New Media & Society

Papers
(The TQCC of New Media & Society is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning152
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization108
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition102
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue93
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code88
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum83
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels80
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children79
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community69
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research68
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms62
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source59
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter54
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code53
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls51
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol51
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 Norway50
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital49
Algorithms as complementary abstractions47
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter46
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis46
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness45
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains43
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers42
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network41
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media40
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202040
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok39
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section39
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure38
Book Review: Social Media and Hate37
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment37
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry36
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups36
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games35
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview35
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use33
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use33
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system33
“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 market32
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2332
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media32
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship32
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy32
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy32
Book Review: Vidding: A History32
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics32
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations30
“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities30
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms30
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia30
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices30
Regimes of justification in the datafied workplace: The case of hiring29
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity29
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat29
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception28
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review28
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking28
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 framework28
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence28
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes27
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs26
Digital semaphore: Political discourse and identity negotiation through 4chan’s /pol/26
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps26
‘Endorsing a dictatorship and getting paid for it’: Discursive struggles over intimacy and authenticity in the politicisation of influencer collaborations26
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach25
Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong25
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China25
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media25
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public25
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments25
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English25
Connecting in-game performance, need satisfaction, and psychological well-being: A comparison of older and younger players in World of Tanks25
Book Review: Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences24
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context24
Book Review: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence23
Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion23
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?23
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities23
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?23
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture23
Book Review: Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing22
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry22
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles21
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments21
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico21
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt21
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths21
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files21
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts21
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing21
Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information21
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict21
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene21
“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic20
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration20
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being20
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process20
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis20
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities20
“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities20
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes20
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News20
The continuity principle of digital remains20
Examining virtual reality for pro-social attitude change20
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online20
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers19
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects19
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media19
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games19
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic19
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes19
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content19
Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany19
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
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram18
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions18
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes17
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review17
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state17
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?17
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art17
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media17
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions16
Book Review: The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence16
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda16
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions16
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media16
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones16
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?16
Viral paradox: The intersection of “me too” and #MeToo16
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection16
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community16
Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter16
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change15
Regimes of recognition on algorithmic media15
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed15
Only “sheep” trust journalists? How citizens’ self-perceptions shape their approach to news15
The promise of personalisation: Exploring how music streaming platforms are shaping the performance of class identities and distinction15
Data and oil: Metaphor, materiality and metabolic rifts15
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management15
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika14
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure14
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube14
Copyright and the modern car: Colliding visions of the public good in DMCA section 1201 anti-circumvention proceedings14
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture14
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps14
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk14
Book Review: On Black Media Philosophy14
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”14
Editorial14
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China14
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse14
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy14
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram14
Guy next door and implausibly attractive young women: The visual frames of social media propaganda14
Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water14
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”14
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan14
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance14
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process13
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media13
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse13
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders13
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right13
Beyond accessibility: Exploring digital inclusivity in US progressive politics13
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness13
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement13
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach13
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing13
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services12
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding12
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps12
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality12
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities12
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures12
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment12
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft12
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort12
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms12
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms12
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks12
Digital heuristics: How parties strategize political communication in hybrid media environments12
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries12
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam11
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
Editor’s introduction11
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots11
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic11
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram11
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?11
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities11
Book Review: Instagram: Visual social media cultures11
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis11
Digital ventriloquism and celebrity access: Cameo and the emergence of paid puppeteering on digital platforms11
‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies11
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem11
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan11
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine11
Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections11
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media11
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system11
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence11
Which recommendation system do you trust the most? Exploring the impact of perceived anthropomorphism on recommendation system trust, choice confidence, and information disclosure11
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data11
Social capital in video game studies: A scoping review11
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada11
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches10
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test10
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari10
Twitter activism: Understanding the Twittersphere as the foremost community for activism and dragging in Nigeria10
IQ and digital inequality: An empirical investigation10
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida10
Humour and Comedy in Digital Game Live Streaming10
Editorial10
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey10
‘How do I become blue pilled?’: Masculine ontological insecurity on 4chan’s advice board10
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States10
Fact-checking, reputation, and political falsehoods in Italy and the United States10
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines10
Fear of Missing Out as motivation to process information: How differences in Instagram use affect attitude formation online10
The “algorithmic as if ”: Computational resurrection and the animation of the dead in Deep Nostalgia10
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible10
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts10
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping10
Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism10
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees10
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media10
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes10
Longitudinal effects of cyberbullying at work on well-being and strain: A five-wave survey study10
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom10
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages10
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital10
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios10
Representativeness and face-ism: Gender bias in image search9
Serendipity on radio and streaming: Between musical discovery and recognition9
The city without qualities: Inventing urban computing9
Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption9
Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in UK higher education9
No trade-offs between news and entertainment: Evidence from online engagement data9
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States9
Child idols in South Korea and beyond: Manufacturing young stars at the intersection of the K-pop and influencer industries9
Platforms, programmability, and precarity: The platformization of research repositories in academic libraries9
YouTube as my space: The relationships between YouTube, social connectedness, and (collective) self-esteem among LGBTQ individuals9
On Agricultural Techniques: Broadcast, precision, and the media of culture9
Google Radio Automation and the broadcast plights behind platformization9
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