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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition159
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue123
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum104
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels99
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children97
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community90
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research86
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source80
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter74
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code72
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol65
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls59
Algorithms as complementary abstractions54
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis54
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers53
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network52
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code51
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains49
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 Norway48
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202047
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital46
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness45
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization45
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning44
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section42
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter42
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media42
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms42
Book Review: Social Media and Hate40
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure40
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok40
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment38
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview37
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups37
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system36
“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 market35
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices35
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy35
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media35
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 framework35
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics34
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship34
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2334
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations33
Book Review: Vidding: A History33
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking32
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia32
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception32
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat32
Regimes of justification in the datafied workplace: The case of hiring32
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy31
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use31
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority30
“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities30
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms30
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity30
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry30
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use29
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review29
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games28
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China27
Digital semaphore: Political discourse and identity negotiation through 4chan’s /pol/27
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments27
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence27
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files26
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico26
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps26
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments26
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach26
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict26
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context25
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
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English25
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities24
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture24
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?24
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry23
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt23
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?23
Book Review: Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing23
Book Review: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence23
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
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs22
Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong22
Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion22
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths21
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes21
‘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 drawing21
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes21
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles21
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene21
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public21
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News21
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts21
Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information21
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities20
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration20
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects20
“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities20
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis20
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media20
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process20
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online20
The continuity principle of digital remains20
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being19
Individual and collective coping with racial discrimination: What drives social media activism among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak19
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media19
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?19
Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany19
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games18
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic18
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens18
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions18
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination18
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes18
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture18
Examining virtual reality for pro-social attitude change18
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes18
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram17
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content17
“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic17
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers17
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art16
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions16
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda16
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community16
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review16
Viral paradox: The intersection of “me too” and #MeToo16
Book Review: The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence16
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change16
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media16
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?16
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones16
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions16
Data and oil: Metaphor, materiality and metabolic rifts15
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed15
Regimes of recognition on algorithmic media15
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management15
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection15
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy15
The promise of personalisation: Exploring how music streaming platforms are shaping the performance of class identities and distinction15
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state15
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse14
Editorial14
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube14
Only “sheep” trust journalists? How citizens’ self-perceptions shape their approach to news14
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”14
Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water14
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self14
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process14
Book Review: On Black Media Philosophy14
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk14
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram14
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”14
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures14
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps14
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure14
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika14
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance14
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture14
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness13
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement13
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment13
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan13
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps13
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse13
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil13
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing13
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks13
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right13
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities13
Beyond accessibility: Exploring digital inclusivity in US progressive politics13
Guy next door and implausibly attractive young women: The visual frames of social media propaganda13
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China13
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders13
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services13
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media13
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data12
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms12
Social capital in video game studies: A scoping review12
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities12
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis12
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft12
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort12
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram12
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem12
Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections12
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality12
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries12
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine12
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding12
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam12
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media11
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system11
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan11
‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies11
‘How do I become blue pilled?’: Masculine ontological insecurity on 4chan’s advice board11
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States11
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital11
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios11
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches11
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
Editor’s introduction11
Book Review: Instagram: Visual social media cultures11
Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism11
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test11
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees11
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes11
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines11
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey11
Editorial11
Which recommendation system do you trust the most? Exploring the impact of perceived anthropomorphism on recommendation system trust, choice confidence, and information disclosure11
Digital ventriloquism and celebrity access: Cameo and the emergence of paid puppeteering on digital platforms11
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence11
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?11
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms11
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic11
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom11
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari11
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping11
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media11
Digital communication and social support for disadvantaged youth: A social network survey of youth experiencing homelessness10
IQ and digital inequality: An empirical investigation10
The “algorithmic as if ”: Computational resurrection and the animation of the dead in Deep Nostalgia10
Longitudinal effects of cyberbullying at work on well-being and strain: A five-wave survey study10
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts10
The city without qualities: Inventing urban computing10
The usefulness of open events: Navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups10
The theoretical wedding of computational propaganda and information operations: Unraveling digital manipulation in conflict zones10
Book Reviews: Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate Luke Munn10
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots10
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible10
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems10
Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub: Selective firm cooperation, volunteer-employee labour and participation inequality10
Child idols in South Korea and beyond: Manufacturing young stars at the intersection of the K-pop and influencer industries10
Book Review: Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society10
What about this blockchain thing?10
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida10
Humour and Comedy in Digital Game Live Streaming10
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages10
Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok10
Book Review: Social media and everyday life in South Africa10
Reviewer Acknowledgements10
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