Unseen infrastructures for cultural production10
Resilience and vulnerability: Emotional and affective labour in mom blogging10
The emotive politics of digital mood tracking10
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom10
Techno-capital: Theorizing media and information literacy through information technology capabilities10
Direct and indirect relationships between social media use and body satisfaction: A prospective study among adolescent boys and girls10
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox10
Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube10
Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter10
Virtual reality perspective-taking at scale: Effect of avatar representation, choice, and head movement on prosocial behaviors10
Activist memory narration on social media: Armenian genocide on Instagram10
The cruel optimism of “good crunch”: How game industry discourses perpetuate unsustainable labor practices10
Datafied times: Surveillance capitalism, data technologies and the social construction of time in family life10
Online verbal aggression, social relationships, and self-efficacy beliefs10
Birthdays, anniversaries, and temporalities: Or how the past is represented as relevant through on-this-date media10
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 Israel10
Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion9
From pre-emption to slowness: Assessing the contrasting temporalities of data-driven predictive policing9
Cultural production and platform mediation: A case in music crowdfunding9
Picture-perfect populism: Tracing the rise of European populist parties on Facebook9
Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact9
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding9
Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information9
A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms9
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible9
Is it all about storytelling? Living and learning hereditary cancer on Twitter9
Playing platformized language games: Social media logic and the mutation of participatory cultures in Chinese online fandom9
Putting the “Me” in endorsement: Understanding and conceptualizing dimensions of self-endorsement using intelligent personal assistants9
Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data, and temporalities—An introduction to the special issue9
Political and personality predispositions and topical contexts matter: Effects of uncivil comments on science news engagement intentions9
Body image self-consciousness and sexting among heterosexual and non-exclusively heterosexual individuals9
Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context9
Experiencing organ failure in virtual reality: Effects of self- versus other-embodied perspective taking on empathy and prosocial outcomes9
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam9
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