Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn

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‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	101
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	65
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	56
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	39
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	39
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	35
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	33
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	32
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	31
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	29
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	29
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	26
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	25
What’s behind that screenshot? Digital windows and capturing data on screen	24
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	24
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	23
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	22
Book Review: Review of Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym	22
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	20
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue	20
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	19
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	19
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	19
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	17
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	17

What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	16
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	16
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	16
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
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	15
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	15
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	15
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	15
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	15
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	14
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	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
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	14
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	13
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	13
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	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
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	12
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	12
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	12
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	12
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	12
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	12
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	12
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	11
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	11
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	11
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	11
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	11
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	11
Situating the videogame maker’s agency through craft	11
Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture	10
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	10
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	10
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	10
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	10
A note from the editors	10
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	10
Framing the startup accelerator through assemblage theory: A case study of an intensive hub in Indonesia	10
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	10
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	10
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	10
Embodied parallelism and immersion in virtual reality gaming	10
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	9
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	9
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9

Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	9
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	9
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	9
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	8
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	8
Visualization as infrastructure: China’s data visualization politics during COVID-19 and their implications for public health emergencies	8
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	8
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	8
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	8
Transnationalisation revisited through the Netflix Original: An analysis of investment strategies in Europe	8
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	8
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	8
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	7
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	7
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
The epitome of reprehensible individualism: The Dutch response to the Walkman, 1980–1995	7
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	7
Introduction	7
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	7
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	7
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	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
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	7
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	7
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	7
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	6
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	6
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	6
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	6
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	6
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	6
Are you talking to me? Generation X, Y, Z responses to mobile advertising	6
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	6
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	6
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	6
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	6
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	6
Book review: Media ruins: Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Visibility and security in the smart home	6
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	6
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	5
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	5
Participatory conspiracy culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit	5
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	5
Post-social media: de-platformed users’ challenges to belong in ‘corpo-civic’ spaces	5
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
Book review: The private is political: Networked privacy and social media by Alice Marwick	5
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	5
‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body	5
Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	5
The politics of data visualisation and policy making	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
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	5
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	5
A note from the editors	5
Behind-the-scenes of the parliament: Influencer genres and political authenticity on Swedish politicians’ YouTube channels	5
Machinic agency and datafication: Labour and value after anthropocentrism	5
The narrativization of ludic elements in videogame fanfiction	4
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	4
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community	4
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	4
Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation	4
Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation	4
More real, or just more surveillance? Panopticism and shifting authenticity paradigms in BeReal	4
Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models	4
Collecting streaming services	4
The material politics of mobile virtual reality: Oculus, data, and the technics of sensemaking	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
Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes	4
Invisible, aesthetic, and enrolled listeners across storytelling modalities: Immersive preference as situated player type	4
VR/AR artworks in the museum: Redefining preservation through collaboration	4
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants	4

New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom	4
Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice	4
‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages	4
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies	4
Transforming the Doctoral Defence: Remote-Access Technologies and Social Space	4
Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis	4
Pictures from the Atomic Force Microscope: Temporal Representation in the Moving Image	4
The ethical dilemma of modding digital games: A literature review of the creation and distribution of mods	4
‘Azadi’s political until you’re pressing play’: Capitalist realism, hip-hop, and platform affordances	4
Social media engagements of music videos on YouTube’s official artist channels	3
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes	3
Domesticating algorithms through data reflectivity and user reflexivity: The metaphor of Yanghao on Xiaohongshu (RED)	3
What’s the problem with “screen time”? A content analysis of dominant voices and worries in three years of national print media	3
Critical data studies meets discard studies: Waste data reflectivity in digital urban waste tracking system	3
Sustainability of Facebook-radio convergence for content distribution in Nigeria: Computational content and stakeholders’ perspectives analyses	3
The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries	3
The taste of video: Facebook videos as multi-sensory experiences	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
Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility	3
Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies	3
Content creators’ hopes and fears about artificial intelligence	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
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization	3
WeChat users’ debunking strategies in response to COVID-19 conspiracy theories: A mixed-methods study	3
‘The road to the metaverse is not a straight one’: Social representations of virtual reality in the news media	3
To Convince, to Provoke or to Entertain? A Study on Individual Motivations behind Engaging with Conspiracy Theories Online	3
Narrative virtual reality as a memory machine	3
The category is #gaymer: A multi-method approach for understanding the queer player experience	3
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture	3
‘Grandma, tell that story about how to make napalm again’: Exploring early adopters’ collaborative domestication of generative AI	3
Digital media and the banalization of deception	3
Exploring users’ algorithmic knowledge and reflexivity in a music streaming context: A critical realist approach	3
Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil	3
QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking	3
Virtual nexus: Female players’ emotional attachment in a role-playing video game	3
The participatory politics and play of canceling an idol: Exploring how fans negotiate their fandom of a canceled ‘fave’	3
Troubling games: Materials, histories, and speculative future worlds for games pedagogy	3
Technology acceptance, moral panic, and perceived ease of use: Negotiating ChatGPT at research one universities	3
Visualising policy responses during health emergencies. Learning from the COVID-19 policy trackers	3
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces: Oliver-ssaem’s strategic identity-distancing for visibility on YouTube	3
Digital pedagogies post-COVID-19: The future of teaching with/in new technologies	3
‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder	3
Recalcitrant audiencing: Between analytics and creative practice in the film industry	3
Band of blood brothers: Exploring visibility management and networking among Twitter users identifying as Filipino men living with HIV	3
Playing with persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media	3
Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China	3
From glows to graphics: The invention of visuality in early electronic media systems	2
‘Definitely not in the business of wanting to be associated’: Examining public relations in a deplatformization controversy	2
Memetic memory as vital conduits of troublemakers in digital culture	2
Loved everywhere?: Netflix’s top 10 and the popularity of geographically diverse content	2
Black summer on TikTok and ABC news: Shaping cultural identity during an Australian bushfire crisis	2
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence	2
Infinite media: The contemporary infinite paradigm in media	2
Probing ‘instaworthiness’: Siting the selfie	2
Spanish Twitch streamers: Personal influence in a broadcast model akin to television	2
‘People tell me quite intimate things’: The circulation of feelings and vague intimacy on politicised Instagram	2
Horror to humour: The affective transformation of the moment of death in Little Nightmares	2
The (in)visibility of diversity on streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails	2
Making immersive storytelling accessible: Interactive low-tech implementation in elementary school civic learning	2
Delivery riders’ cultural production in Spain: A thematic analysis of their self-representation on YouTube	2
The digitally manipulated family photograph: MyHeritage’s ‘Deep Nostalgia’, and the extended temporality of the photographic image	2
Race/ethnicity, online information and COVID-19 vaccination: Study of minority immigrants’ internet use for health-related information	2
Reassembling #MeToo: Tracing the techno-affective agency of the feminist Instagram influencer	2
Book Review: To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms	2
Interfering with the black-box-tradeoff model: Gephisto, a one-click Gephi for critical technical practice	2
Achieving agency within imperfect automation: Working customers and self-service technologies	2
Data as capital and ethical implications in digital sport business models	2
Shades of digital deception: Self-presentation among men seeking men on locative dating apps	2
Negotiating digital visibility in Asia: Rethinking conceptual frameworks through (g)local communities and practices	2
Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources	2
Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life	2
Ambivalent visibilities : Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth	2
Reproduce and adapt: Homestuck in print and digital (Re)Incarnations	2
A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis	2
‘This app can help you change your voice’: Authenticity and authority in mobile applications for transgender voice training	2
A bottom-up method for remixing narratives for virtual heritage experiences	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
Visual tactility: ‘Oddly satisfying’ videos, sensory genres and ambiguities in children’s YouTube	2
The quantification of diversity: Netflix, visibility politics and the grammar of transnationalism	2
(Semi-)immersive digital placemaking: A systematic literature review on augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications in placemaking	2
Reddit’s cops and cop-watchers: Resisting and insisting on change in online interpretive communities	2
Mapping an online production network: The field of ‘actual play’ media	2
Rage against the empathy machine revisited: The ethics of empathy-related affordances of virtual reality	2
StreamingDiversité: Exploring representations within French-language scripted series on Canadian SVOD services	2
Of tubes and telegrams: The names of social media platforms and messenger services	2
Establishing networked misogyny as a counter movement: The analysis of the online anti-Istanbul convention presence	2
Dynamic roles of social presence and individual differences in social TV platforms	2
A framework of transmediation	2
Digital resource abundance: How social media shapes success and failure of online mobilisation	2
Platform policy and online abuse: Understanding differential protections for public figures	2
Characteristics of invention development during the hackathon	2
‘This is a House’: Large Image Collections and Their Platform Embeddings	2