New Media & Society

Article	Citations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform	185
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review	117
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19	103
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified	86
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation	84
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited	74
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review	70
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors	62
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective	60
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak	58
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective	58
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness	57
Digital well-being theory and research	56
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries	55
Social media literacy: A conceptual framework	50
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media	49
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	47
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia	44
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review	44
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’	41
In(cel)doctrination: How technologically facilitated misogyny moves violence off screens and on to streets	40
Health-related fake news on social media platforms: A systematic literature review	39
From observation on social media to offline political participation: The social media affordances approach	37
Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem	37
‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab	36

Facebook futures: Mark Zuckerberg’s discursive construction of a better world	36
“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries	34
A question of perspective: Exploring audiences’ views of journalistic boundaries	34
Engagement with candidate posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the 2019 election	33
Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms	33
Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship	33
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research	32
Participatory branding on social media: The affordances of live streaming for creative labor	32
Metaphors in moderation	31
A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages	31
Using social media images as data in social science research	30
A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms	30
Effects of immersive storytelling on affective, cognitive, and associative empathy: The mediating role of presence	30
Enhanced self-regulation: The case of Facebook’s content governance	30
Populist ideas on social media: A dictionary-based measurement of populist communication	30
Data and oil: Metaphor, materiality and metabolic rifts	29
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States	29
Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter	29
Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users’ feelings for out-group parties	28
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships	28
Hot air and corporate sociotechnical imaginaries: Performing and translating digital futures in the Danish tech scene	28
Filtering feminisms: Emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram	28
Incidental news exposure via social media and political participation: Evidence of reciprocal effects	27
Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Witnessing Eva Stories: Media witnessing and self-inscription in social media memory	27
Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation	27
Navigating the maze: Deepfakes, cognitive ability, and social media news skepticism	26
Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies	26
Greta Thunberg’s iconicity: Performance and co-performance in the social media ecology	25
Gamblification: A definition	25
Only “sheep” trust journalists? How citizens’ self-perceptions shape their approach to news	25
Does distrust in humans predict greater trust in AI? Role of individual differences in user responses to content moderation	25
Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy	24
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game spectatorship	24
The rise of Instagram as a tool for political communication: A longitudinal study of European political parties and their followers	24
(In)visible moderation: A digital ethnography of marginalized users and content moderation on Twitch and Reddit	24
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers	24
Vulnerability in a tracked society: Combining tracking and survey data to understand who gets targeted with what content	24
The management of LGBTQ+ identities on social media: A student perspective	23
What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data	23
Digital inequality in Finland: Access, skills and attitudes as social impact mediators	23
The year of the “virtual date”: Reimagining dating app affordances during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene	23
Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan	22
The emergence of creative and digital place-making: A scoping review across disciplines	22
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika	22
Platform drama: “Cancel culture,” celebrity, and the struggle for accountability on YouTube	22
Newly minted: Non-fungible tokens and the commodification of fandom	22
Examining augmented reality in journalism: Presence, knowledge gain, and perceived visual authenticity	22

Datafication research: Mapping the field for a future agenda	21
Influence of the pandemic lockdown on Fridays for Future’s hashtag activism	21
Clickbait news and algorithmic curation: A game theory framework of the relation between journalism, users, and platforms	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	21
Games-as-a-service: Conflicted identities on the new front-line of video game development	21
Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities	21
Asymmetric adjustment: Partisanship and correcting misinformation on Facebook	21
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom	21
“This is not how we imagined it”: Technological affordances, economic drivers, and the Internet architecture imaginary	20
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible	20
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use	20
A future so close: Mapping 10 years of promises and futures across the augmented reality development cycle	20
Character assassination as a right-wing populist communication tactic on social media: The case of Matteo Salvini in Italy	20
Voices of the unsung: The role of social presence and interactivity in building empathy in 360 video	20
Backdoor advertising scandals, Yingyeo culture, and cancel culture among YouTube Influencers in South Korea	20
Practical knowledge of algorithms: The case of BreadTube	20
‘Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere	20
Symbolic annihilation through design: Pregnancy loss in pregnancy-related mobile apps	19
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Beyond fans: The relational labor and communication practices of creators on Patreon	19
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	19
How social media users perceive different forms of online hate speech: A qualitative multi-method study	19
Policing “Fake” Femininity: Authenticity, Accountability, and Influencer Antifandom	19
Constraining context: Situating datafication in public administration	19
Online social engagement, depression, and anxiety among older adults	18
Not only people are getting old, the new media are too: Technology generations and the changes in new media use	18
Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms	18
A snap of your true self: How self-presentation and temporal affordance influence self-concept on social media	17
Communication privacy management for smart speaker use: Integrating the role of privacy self-efficacy and the multidimensional view	17
Playing platformized language games: Social media logic and the mutation of participatory cultures in Chinese online fandom	17
Learning to like TikTok . . . and not: Algorithm awareness as process	17
Activist memory narration on social media: Armenian genocide on Instagram	17
Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps	17
Unlocking the payment experience: Future imaginaries in the case of digital payments	17
YouTube as my space: The relationships between YouTube, social connectedness, and (collective) self-esteem among LGBTQ individuals	17
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada	17
Beyond positive or negative: Understanding the phenomenology, typologies and impact of incidental news exposure on citizens’ daily lives	17
Social media use and family connectedness: A systematic review of quantitative literature	16
‘The metaverse and how we’ll build it’: The political economy of Meta’s Reality Labs	16
The posthumous privacy paradox: Privacy preferences and behavior regarding digital remains	16
Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact	16
Online bandwagon effects: Quantitative versus qualitative cues in online comments sections	16
“Backstage moments during the campaign”: The interactive use of Instagram by Spanish political leaders	16
“This would be sweet in VR”: On the discursive newness of virtual reality	16
#CancelCulture: Examining definitions and motivations	16
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital	16
The construction and mobilization of political consumerism through digital media in a networked social movement	16
Automated decision-making, digital inclusion and intersectional disabilities	16
Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age: Theorizing critical digital literacy and civic engagement	16
Locked up and left out: Formerly incarcerated people in the context of digital inclusion	16
Human evaluations of machine translation in an ethically charged situation	15
Visual disinformation in a digital age: A literature synthesis and research agenda	15
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam	15
Engagement at the margins: Investigating how marginalized teens use digital media for political participation	15
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media	15
Returning to the digital world: Digital technology use and privacy management of women transitioning from incarceration	15
Participatory censorship: How online fandom community facilitates authoritarian rule	15
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida	15
Snapchat lenses and body image concerns	14
Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion	14
Partisan media, untrustworthy news sites, and political misperceptions	14
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox	14
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites	14
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective	14
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines	14
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding	14
Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter	14
Virtual reality perspective-taking at scale: Effect of avatar representation, choice, and head movement on prosocial behaviors	14
A softer kind of hard news? Data journalism and the digital renewal of public service news in Sweden	14
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management	14
The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban	14
Can we blame social media for polarization? Counter-evidence against filter bubble claims during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Just slack it: A study of multidisciplinary teamwork based on ethnography and data from online collaborative software	13
Inside a White Power echo chamber: Why fringe digital spaces are polarizing politics	13
Exploring the learning potential of online gaming communities: An application of the Game Communities of Inquiry Scale	13
Longitudinal effects of cyberbullying at work on well-being and strain: A five-wave survey study	13
Picture-perfect populism: Tracing the rise of European populist parties on Facebook	13
Visions of unification and integration: Building brains and communities in the European Human Brain Project	13
Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube	13
Everybody wants some: Collection and control of personal information, privacy concerns, and social media use	13

“Splendid Isolation”: The reproduction of music industry inequalities in Spotify’s recommendation system	13
The cruel optimism of “good crunch”: How game industry discourses perpetuate unsustainable labor practices	13
Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect	13
Pre-service teachers’ insights on data agency	13
No one-size-fits-all! Eight profiles of digital inequalities for customized inclusion strategies	13
Exploring the impacts of Internet access on poverty: A regional analysis of rural Mexico	13
Nudging towards news diversity: A theoretical framework for facilitating diverse news consumption through recommender design	13
Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information	13
Polarized platforms? How partisanship shapes perceptions of “algorithmic news bias”	13
Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies	13
Navigating ambiguous negativity: A case study of Twitch.tv live chats	12
Digital intermediation: Unseen infrastructures for cultural production	12
Use and changes in the use of the Internet for obtaining services among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey study	12
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	12
Captured and captioned: Representing family life on Instagram	12
Political implications of disconnection on social media: A study of politically motivated unfriending	12
Explaining inequalities in vulnerable children’s digital skills: The effect of individual and social discrimination	12
Who gets lost? How digital academic reading impacts equal opportunity in higher education	12
The knowledge gap on social media: Examining roles of engagement and networks	12
The growing field of interdisciplinary research on user comments: A computational scoping review	12
“I agree with you, bot!” How users (dis)engage with social bots on Twitter	11
Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts	11
Authoritarian downgrading, (self)censorship and new media activism after the Arab Spring	11
What do we know about algorithmic literacy? The status quo and a research agenda for a growing field	11
Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections	11
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self	11
Division of digital labor: Partner support for technology use among older adults	11
Theorising the ‘Security Influencer’: Speaking security, terror and Muslims on social media during the Manchester bombings	11
Global platforms and asymmetrical power: Industry dynamics and opportunities for policy change	11
Populist alternative news use and its role for elections: Web-tracking and survey evidence from two campaign periods	11
Effective social media communication for startups in China: Antecedents and outcomes of organization–public dialogic communication	11
The promise of personalisation: Exploring how music streaming platforms are shaping the performance of class identities and distinction	11
The role of impulsivity, social relations online and offline, and compulsive Internet use in cyberaggression: A four-country study	11
Gangs and social media: A systematic literature review and an identification of future challenges, risks and recommendations	11
Rohingya diaspora online: Mapping the spaces of visibility, resistance and transnational identity on social media	11
Experiencing organ failure in virtual reality: Effects of self- versus other-embodied perspective taking on empathy and prosocial outcomes	11
Algorithms as figures: Towards a post-digital ethnography of algorithmic contexts	10
Self-branding strategies of online freelancers on Upwork	10
Regulating and representing camming: Strict limits on acceptable content on webcam sex platforms	10
Red flags, sob stories, and scams: The contested meaning of governance on carework labor platforms	10
Trust-oriented affordances: A five-country study of news trustworthiness and its socio-technical articulations	10
The role of news media knowledge for how people use social media for news in five countries	10
Constitutional metaphors: Facebook’s “supreme court” and the legitimation of platform governance	10
The challenge of repurposed technologies for youth: Understanding the unique affordances of digital self-tracking for adolescents	10
Understanding news engagement on social media: A media repertoire approach	10
Storing and sharing: Everyday relationships with digital material	10
The emotive politics of digital mood tracking	10
Facets of algorithmic literacy: Information, experience, and individual factors predict attitudes toward algorithmic systems	10
Out of sight, out of mind? (In)visibility of/in platform-mediated work	10
Culturally centring digital inclusion and marginality: A case study in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
The stratification of media usage in Finland, 2007–2018: Signs of socio-political polarization?	10
Trust in open data applications through transparency	10
Artificial intelligence and the affective labour of understanding: The intimate moderation of a language model	10
Proactive ephemerality: How journalists use automated and manual tweet deletion to minimize risk and its consequences for social media as a public archive	10
Memes, scenes and #ELXN2019s: How partisans make memes during elections	10
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry	10
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking	10
Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context	10
Direct and indirect relationships between social media use and body satisfaction: A prospective study among adolescent boys and girls	10
A systematic literature review of the motivations to share fake news on social media platforms and how to fight them	10
“How it actually works”: Algorithmic lore videos as market devices	10
Game on! A randomised controlled trial evaluation of playable technology in improving body satisfaction and negative affect among adolescents	10
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach	9
The epistemologies of data journalism	9
Let’s verify and rectify! Examining the nuanced influence of risk appraisal and norms in combatting misinformation	9
The degree of heterogeneity of news consumption in Germany—Descriptive statistics and relations with individual differences in personality, ideological attitudes, and voting intentions	9
Phenomenal algorhythms: The sensorial orchestration of “real-time” in the social media manifold	9
For better and for worse: A panel survey of how mobile-only and hybrid Internet use affects digital skills over time	9
Dealing with disagreement: The depolarizing effects of everyday diplomatic skills face-to-face and online	9
Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape	9
Clowning around a polarized issue: Rhetorical strategies and communicative outcomes of a political parody performance by Loldiers of Odin	9
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?	9
“Foreign beauties want to meet you”: The sexualization of women in Google’s organic and sponsored text search results	9
Impact of misinformation from generative AI on user information processing: How people understand misinformation from generative AI	9
“I suppose I’ll be patching you up, as usual”: Women’s roles and normative femininity in a team-based video game	9
Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities	9
‘Anyway, the dashboard is dead’: On trying to build urban informatics	9
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram	9
The inter-institutional impact of digital platform companies on democracy: A case study of the UK media’s digital campaigning coverage	9
Why do volunteer content moderators quit? Burnout, conflict, and harmful behaviors	9
Converging cultures of communication: A comparative study of Internet use in China, Europe, and the United States	9
Monopolization and competition under platform capitalism: Analyzing transformations in the computing industry	9
How digital devices transform literary reading: The impact of e-books, audiobooks and online life on reading habits	8
Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany	8
Evolution of audience duplication networks among social networking sites: Exploring the influences of preferential attachment, audience size, and niche width	8
Fact-checking, reputation, and political falsehoods in Italy and the United States	8
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?	8
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains	8
Searching differently? How political attitudes impact search queries about political issues	8
Dimensions of autonomy in human–algorithm relations	8
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter	8
Mapping the transnational imaginary of social media genres	8
How behavioral homophily on social media influences the perception of tie-strengthening within young adults’ personal networks	8
Amplification and the limits of visibility: Complicating strategies of trans voice and representations on social media	8
Shaping feminist artificial intelligence	8