Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn

Article	Citations
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	98
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	63
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	53
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	47
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	44
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	39
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet Dame-GriffAvery, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet, New York: New York University Press, 2023. ISBN: 97	38
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	33
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	32
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	32
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	30
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	29
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	27
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	27
What’s behind that screenshot? Digital windows and capturing data on screen	26
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	24
Book Review: Review of Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym	24
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	23
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	22
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	22
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	22
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	20
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue	20
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	19
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	19

From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	17
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	17
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	16
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	16
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	16
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	16
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	16
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	15
Book Review: The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era Chua, Emily HC, The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-S	15
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	14
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	14
Pluralising critical technical practice	14
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	14
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	13
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	13
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	13
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	13
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	13
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	13
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	13
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	13
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	13
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	12
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	12
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	12
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	12
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	12
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	12
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	12
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	11
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	11
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	10
Framing the startup accelerator through assemblage theory: A case study of an intensive hub in Indonesia	10
A note from the editors	10
Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture	10
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	10
Situating the videogame maker’s agency through craft	10
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	10
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	10
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	10
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	9
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	9
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	9
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	9
Transnationalisation revisited through the Netflix Original: An analysis of investment strategies in Europe	9
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	9
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	9
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	9

Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	9
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	9
Embodied parallelism and immersion in virtual reality gaming	9
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	9
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	9
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	8
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	8
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	8
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	8
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	8
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	8
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	8
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	7
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	7
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	7
Introduction	7
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	7
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	7
Visualization as infrastructure: China’s data visualization politics during COVID-19 and their implications for public health emergencies	7
The epitome of reprehensible individualism: The Dutch response to the Walkman, 1980–1995	7
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	7
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen:Bon Appetitand digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	7
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	7
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	7
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	7
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	7
Are you talking to me? Generation X, Y, Z responses to mobile advertising	7
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	6
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	6
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	6
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	6
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	6
Visibility and security in the smart home	6
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	6
Book review: Media ruins: Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology	6
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	6
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	6
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	6
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	6
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	6
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	6
Participatory conspiracy culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit	5
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	5
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	5
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	5
Behind-the-scenes of the parliament: Influencer genres and political authenticity on Swedish politicians’ YouTube channels	5
Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	5
Machinic agency and datafication: Labour and value after anthropocentrism	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
The politics of data visualisation and policy making	5
A note from the editors	5
‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body	5
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	5
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	5
Book review: The private is political: Networked privacy and social media by Alice Marwick	5
Book review: Algorithms of resistance Bonini T and Treré E (2024)  Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 25	5
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages	5
The material politics of mobile virtual reality: Oculus, data, and the technics of sensemaking	5
Post-social media: de-platformed users’ challenges to belong in ‘corpo-civic’ spaces	5
Playing with persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media	4
New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom	4
Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation	4
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies	4
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants	4
Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes	4
Pictures from the Atomic Force Microscope: Temporal Representation in the Moving Image	4
Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation	4
Digital media and the banalization of deception	4
Transforming the Doctoral Defence: Remote-Access Technologies and Social Space	4
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	4
The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces	4
If you’re reading this, it’s meant for you: The reflexive ambivalence of algorithmic conspirituality	4
VR/AR artworks in the museum: Redefining preservation through collaboration	4
Invisible, aesthetic, and enrolled listeners across storytelling modalities: Immersive preference as situated player type	4

Intensification, discovery and abandonment: Unearthing global ecologies of dis/connection in pandemic times	4
Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models	4
The ethical dilemma of modding digital games: A literature review of the creation and distribution of mods	4
Collecting streaming services	4
Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice	4
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community	4
The narrativization of ludic elements in videogame fanfiction	4
‘Azadi’s political until you’re pressing play’: Capitalist realism, hip-hop, and platform affordances	4
More real, or just more surveillance? Panopticism and shifting authenticity paradigms in BeReal	4
Critical data studies meets discard studies: Waste data reflectivity in digital urban waste tracking system	3
Book Review: The Modem World. A Prehistory of Social Media	3
RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online	3
Nextdoor v. the community network literature: Do Nextdoor’s uses match the potential envisioned for ComNets	3
Social media engagements of music videos on YouTube’s official artist channels	3
QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking	3
Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China	3
Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies	3
Data as capital and ethical implications in digital sport business models	3
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization	3
Digital pedagogies post-COVID-19: The future of teaching with/in new technologies	3
Visualising policy responses during health emergencies. Learning from the COVID-19 policy trackers	3
The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries	3
Sustainability of Facebook-radio convergence for content distribution in Nigeria: Computational content and stakeholders’ perspectives analyses	3
‘Grandma, tell that story about how to make napalm again’: Exploring early adopters’ collaborative domestication of generative AI	3
Recalcitrant audiencing: Between analytics and creative practice in the film industry	3
Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis	3
WeChat users’ debunking strategies in response to COVID-19 conspiracy theories: A mixed-methods study	3
Virtual nexus: Female players’ emotional attachment in a role-playing video game	3
‘I produce songs for her …. In this way, I gradually know her more. The more I know her, the more I like her’: Using Collins’ model of interactive ritual chains to study the case of virtual idol fando	3
What’s the problem with “screen time”? A content analysis of dominant voices and worries in three years of national print media	3
Exploring users’ algorithmic knowledge and reflexivity in a music streaming context: A critical realist approach	3
Technology acceptance, moral panic, and perceived ease of use: Negotiating ChatGPT at research one universities	3
Troubling games: Materials, histories, and speculative future worlds for games pedagogy	3
Narrative virtual reality as a memory machine	3
To Convince, to Provoke or to Entertain? A Study on Individual Motivations behind Engaging with Conspiracy Theories Online	3
The taste of video: Facebook videos as multi-sensory experiences	3
Dynamic roles of social presence and individual differences in social TV platforms	3
The category is #gaymer: A multi-method approach for understanding the queer player experience	3
Band of blood brothers: Exploring visibility management and networking among Twitter users identifying as Filipino men living with HIV	3
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder	3
The participatory politics and play of canceling an idol: Exploring how fans negotiate their fandom of a canceled ‘fave’	3
‘It is not good for the person to be alone’: The capabilities approach and the right to communicate	3
Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil	3
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes	3
Spanish Twitch streamers: Personal influence in a broadcast model akin to television	3
‘The road to the metaverse is not a straight one’: Social representations of virtual reality in the news media	3
Domesticating algorithms through data reflectivity and user reflexivity: The metaphor of Yanghao on Xiaohongshu (RED)	3
Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility	3
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces: Oliver-ssaem’s strategic identity-distancing for visibility on YouTube	3
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture	3
A bottom-up method for remixing narratives for virtual heritage experiences	2
Making immersive storytelling accessible: Interactive low-tech implementation in elementary school civic learning	2
Race/ethnicity, online information and COVID-19 vaccination: Study of minority immigrants’ internet use for health-related information	2
From glows to graphics: The invention of visuality in early electronic media systems	2
Avoiding conflict and minimising exposure: Face-work on Twitter	2
‘People tell me quite intimate things’: The circulation of feelings and vague intimacy on politicised Instagram	2
Engender(ing) immigrant space: A praxis through collaborative storytelling and interactive documentary	2
Adapting global methodologies to digital inequalities research in a multicultural Arab environment	2
A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis	2
Rage against the empathy machine revisited: The ethics of empathy-related affordances of virtual reality	2
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence	2
Reddit’s cops and cop-watchers: Resisting and insisting on change in online interpretive communities	2
Digital resource abundance: How social media shapes success and failure of online mobilisation	2
Shades of digital deception: Self-presentation among men seeking men on locative dating apps	2
‘This app can help you change your voice’: Authenticity and authority in mobile applications for transgender voice training	2
Characteristics of invention development during the hackathon	2
Technoliberalism and the Complementary Relationships between Humanitarian, Conservation, and Entrepreneurial Dronework in Indonesia	2
Algorithmic experiences of Netflix’s users in the Arab world: Implications for agency and social practice	2
Book Review: To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms	2
Workers’ right to the subject: The social relations of data production	2
We love to hate George Soros: A cross-platform analysis of the Globalism conspiracy theory campaign in Brazil	2
Loved everywhere?: Netflix’s top 10 and the popularity of geographically diverse content	2
Of tubes and telegrams: The names of social media platforms and messenger services	2
(De)constructing machines as critical technical practice	2
Establishing networked misogyny as a counter movement: The analysis of the online anti-Istanbul convention presence	2
Black summer on TikTok and ABC news: Shaping cultural identity during an Australian bushfire crisis	2
Probing ‘instaworthiness’: Siting the selfie	2
Negotiating digital visibility in Asia: Rethinking conceptual frameworks through (g)local communities and practices	2
The quantification of diversity: Netflix, visibility politics and the grammar of transnationalism	2
StreamingDiversité: Exploring representations within French-language scripted series on Canadian SVOD services	2
Analysing podcast intimacy: Four parameters	2
The digitally manipulated family photograph: MyHeritage’s ‘Deep Nostalgia’, and the extended temporality of the photographic image	2
‘This is a House’: Large Image Collections and Their Platform Embeddings	2
Delivery riders’ cultural production in Spain: A thematic analysis of their self-representation on YouTube	2
The (in)visibility of diversity on streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails	2
Mapping an online production network: The field of ‘actual play’ media	2
‘Definitely not in the business of wanting to be associated’: Examining public relations in a deplatformization controversy	2
Interfering with the black-box-tradeoff model: Gephisto, a one-click Gephi for critical technical practice	2
Ambivalent visibilities : Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth	2
Deathlogging: GoPros as forensic media in accidental sporting deaths	2
Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources	2
Infinite media: The contemporary infinite paradigm in media	2
Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life	2
Achieving agency within imperfect automation: Working customers and self-service technologies	2
Reassembling #MeToo: Tracing the techno-affective agency of the feminist Instagram influencer	2