New Media & Society

Papers
(The TQCC of New Media & Society is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Data mirroring: A methodological framework for data-donation-based interviews in media use research311
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time238
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research112
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source107
Birds of a feather flock even closer together in the digital era: The role of China’s parallel digital realm in the lives of migrant students in Hong Kong95
“He will always love me”: Authentic romance and reciprocal love in otome games92
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community77
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code69
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls68
Perceived realism in VR as a multifaceted concept: Insights from interviews and focus groups with experts and non-experts60
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition59
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter54
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers53
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue50
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202048
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol48
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms48
Media cultivation of public outlooks on artificial general intelligence: Diverging cognitive and emotional pathways of news and entertainment media47
Corrigendum to “Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach”46
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains46
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children45
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code45
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels44
Tackling the challenges of artificial intelligence for public communication: Governance and accountability discourses about the responsible use of AI44
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network44
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis43
Managing multiple accounts for identity construction on Instagram: A privacy management framework43
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown42
Less prejudiced but still not intervening: A field experiment countering online hate speech among adolescents42
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms42
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter41
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness41
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning41
Social media-fication in the apposphere: Hyperdatafication and the repackaging of personal data39
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media39
The complementor perspective: Examining how Dutch developers and industry professionals navigated Google Assistant as a platform (2018–2021)39
Between anger and love: A multi-level study on the impact of policy issues on user reactions in national election campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway39
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy38
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview37
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices36
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat36
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy35
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations34
Book Review: Vidding: A History34
Book Review: Social Media and Hate33
Digital twins as space media32
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section32
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship31
Individual factors of expected and unexpected sexting and the subsequent feelings: A nationally representative study in adolescents31
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment31
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure30
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority30
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system30
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity30
“Why are you on Tinder if this isn’t what you wanted?” Dating apps as digital brokers of sexual activity in the college hookup sexual market30
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception29
Followers, fans, friends, or haters? A typology of the online interactions and relationships between social media influencers and their audiences based on a social capital framework29
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games29
From moderation to chaos: Meta’s fact-checking and the battle over truth and free speech28
The temporal logic of media practices: Mourning and the tooling of time on Facebook28
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry28
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking28
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms27
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review27
Warm experts among us: Conceptualising the challenges of informal digital support for older adults26
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use26
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public26
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media26
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence26
Presumed media influence and support for social media bans: The roles of social and elite-based validation26
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture25
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media25
We had to rely on Instagram: Activist youth in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic25
Are smartphones stress-inducing or stress-buffering for adolescents? An experience-sampling study25
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?24
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments24
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files24
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China24
At the backstage of feminised content creation: How influencer marketing agencies and their data practices shape social media work23
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments23
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context23
Rationalisation of the news: How AI reshapes and retools the gatekeeping processes of news organisations in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany23
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English23
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt23
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?23
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico23
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities22
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps22
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach22
Crisis as opportunity? Far-right mobilization in digital information environments during the COVID-19 pandemic22
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry22
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs22
Governance dynamics in online communities: Autonomy, control, and sense of virtual community22
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes21
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing21
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games20
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration20
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens20
The politics of artificial intelligence alignment: Public reactions to AI moderation in the case of Google’s Gemini20
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture20
Ethical inclusion of children in sensitive research: A four-dimensional model19
Politically influenced by nonpolitical actors? Longitudinal reciprocal associations between social media personalities’ political social media posts and political interest in adolescence19
“A safe, responsible, and profitable ecosystem of music”: Analyzing perceptions and implementation of generative AI in the music industry19
A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism19
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process19
Erratum to ‘Google Maps review sub-platform: A narrative view of design, affordances, and user activity’19
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online18
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art18
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News18
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts18
From outcast to hero and back: The shifting portrayals of the hacker archetype18
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities18
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes18
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions17
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?17
Mirror, mirror. . . disco ball? On dancing with algorithmic double-goers17
A cross-country examination of normative expectations of social media platforms17
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles17
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media17
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination17
Isomorphism and assemblage: Developing legitimacy in the esports podcast ecosystem17
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions17
Me, myself, and the influencer: Examining how parasocial interaction and self-congruence with social media influencers affects news media trust17
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths17
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being17
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects17
The continuity principle of digital remains17
Journalism and social media in creator economies: Evolving structures and labor17
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state17
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content17
Bordering the digital: Between placeless imagination and national practices17
Platformization and privacy issues in the sex robot industry: A political-economic evaluation of a wider-reaching product17
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram17
“Douyin is taming us”: Visibility, governance, and feminist discourses on Douyin16
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change16
Uses and effects of AR- and VR-based animal embodiment: A field study at a beach music festival16
From experimentation to integration: Mapping AI use across European media and communication professionals16
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community16
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management16
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy16
Erratum to “Flattening the News: Platformisation and the Erosion of Topical Diversity Across News Outlet Types”16
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones16
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection16
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed15
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online15
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China15
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”15
Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water15
ChatGPT for cultural heritage and the customization of generative AI: A talkthrough analysis of the Luigi Einaudi chatbot15
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture15
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media15
Book Review: On Black Media Philosophy Armond RTowns, On Black Media Philosophy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022; xi + 242 pp.; ISBN 9780520355804, $29.00 (pbk)15
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media15
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions15
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk15
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”15
An audience perspective on the precarity of Black witnessing15
“Your Wrapped doesn’t lie”: Data realism and Spotify’s constructions of music, listening, and listeners in algorithmic recommendation15
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika15
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse14
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures14
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil14
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan14
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure14
Young women’s perceptions of cooperative privacy threats through the lens of abortion in the United States14
AI generation of rage bait: Implications for digital harms14
The Great Sysop: Elon Musk, X, and the emergence of platform illiberalism14
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach14
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse14
On the Internet no-one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture13
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort13
The personal is the (quasi-) political: The role of memes in critiquing and reproducing hegemonic narratives among reservists’ wives13
The manufacturing of (Un)stability: Possible but improbable stability in long-term content moderation on Chinese social media platforms13
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram13
Making everything ac-count-able: The digital twinning paradigm13
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps13
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process13
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks13
Everything to everyone, all at once: Digital human versions as objects of agency and surrender13
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness13
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance13
The cybernetic death machine: Surveillance, queer identities, and the co-optation of state-sponsored violence in the Nigerian digital space13
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps13
Beyond the streaming black box: Navigating the textures of access and data secrecy in media industries research13
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube13
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders13
Flattening the news: Platformisation and the erosion of topical diversity across news outlet types13
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries12
Toxic speech as political participation: How social media users justify toxicity in political discussions12
Pornographic algorithms: Algorithmically mediated pornification and South Korean women’s everyday resistance on social media12
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?12
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram12
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft12
The violence of online conspiracy theories12
Silicon Valley revisited: On Californian ideologies and the differences they make12
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms StefanieDuguay, Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on12
Web3 and deep play: Blockchain gaming in the Global South12
Slaying, twerking and bounded becomings: Teenage girls’ digital sexual assemblages in South Africa12
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms12
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data12
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors12
Changing the norms of citizenship? Attitude, platforms and crisis-driven shifts in 17 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities12
Witnessing carnage: Self-documented terrorism and the moral challenges of decentralized digital platforms12
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic12
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem12
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities12
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services12
There is no such thing as a digital twin: Deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies in Dutch urban governance12
Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis12
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine11
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems11
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots11
Growing up with misinformation: A mixed-methods study of the perceptions, experiences, and responses among the 5- to 12-year-olds11
“Always perfect, discrimination free, and informed”: The perfect intersectional feminist and digital feminist allyship discourses11
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping11
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees11
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari11
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test11
“On TikTok, everything needs to be playful, even the Holocaust!”: Playability, memes, and participatory memory culture11
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes11
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States11
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election11
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts11
Affective liquidity, synthetic bonds: VTubers as posthuman mediators of digital intimacies11
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital11
Making a global gig workers’ movement meaningful locally: Friction in activists’ everyday strategies11
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey11
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system11
From livelihood to livestream: Temporal opportunities of Chinese street vendors11
Editorial11
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios11
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible11
A brave new democracy: Remarks on the impact of social media, algorithms, and AI on politics and citizenship11
The extrajudicial digital: Disconnection as a legacy of institutional control11
Reviewer Acknowledgements10
From the urban factory to the metaverse: Understanding datafication, spatial computing and digital twinning practices10
The moral license of a click: How social observability and impression management tendencies moderate the effects of online clicktivism on donation behavior10
Digital communication and social support for disadvantaged youth: A social network survey of youth experiencing homelessness10
Book Reviews: Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate Luke Munn10
The city without qualities: Inventing urban computing10
Technolinguistic suspension and the digital futures of minority languages: AI and Meänkieli in Sweden10
TikTok as a peer playground: Understanding how children in middle childhood use TikTok to shape their peer relations10
On Agricultural Techniques: Broadcast , precision , and the media of culture10
The theoretical wedding of computational propaganda and information operations: Unraveling digital manipulation in conflict zones10
Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in UK higher education10
Google Radio Automation and the broadcast plights behind platformization10
Predicting COVID: Understanding audience responses to predictive journalism via online comments10
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