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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue244
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research237
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time212
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children99
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol95
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community87
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code82
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network81
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms75
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown67
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels64
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source59
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls58
Managing multiple accounts for identity construction on Instagram: A privacy management framework54
Perceived realism in VR as a multifaceted concept: Insights from interviews and focus groups with experts and non-experts54
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 Kong53
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter52
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum51
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers47
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 Norway47
Data mirroring: A methodological framework for data-donation-based interviews in media use research46
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness46
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition45
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter45
Media cultivation of public outlooks on artificial general intelligence: Diverging cognitive and emotional pathways of news and entertainment media44
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains41
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning39
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202039
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms39
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis39
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code39
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure38
“He will always love me”: Authentic romance and reciprocal love in otome games38
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview37
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment37
From moderation to chaos: Meta’s fact-checking and the battle over truth and free speech37
Book Review: Social Media and Hate37
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms37
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship36
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section36
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat35
Social media-fication in the apposphere: Hyperdatafication and the repackaging of personal data35
The temporal logic of media practices: Mourning and the tooling of time on Facebook34
Book Review: Vidding: A History34
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations34
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking34
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics34
Individual factors of expected and unexpected sexting and the subsequent feelings: A nationally representative study in adolescents33
Digital twins as space media32
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia32
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy32
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media31
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy31
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media30
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 framework30
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity29
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups29
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices29
The complementor perspective: Examining how Dutch developers and industry professionals navigated Google Assistant as a platform (2018–2021)29
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use28
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority28
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system28
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games27
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use27
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry27
“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 market27
Governance dynamics in online communities: Autonomy, control, and sense of virtual community26
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception26
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt26
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review26
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture25
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English25
Book Review: Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences25
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files25
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China24
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context24
At the backstage of feminised content creation: How influencer marketing agencies and their data practices shape social media work24
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry24
We had to rely on Instagram: Activist youth in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic24
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public23
Warm experts among us: Conceptualising the challenges of informal digital support for older adults23
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence23
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments23
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico23
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments23
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?23
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs23
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?23
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media22
Rationalisation of the news: How AI reshapes and retools the gatekeeping processes of news organisations in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany22
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach22
Are smartphones stress-inducing or stress-buffering for adolescents? An experience-sampling study22
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News22
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps22
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities22
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes22
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes21
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture21
A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism21
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities21
Me, myself, and the influencer: Examining how parasocial interaction and self-congruence with social media influencers affects news media trust21
Isomorphism and assemblage: Developing legitimacy in the esports podcast ecosystem21
Erratum to ‘Google Maps review sub-platform: A narrative view of design, affordances, and user activity’21
The continuity principle of digital remains21
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing21
Ethical inclusion of children in sensitive research: A four-dimensional model21
Politically influenced by nonpolitical actors? Longitudinal reciprocal associations between social media personalities’ political social media posts and political interest in adolescence21
Platformization and privacy issues in the sex robot industry: A political-economic evaluation of a wider-reaching product20
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination20
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content20
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens20
Journalism and social media in creator economies: Evolving structures and labor20
From outcast to hero and back: The shifting portrayals of the hacker archetype20
“A safe, responsible, and profitable ecosystem of music”: Analyzing perceptions and implementation of generative AI in the music industry20
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration19
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions19
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process19
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being19
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram19
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis19
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles19
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media19
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths19
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts19
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online18
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects18
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?18
Individual and collective coping with racial discrimination: What drives social media activism among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak18
From experimentation to integration: Mapping AI use across European media and communication professionals18
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy18
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art18
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games18
Mirror, mirror. . . disco ball? On dancing with algorithmic double-goers18
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change17
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media17
Viral paradox: The intersection of “me too” and #MeToo17
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions17
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community17
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions17
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed17
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management17
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones17
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection17
Uses and effects of AR- and VR-based animal embodiment: A field study at a beach music festival17
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state17
Erratum to “Flattening the News: Platformisation and the Erosion of Topical Diversity Across News Outlet Types”16
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika16
An audience perspective on the precarity of Black witnessing16
“Douyin is taming us”: Visibility, governance, and feminist discourses on Douyin16
The Great Sysop: Elon Musk, X, and the emergence of platform illiberalism16
ChatGPT for cultural heritage and the customization of generative AI: A talkthrough analysis of the Luigi Einaudi chatbot16
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online16
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure16
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil15
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
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
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media15
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing15
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness15
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse15
Young women’s perceptions of cooperative privacy threats through the lens of abortion in the United States15
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan15
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture14
“Your Wrapped doesn’t lie”: Data realism and Spotify’s constructions of music, listening, and listeners in algorithmic recommendation14
Making everything ac-count-able: The digital twinning paradigm14
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram14
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”14
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk14
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right14
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach14
The cybernetic death machine: Surveillance, queer identities, and the co-optation of state-sponsored violence in the Nigerian digital space14
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps14
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China14
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures14
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process14
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram13
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders13
Flattening the news: Platformisation and the erosion of topical diversity across news outlet types13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort13
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam13
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft13
Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis13
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance13
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse13
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality13
Silicon Valley revisited: On Californian ideologies and the differences they make13
Beyond the streaming black box: Navigating the textures of access and data secrecy in media industries research13
There is no such thing as a digital twin: Deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies in Dutch urban governance13
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries13
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment13
AI generation of rage bait: Implications for digital harms13
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement13
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube13
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps13
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data13
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan12
Pornographic algorithms: Algorithmically mediated pornification and South Korean women’s everyday resistance on social media12
The violence of online conspiracy theories12
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine12
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
On the Internet no-one knows you’re not a bot: ‘Botting’ on Reddit as participatory culture12
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services12
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks12
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors12
“On TikTok, everything needs to be playful, even the Holocaust!”: Playability, memes, and participatory memory culture12
Everything to everyone, all at once: Digital human versions as objects of agency and surrender12
Toxic speech as political participation: How social media users justify toxicity in political discussions12
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities12
The manufacturing of (Un)stability: Possible but improbable stability in long-term content moderation on Chinese social media platforms12
Witnessing carnage: Self-documented terrorism and the moral challenges of decentralized digital platforms12
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?12
The personal is the (quasi-) political: The role of memes in critiquing and reproducing hegemonic narratives among reservists’ wives12
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios11
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem11
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari11
From livelihood to livestream: Temporal opportunities of Chinese street vendors11
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts11
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system11
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States11
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities11
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms11
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital11
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots11
Humour and Comedy in Digital Game Live Streaming11
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election11
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems11
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic11
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media11
Editorial11
Web3 and deep play: Blockchain gaming in the Global South11
‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies11
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
What about this blockchain thing?10
The theoretical wedding of computational propaganda and information operations: Unraveling digital manipulation in conflict zones10
Shade visibility: Assessing the algorithmic role of colorism in the perception of Black beauty influencers10
Google Radio Automation and the broadcast plights behind platformization10
On Agricultural Techniques: Broadcast, precision, and the media of culture10
Book Review: Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society10
“Foreign beauties want to meet you”: The sexualization of women in Google’s organic and sponsored text search results10
Technological affordances, low-power AI, and climate justice among the Ogiek in Kenya’s Mau forest10
Google Maps review sub-platform: A narrative view of design, affordances, and user activity10
Technolinguistic suspension and the digital futures of minority languages: AI and Meänkieli in Sweden10
Digital communication and social support for disadvantaged youth: A social network survey of youth experiencing homelessness10
Reviewer Acknowledgements10
Platforms, programmability, and precarity: The platformization of research repositories in academic libraries10
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