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 2021-11-01 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
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown45
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms45
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
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol42
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains39
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
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition38
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
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis36
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment35
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
Digital twins as space media34
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms34
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia33
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy33
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups33
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview32
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2331
Book Review: Vidding: A History31
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices31
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics31
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations31
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship31
The temporal logic of media practices: Mourning and the tooling of time on Facebook30
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception30
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media29
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy29
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 framework28
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use28
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking28
“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities28
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok28
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media28
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority28
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry27
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games26
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use26
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review26
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section26
Individual factors of expected and unexpected sexting and the subsequent feelings: A nationally representative study in adolescents26
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context25
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities25
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files25
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English25
Connecting in-game performance, need satisfaction, and psychological well-being: A comparison of older and younger players in World of Tanks24
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt24
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China24
Book Review: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence24
Governance dynamics in online communities: Autonomy, control, and sense of virtual community24
Rationalisation of the news: How AI reshapes and retools the gatekeeping processes of news organisations in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany23
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture23
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?23
Book Review: Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences23
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry22
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps22
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media22
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public22
Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong22
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments21
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico21
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?21
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach21
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes21
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence21
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments21
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs21
Warm experts among us: Conceptualising the challenges of informal digital support for older adults21
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content20
Isomorphism and assemblage: Developing legitimacy in the esports podcast ecosystem20
‘Endorsing a dictatorship and getting paid for it’: Discursive struggles over intimacy and authenticity in the politicisation of influencer collaborations20
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities20
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis20
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes20
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News20
A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism19
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens19
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture19
The continuity principle of digital remains19
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes19
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration19
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes19
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths19
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts19
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles18
Ethical inclusion of children in sensitive research: A four-dimensional model18
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online18
Me, myself, and the influencer: Examining how parasocial interaction and self-congruence with social media influencers affects news media trust18
“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic18
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art18
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
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process18
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being17
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing17
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram17
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media17
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games17
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects17
Individual and collective coping with racial discrimination: What drives social media activism among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak17
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed16
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community16
ChatGPT for cultural heritage and the customization of generative AI: A talkthrough analysis of the Luigi Einaudi chatbot16
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers16
Book Review: The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence16
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management16
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy16
From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection16
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions16
Erratum to ‘Google Maps review sub-platform: A narrative view of design, affordances, and user activity’16
Uses and effects of AR- and VR-based animal embodiment: A field study at a beach music festival16
Infrastructures by the users for users: Motivations, constraints, and consequences of user-driven infrastructuring of mobile phones16
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions16
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?16
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media16
Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change16
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika15
Mirror, mirror. . . disco ball? On dancing with algorithmic double-goers15
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions15
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”15
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures15
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda15
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?15
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media15
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram15
Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water15
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state15
Viral paradox: The intersection of “me too” and #MeToo15
Editorial15
Book Review: On Black Media Philosophy Armond RTowns, On Black Media Philosophy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022; xi + 242 pp.; ISBN 9780520355804, $29.00 (pbk)15
Contextualizing the ethics of algorithms: A socio-professional approach14
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders14
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse14
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk14
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 apps14
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok14
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube14
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media14
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process14
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture14
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right14
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China14
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online14
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil13
An interlude in navigation: Submarine signaling as a sonic geomedia infrastructure13
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan13
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms13
Making everything ac-count-able: The digital twinning paradigm13
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”13
An audience perspective on the precarity of Black witnessing13
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness13
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment13
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality13
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement13
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance13
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing13
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self13
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks13
Beyond accessibility: Exploring digital inclusivity in US progressive politics13
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps12
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam12
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data12
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?12
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram12
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft12
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors12
Web3 and deep play: Blockchain gaming in the Global South12
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities12
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine12
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan12
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries12
Silicon Valley revisited: On Californian ideologies and the differences they make12
Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis12
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services12
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms StefanieDuguay, Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on12
“On TikTok, everything needs to be playful, even the Holocaust!”: Playability, memes, and participatory memory culture12
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort12
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem12
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities12
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic12
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic12
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence11
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media11
Editorial11
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches11
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots11
Social capital in video game studies: A scoping review11
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey11
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media11
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems11
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible11
Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism11
Editor’s introduction11
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital11
‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies11
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios11
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari11
From livelihood to livestream: Temporal opportunities of Chinese street vendors11
Longitudinal effects of cyberbullying at work on well-being and strain: A five-wave survey study11
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test11
There is no such thing as a digital twin: Deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies in Dutch urban governance11
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system10
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States10
Mommy influencers: Helpful or harmful? The relationship between exposure to mommy influencers and perceived parental self-efficacy among mothers and primigravida10
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping10
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines10
Reviewer Acknowledgements10
Book Reviews: Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate Luke Munn10
What about this blockchain thing?10
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes10
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees10
‘How do I become blue pilled?’: Masculine ontological insecurity on 4chan’s advice board10
Which recommendation system do you trust the most? Exploring the impact of perceived anthropomorphism on recommendation system trust, choice confidence, and information disclosure10
Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in UK higher education10
The usefulness of open events: Navigating professional spaces of urban Meetups10
TikTok as a peer playground: Understanding how children in middle childhood use TikTok to shape their peer relations10
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages10
Making a global gig workers’ movement meaningful locally: Friction in activists’ everyday strategies10
The “algorithmic as if ”: Computational resurrection and the animation of the dead in Deep Nostalgia10
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
Humour and Comedy in Digital Game Live Streaming10
Book Review: Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society10
No trade-offs between news and entertainment: Evidence from online engagement data10
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts10
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