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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum201
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue174
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research159
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms134
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code76
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter75
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source71
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls67
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers66
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 Norway65
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown61
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms58
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time55
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels51
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202048
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition45
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children44
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community43
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol43
Algorithms as complementary abstractions42
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital41
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning40
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter40
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness40
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network39
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code38
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization38
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains37
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis37
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure36
Book Review: Social Media and Hate36
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment36
Digital twins as space media35
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms35
“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 market34
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system34
“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities33
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview33
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok33
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority32
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups32
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat32
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy31
Book Review: Vidding: A History31
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2331
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship31
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations31
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media31
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics31
The temporal logic of media practices: Mourning and the tooling of time on Facebook31
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception30
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry30
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media30
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia30
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games29
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy29
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section28
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 framework27
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use27
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity27
Individual factors of expected and unexpected sexting and the subsequent feelings: A nationally representative study in adolescents27
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking26
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review26
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use26
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices26
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context25
Governance dynamics in online communities: Autonomy, control, and sense of virtual community25
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English25
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt25
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities25
Book Review: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence25
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments24
Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong24
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry23
Rationalisation of the news: How AI reshapes and retools the gatekeeping processes of news organisations in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany23
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture23
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach23
Book Review: Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences23
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?22
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China22
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media22
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?22
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs22
Warm experts among us: Conceptualising the challenges of informal digital support for older adults22
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments22
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public22
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico22
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence21
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files21
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps21
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News21
‘Endorsing a dictatorship and getting paid for it’: Discursive struggles over intimacy and authenticity in the politicisation of influencer collaborations21
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes21
A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism20
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities20
Me, myself, and the influencer: Examining how parasocial interaction and self-congruence with social media influencers affects news media trust20
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes20
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture20
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens20
Isomorphism and assemblage: Developing legitimacy in the esports podcast ecosystem20
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online19
“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic19
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?19
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing19
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media19
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram19
Erratum to ‘Google Maps review sub-platform: A narrative view of design, affordances, and user activity’19
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis19
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process19
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes19
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes18
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games18
Ethical inclusion of children in sensitive research: A four-dimensional model18
Politically influenced by nonpolitical actors? Longitudinal reciprocal associations between social media personalities’ political social media posts and political interest in adolescence18
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art18
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects18
Individual and collective coping with racial discrimination: What drives social media activism among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak18
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination18
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts18
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths18
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being18
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions18
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content18
The continuity principle of digital remains18
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration18
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers18
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles18
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media18
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state17
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change17
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community17
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy17
Book Review: The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence17
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions17
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones17
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management17
ChatGPT for cultural heritage and the customization of generative AI: A talkthrough analysis of the Luigi Einaudi chatbot16
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media16
Mirror, mirror. . . disco ball? On dancing with algorithmic double-goers16
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika16
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?16
Uses and effects of AR- and VR-based animal embodiment: A field study at a beach music festival16
Viral paradox: The intersection of “me too” and #MeToo16
Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water16
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed16
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions16
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection16
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda16
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram15
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China15
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media15
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture15
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”15
Editorial15
Young women’s perceptions of cooperative privacy threats through the lens of abortion in the United States15
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
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement15
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure15
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”15
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan15
AI generation of rage bait: Implications for digital harms15
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk15
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil15
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online15
Making everything ac-count-able: The digital twinning paradigm14
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse14
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse14
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing14
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness14
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube14
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures14
An audience perspective on the precarity of Black witnessing14
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process14
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps14
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self14
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors13
Beyond accessibility: Exploring digital inclusivity in US progressive politics13
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality13
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance13
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities13
Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis13
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic13
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach13
Everything to everyone, all at once: Digital human versions as objects of agency and surrender13
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right13
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort13
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries13
Silicon Valley revisited: On Californian ideologies and the differences they make13
“On TikTok, everything needs to be playful, even the Holocaust!”: Playability, memes, and participatory memory culture13
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders13
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks13
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram13
Web3 and deep play: Blockchain gaming in the Global South12
The personal is the (quasi-) political: The role of memes in critiquing and reproducing hegemonic narratives among reservists’ wives12
Editorial12
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft12
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media12
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital12
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem12
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?12
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps12
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
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam12
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan12
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media12
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities12
There is no such thing as a digital twin: Deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies in Dutch urban governance12
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services12
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data12
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms12
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence12
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari12
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine12
Which recommendation system do you trust the most? Exploring the impact of perceived anthropomorphism on recommendation system trust, choice confidence, and information disclosure11
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes11
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems11
The “algorithmic as if ”: Computational resurrection and the animation of the dead in Deep Nostalgia11
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping11
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey11
From livelihood to livestream: Temporal opportunities of Chinese street vendors11
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States11
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees11
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system11
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches11
Making a global gig workers’ movement meaningful locally: Friction in activists’ everyday strategies11
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test11
Humour and Comedy in Digital Game Live Streaming11
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election11
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages11
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida11
Shade visibility: Assessing the algorithmic role of colorism in the perception of Black beauty influencers10
The moral license of a click: How social observability and impression management tendencies moderate the effects of online clicktivism on donation behavior10
No trade-offs between news and entertainment: Evidence from online engagement data10
Editor’s introduction10
Reviewer Acknowledgements10
The city without qualities: Inventing urban computing10
More platforms, less attention to news? A multi-platform analysis of news exposure across TV, web, and YouTube in the United States10
Book Review: Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society10
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots10
What about this blockchain thing?10
The usefulness of open events: Navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups10
Digital communication and social support for disadvantaged youth: A social network survey of youth experiencing homelessness10
‘BEING A FANGIRL OF A SERIAL KILLER IS NOT OK’: Gatekeeping Reddit’s True Crime Community10
“Foreign beauties want to meet you”: The sexualization of women in Google’s organic and sponsored text search results10
Book Reviews: Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate Luke Munn10
Trust is key: Determinants of false beliefs about climate change in eight countries10
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