New Media & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of New Media & Society is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue172
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum142
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels122
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research121
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital100
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children99
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition98
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains77
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 Norway65
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers63
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code55
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization54
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls53
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter52
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source52
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning52
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter51
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code50
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community49
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol44
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis44
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202044
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown43
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network43
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms41
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms39
Algorithms as complementary abstractions38
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups38
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure38
Book Review: Social Media and Hate38
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness38
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview37
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system36
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games35
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use34
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok34
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia34
Book Review: Vidding: A History33
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship33
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2333
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media33
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics33
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity32
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations32
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms31
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy31
Individual factors of expected and unexpected sexting and the subsequent feelings: A nationally representative study in adolescents31
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat30
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking30
“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities30
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment29
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section29
“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 market29
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices29
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy28
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media28
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use27
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry27
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception27
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority27
Regimes of justification in the datafied workplace: The case of hiring27
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 framework27
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English26
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review26
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments26
Digital semaphore: Political discourse and identity negotiation through 4chan’s /pol/26
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence25
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict25
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture25
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 Sciences25
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt24
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry24
Book Review: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence24
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media23
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach23
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?23
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?23
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments23
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico23
Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong22
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene22
Rationalisation of the news: How AI reshapes and retools the gatekeeping processes of news organisations in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany22
Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information22
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps22
Governance dynamics in online communities: Autonomy, control, and sense of virtual community21
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities21
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China21
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context21
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public21
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files21
‘Endorsing a dictatorship and getting paid for it’: Discursive struggles over intimacy and authenticity in the politicisation of influencer collaborations21
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing20
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs20
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes20
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis19
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination19
“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities19
The continuity principle of digital remains19
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths19
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News19
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process19
Ethical inclusion of children in sensitive research: A four-dimensional model19
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games19
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online19
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles18
A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism18
Isomorphism and assemblage: Developing legitimacy in the esports podcast ecosystem18
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities18
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram18
Individual and collective coping with racial discrimination: What drives social media activism among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak18
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media18
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects17
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions17
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content17
Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany17
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media17
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes17
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes17
“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic17
Examining virtual reality for pro-social attitude change17
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art16
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?16
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts16
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers16
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being15
Uses and effects of AR- and VR-based animal embodiment: A field study at a beach music festival15
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change15
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state15
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration15
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media15
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions15
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda15
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes15
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture15
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions15
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?15
Book Review: The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence15
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens15
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review15
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy14
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones14
Viral paradox: The intersection of “me too” and #MeToo14
Book Review: On Black Media Philosophy14
Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water14
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach14
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram14
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management14
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed14
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection14
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure14
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China14
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media14
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right14
Regimes of recognition on algorithmic media14
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community14
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika14
Editorial14
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online14
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”14
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse14
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps13
Beyond accessibility: Exploring digital inclusivity in US progressive politics13
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self13
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse13
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture13
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube13
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures13
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing13
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process13
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan13
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality12
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”12
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement12
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam12
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps12
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries12
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan12
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding12
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil12
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance12
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment12
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms12
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort12
Social capital in video game studies: A scoping review12
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem12
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk12
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders12
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks12
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram12
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services12
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?12
Digital ventriloquism and celebrity access: Cameo and the emergence of paid puppeteering on digital platforms11
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios11
Editor’s introduction11
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media11
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data11
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities11
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine11
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors11
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence11
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital11
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey11
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test11
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis11
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms11
Web3 and deep play: Blockchain gaming in the Global South11
Silicon Valley revisited: On Californian ideologies and the differences they make11
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Editorial11
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media11
Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism11
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees11
‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies11
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic11
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft11
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities11
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts10
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States10
Book Reviews: Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate Luke Munn10
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems10
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping10
The usefulness of open events: Navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups10
‘How do I become blue pilled?’: Masculine ontological insecurity on 4chan’s advice board10
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari10
Humour and Comedy in Digital Game Live Streaming10
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines10
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes10
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible10
What about this blockchain thing?10
Book Review: Social media and everyday life in South Africa10
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
Longitudinal effects of cyberbullying at work on well-being and strain: A five-wave survey study10
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages10
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches10
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots10
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system10
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida10
Book Review: Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society10
Which recommendation system do you trust the most? Exploring the impact of perceived anthropomorphism on recommendation system trust, choice confidence, and information disclosure10
The “algorithmic as if ”: Computational resurrection and the animation of the dead in Deep Nostalgia10
Making a global gig workers’ movement meaningful locally: Friction in activists’ everyday strategies10
Trust is key: Determinants of false beliefs about climate change in eight countries9
Predicting COVID: Understanding audience responses to predictive journalism via online comments9
Child idols in South Korea and beyond: Manufacturing young stars at the intersection of the K-pop and influencer industries9
Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok9
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