New Media & Society

Papers
(The TQCC of New Media & Society is 8. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians147
Historical figures on Instagram: A typology of themes and modes of representation125
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era99
Sowing “seeds of doubt”: Cottage industries of election and medical misinformation in Brazil and the United States92
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing89
The production of destruction: How employee values shape platform afterlives79
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness78
What does it mean to “do your own research?” A comparative content analysis of DYOR messages in Instagram and Facebook posts about reproductive health, food, and vaccines77
Exploring older adults’ ICT support: A mismatch between needs and provision75
mHealth and social mediation: Mobile support among stigmatized people living with HIV and substance use disorder67
Conceptualizing social media sub-platforms: The case of mourning and memorialization practices on Facebook66
Book Reviews: Automation is a myth59
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum53
Interpretive communities of resistance: Emerging counterpublics of immigration alarmism on social media50
High-speed broadband availability, Internet activity among older people, quality of life and loneliness49
Aging differently: How socioemotional reactions to perceived remaining time in life influence older adults’ satisfaction in virtual communities48
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children48
Monopolization and competition under platform capitalism: Analyzing transformations in the computing industry47
Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect46
The computational turn in online mental health research: A systematic review46
Who relates to whom and according to which rationale? Visibility and advocacy in the Ugandan LGBT+ Twittersphere45
Taking back and giving back on TikTok: Algorithmic mutual aid in the platform economy44
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis44
The whole earth and apartheid: Media, peer-production, segregation42
(Re)animating the ancestors: Digital personality emulations, ancestor veneration and ethics40
QR codes and automated decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic40
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers38
Road to micro-celebration: The role of mutation strategy of micro-celebrity in digital media38
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community38
The effects of augmented reality on prosocial behavior intentions in the disaster news context: The mediating role of physical presence and empathy37
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter36
Nomadic life archiving across platforms: Hyperlinked storage and compartmentalized sharing34
When friction becomes the norm: Antagonism, discourse and planetary data turbulence34
‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’: Vloggers and genre remediation33
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort33
Culturally centring digital inclusion and marginality: A case study in Aotearoa New Zealand32
A longitudinal examination of Internet users’ privacy protection behaviors in relation to their perceived collective value of privacy and individual privacy concerns31
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition31
Disinformation on digital media platforms: A market-shaping approach31
Digital heuristics: How parties strategize political communication in hybrid media environments31
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue31
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine31
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels30
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network30
Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic30
Classified children: A critical analysis of the digital interfaces and representations that mediate adoption in the United States30
Introduction to geomedia histories29
Lurking as literacy practice: A uses and gratifications study in neighborhood Facebook groups29
Picture me in person: Personalization and emotionalization as political campaign strategies on social media in the German federal election period 202129
Co-operative aerial images: A geomedia history of the view from above28
Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections28
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries28
“I’m not this Person”: Racism, content moderators, and protecting and denying voice online28
We are all (not) Anonymous: Individual- and country-level correlates of support for and opposition to hacktivism28
Anticipated affordances: Understanding early reactions to new technologies28
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada28
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms28
Unpacking the network dynamics of online political discussions: Stochastic actor-oriented modeling with political/sociopsychological/linguistic factors27
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic27
The role of news media knowledge for how people use social media for news in five countries26
Book Review: Cultural Analytics26
Algorithmic media use and algorithm literacy: An integrative literature review26
Peripheral creator labor: Navigating regional marginalization and resistance in social media entertainment25
Convenient efficiency: A media genealogy of QR codes25
Pre-service teachers’ insights on data agency25
Exploring subjective sociocultural understandings of “fear of missing out” (FoMO) and the unsettled self in a time of deep mediatization24
An institutional perspective to bridging the divide: The case of Somali women refugees fostering digital inclusion in the volatile context of urban Kenya24
Speculative labour: The financialized imagination of creative work and the assetization of digital art through non-fungible tokens (NFTs)24
Morality in social media: A scoping review24
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram24
Framing Indigenous protest in the online public sphere: A comparative frame analysis23
Social capital in video game studies: A scoping review23
Deadpan humour, the comic disposition and the interpretation of ironic ambiguity online23
Immaterial intimacy: The neoliberal entanglement of digital technologies in social movement volunteer work23
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality23
A critical appraisal of diversity in digital knowledge production: Segregated inclusion on YouTube22
The platformization of music production: How digital audio workstations are turned into platforms of labor market relations21
Do people believe in misleading information disseminated via memes? The role of identity and anger21
(How) did self-rated health status shape Internet use among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?21
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research21
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft21
Subverted agency: The dilemmas of disempowerment in digital practices21
Investigating longitudinal and bidirectional relationships between parental factors and time spent on social media during early adolescence21
Mediated by the giants: Tracing practices, discourses, and mediators of platform isomorphism in a media organization21
Is it better to strike a balance? How exposure to congruent and incongruent opinion climates on social networking sites impacts users’ processing and selection of information21
Platform affordances, discursive opportunities, and social media activism: A cross-platform analysis of #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, 2017–202020
Rohingya diaspora online: Mapping the spaces of visibility, resistance and transnational identity on social media20
Countering underproduction of peer produced goods20
Data and/as activism: Community-based racial justice data repertoires20
Algorithms as complementary abstractions19
Beyond ownership: Human–robot relationships between property and personhood19
How digital devices transform literary reading: The impact of e-books, audiobooks and online life on reading habits19
The relationship between humanitarian NGO communication and user engagement on Twitter19
Mundane work for utopian ends: Freeing digital materials in peer production19
Making a complex story simple: The exclusion of social media from life stories19
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data19
Technology is a wish your heart makes: How Disney harnesses practical magic discourse to legitimize MyMagic+19
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning19
Examining the impact of digital information environments, information processing, and presumed influence on behavioral responses to COVID-19 misinformation in Asia18
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment18
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services18
How do transnational public spheres emerge? Comparing news and social media networks during the Madrid climate talks18
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code18
“Oh, you’re watching me”: Care workers’ experiences of surveillant assemblages on the platform and in the home18
From bliss to burden: An ethnographic inquiry into how social, material and individual obstacles to digital well-being shape everyday life18
Playing platformized language games: Social media logic and the mutation of participatory cultures in Chinese online fandom18
Mapping the transnational imaginary of social media genres18
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks18
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 Norway18
“Check this out! ”: Collective functions of instant messaging about media content17
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter17
Analyzing narrative contagion through digital storytelling in social media conversations: An AI-powered computational approach17
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code17
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source17
Structures that tilt: Understanding “toxic” behaviors in online gaming17
Beyond the ‘critical incident’: COVID-19, data journalism and the slow road to editorial automation in Australian newsrooms17
From individuals to emotional drones: Technology-driven change in the collective conditioning of intimacy17
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps17
Geek nostalgia: The reflective and restorative defence of white male geek culture17
The psychological influence of dating app matches: The more matches the merrier?17
Beyond dislike counts: How YouTube users react to the visibility of social cues17
Difficult heritage on social network sites: An integrative review16
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls16
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol16
The Pacific futures of subsea data centers16
The effect of positive and negative daily social media emotional experiences on older adults’ subjective age: Unveiling the negativity bias in WhatsApp groups15
How social media users perceive different forms of online hate speech: A qualitative multi-method study15
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities15
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding15
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms15
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms15
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities15
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?15
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization15
Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies14
Imagining permanence on the web: Tracing the meanings of long-term preservation among the subjects of web archives14
Visibility agents: Organizing transparency in the digital era14
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan14
Gamblification: A definition14
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam14
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains14
The power of predictability: How Angela Merkel constructed her authenticity on Instagram14
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital14
Emotional talk about robotic technologies on Reddit: Sentiment analysis of life domains, motives, and temporal themes14
Social media use of the police in crisis situations: A mixed-method study on communication practices of the German police14
Online social engagement, depression, and anxiety among older adults14
Debating (in) echo chambers: How culture shapes communication in conspiracy theory networks on YouTube14
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis14
The “greenfluence”: Following environmental influencers, parasocial relationships, and youth’s participation behavior13
Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok13
Social media platforms for politics: A comparison of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, and WhatsApp13
Be my boss: Migrant youth and the contradiction of hope labour on Kuaishou13
When is the right time to remember? Social media memories, temporality and the kairologic13
Enhancing social connectedness: How adults with vision impairment perceive and use social media in Nigeria13
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media13
Direct and indirect relationships between social media use and body satisfaction: A prospective study among adolescent boys and girls13
To move closer or farther away: Active domestication and limited role of using digital media by the visually impaired people in China13
Agenda-setting in social TV: How and when user comments influence perceived issue importance12
Do squeaky wheels get the grease? Understanding when and how municipalities respond to online requests12
Media framing and public support for China’s social credit system: An experimental study12
The influence of group membership on online expressions and polarization on a discussion platform: An experimental study12
Trust it or not: Understanding users’ motivations and strategies for assessing the credibility of AI-generated information12
Character assassination as a right-wing populist communication tactic on social media: The case of Matteo Salvini in Italy12
‘Neither work nor leisure’: Motivations of microworkers in the United Kingdom on three digital platforms12
Disinforming the unbiased: How online users experience and cope with dissonance after climate change disinformation exposure12
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy12
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts12
Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users’ feelings for out-group parties12
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry12
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey12
Book Review: Four internets: Data, geopolitics, and the governance of cyberspace12
Group-swinging as a strategic approach to curating multiple minority identities online: A study of lesbian gamers11
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics11
Living with television and the Internet11
Mobile netware, social graphs, and the reconfiguration of space11
Social media corporations as actors of counter-terrorism11
The effect of information seeking behaviour on trust in AI in Asia: The moderating role of misinformation concern11
Converging cultures of communication: A comparative study of Internet use in China, Europe, and the United States11
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2311
Experiencing organ failure in virtual reality: Effects of self- versus other-embodied perspective taking on empathy and prosocial outcomes11
Book Review: Hyperculture: Culture and globalization Byung-Chul Han11
Book Review: Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production: Critical Perspectives on Digital Platforms11
Book Reviews: Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms11
Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms11
‘How do I become blue pilled?’: Masculine ontological insecurity on 4chan’s advice board11
Anti-COVID = Anti-science? How protesters against COVID-19 measures appropriate science to navigate the information environment11
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches11
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom11
Hate prompts participation: Examining the dynamic relationship between affective polarization and political participation11
How to grow a transnational field: A network analysis of the global fact-checking movement11
The indirect effects of Instagram images on women’s self-esteem: The moderating roles of BMI and perceived weight10
Fact-checking, reputation, and political falsehoods in Italy and the United States10
Book Review: Instagram: Visual social media cultures10
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management10
All the lonely people: Effects of social isolation on self-disclosure of loneliness on Twitter10
Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms10
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media10
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
Human–AI communication in initial encounters: How AI agency affects trust, liking, and chat quality evaluation10
Book Reviews: Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Johann Hari10
Book Review: tumblr10
A study of web ecology: The use of trackers on pro science climate change and climate denier websites10
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society10
Book Reviews: Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis10
Red flags, sob stories, and scams: The contested meaning of governance on carework labor platforms10
Book Review: Vidding: A History10
Toward a multidimensional streaming: A thematic case study of two Twitch channels10
Book Review: All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists10
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media10
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations10
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media10
Can a self-regulation strategy help make social media more civil? Exploring the potential of mental contrasting with implementation intentions to reduce incivility in online political discussion10
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages9
Book Review: Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means9
Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps9
Book Review: The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Age9
Approximately in-person in the locked-down home: Approximation, digital ties and maternity amid the COVID-19 lockdown9
Belonging here and there: How social media affect the transnational lives of Spaniards in Iceland9
A convivial-agonistic framework to theorise public service media platforms and their governing systems9
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios9
The company you keep: Social network characteristics and political participation disparity among adolescents and young adults9
Smart Ellis Island? Tracing techniques of automating border control9
The shape of the cloud: Contesting date centre construction in North Holland9
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots9
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees9
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia9
Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism9
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat9
Serial mediation effects of ubiquity and notification on the relationship between habitual social media checking behaviors and self-control failures9
Corrigendum to “Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data”9
Mobile times and temporalities: Histories of geomediation of time9
Digital compensation: Smartphone use in the emotion socialisation of left-behind children in rural China9
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence9
Clickbait news and algorithmic curation: A game theory framework of the relation between journalism, users, and platforms9
Decolonizing the pocket monster: Smartphones, Pokémon Go and generational conflict in Malaysian Borneo9
“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 market9
Does Godwin’s law (rule of Nazi analogies) apply in observable reality? An empirical study of selected words in 199 million Reddit posts9
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States9
Networked Islamic counterpublic in China: Digital media and Chinese Muslims during global pandemic of COVID-199
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test9
Book Review: A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry9
Understanding the role of new media literacy in the diffusion of unverified information during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Amplification and the limits of visibility: Complicating strategies of trans voice and representations on social media9
Nextdoor use and support for aggressive policing8
The influencer-intellectual tactic and social media advertisements: How PragerU advances partisan knowledge8
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping8
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship8
An investigation of the relationship between social networking site activities and muscle dysmorphia in young men8
Algorithms, contexts, governance: An introduction to the special issue8
Editorial8
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