New Media & Society

Papers
(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 34. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum193
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue182
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research148
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization131
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code126
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning117
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter74
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels71
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source68
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers58
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls58
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 Norway57
Algorithms as complementary abstractions53
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter53
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202052
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network48
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms45
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown45
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol42
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community42
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time42
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains39
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition38
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital38
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code38
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children38
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis36
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms36
Book Review: Social Media and Hate36
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness36
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure36
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment35
Digital twins as space media34
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms34
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity34
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system34
“Why are you on Tinder if this isn’t what you wanted?” Dating apps as digital brokers of sexual activity in the college hookup sexual market34
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat34
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