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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue180
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum152
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels129
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research124
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital108
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 Norway107
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children104
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition77
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code69
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls68
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source57
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter56
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers55
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter54
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–202053
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis53
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network51
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown47
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 community44
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization44
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol44
Algorithms as complementary abstractions43
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms42
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning41
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains39
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code38
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness38
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure37
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview35
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups35
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system35
Book Review: Social Media and Hate35
A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia34
Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat34
Doing gender in game spaces: Transgender and non-binary players’ gender signaling strategies in online games34
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking33
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment32
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review32
#MeToo on Twitter: The migration of celebrity capital and social capital in online celebrity advocacy32
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship31
“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities31
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media31
How social media users become misinformed: The roles of news-finds-me perception and misinformation exposure in COVID-19 misperception31
Reviewer acknowledgements for volume 2330
Book Review: Digital Media Ethics30
Book Review: Vidding: A History30
Digital twins as space media29
Regimes of justification in the datafied workplace: The case of hiring29
Algorithm dependency in platformized news use29
Book Reviews: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendations29
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section29
Individual factors of expected and unexpected sexting and the subsequent feelings: A nationally representative study in adolescents28
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity28
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms28
“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 market28
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy27
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media27
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry27
Radicalization or relief: Divergent impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on incels by seniority26
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 framework26
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices25
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok25
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use25
‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context24
The influence of the deliberative quality of user comments on the number and quality of their reply comments24
جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English24
“Track every move”: Analyzing developers’ privacy discourse in GitHub README files23
Creating the beta-infrastructure: Facial recognition terminals and social management during and after COVID-19 in China23
From prejudice to marginalization: Tracing the forms of online hate speech targeting LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities23
Connecting in-game performance, need satisfaction, and psychological well-being: A comparison of older and younger players in World of Tanks23
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps23
Governance dynamics in online communities: Autonomy, control, and sense of virtual community23
Book Review: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence22
Book Review: Streaming Culture: Subscription Platforms and the Unending Consumption of Culture22
Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry22
Book Review: Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences22
Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?21
Social media regulation, third-person effect, and public views: A comparative study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico21
Book Review: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt21
Civilizing social media: The effect of geolocation on the incivility of news comments21
Behind the lab coat: How scientists’ self-disclosure on Twitter influences source perceptions, tweet engagement, and scientific attitudes through social presence21
Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media20
Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong20
‘Endorsing a dictatorship and getting paid for it’: Discursive struggles over intimacy and authenticity in the politicisation of influencer collaborations20
Misinformation rules!? Could “group rules” reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?20
Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs20
Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public20
Unpacking news engagement through the perceived affordances of social media: A cross-platform, cross-country approach20
Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing19
Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes19
Book Reviews: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News19
Rationalisation of the news: How AI reshapes and retools the gatekeeping processes of news organisations in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany19
‘Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online18
The continuity principle of digital remains18
Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games18
‘I’m not the same person now’: The psychological implications of online contact risk experiences for adults with intellectual disabilities18
“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities18
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
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media18
Finding a rhythm: The mediality of researching digital skill as process18
Never-married single adults’ experiences with online dating websites and mobile applications: A qualitative content analysis18
Ethical inclusion of children in sensitive research: A four-dimensional model18
“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic17
News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media17
Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being17
Time to BeReal! Exploring users’ well-being in relation to BeReal use duration17
Narrative authority in online video: Legacy media and digital native production styles17
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes17
Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes17
Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability contexts16
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination16
Work it baby! A survey study to investigate the role of underaged children and privacy management strategies within parent influencer content16
Culture machine: How MetaCLIP codifies culture16
Mind ascribed to AI and the appreciation of AI-generated art16
Individual and collective coping with racial discrimination: What drives social media activism among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 outbreak16
The interweaving functions of entertainment media: A cross-media study of Norwegian teens16
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic16
The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic?16
The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects15
Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions15
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda15
I see a double-edged sword: How self-other perceptual gaps predict public attitudes toward ChatGPT regulations and literacy interventions15
Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation: A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions15
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers15
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes15
Welfare service centers: Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state15
Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media15
Book Review: The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence15
“A friend who knows what they’re talking about”: Extending source credibility theory to analyze the wellness influencer industry on Instagram15
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review15
Demystifying Schadenfreude: How disposition theorizing explains responses to social media stories of unvaccinated COVID-19 deaths15
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
Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy management14
A board of one’s own: Interviewing the anonymous female imageboard community14
Regimes of recognition on algorithmic media14
Book Review: On Black Media Philosophy14
Beyond accessibility: Exploring digital inclusivity in US progressive politics14
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika14
Mirror, mirror. . . disco ball? On dancing with algorithmic doubles-goers14
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
Editorial14
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
The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed14
Go big or go home: Examining the longitudinal relations between exposure to successful portrayals on social media and adolescents’ feelings of discrepancy14
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
Corporate constructions of bio-digital identity: DNA-based playlists and the mandate to “listen to your DNA”14
“Camping” or abortion? Polyvarience and coded language on social media14
Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities?14
User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube13
Happiest streaming platform on earth: The role of presumed influence in the parental control decision process13
‘Babies are a massive money spinner’: Data, reproductive labour and the commodification of pre-motherhood in fertility and pregnancy apps13
‘Everyday talk’ about working-from-home: How the affordances of Twitter enable ambient affiliation but constrain political talk13
Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse13
Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness13
Spreaders vs victims: The nuanced relationship between age and misinformation via FoMO and digital literacy in different cultures13
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture13
Algorithmic indifference: The dearth of news recommendations on TikTok13
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online13
Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan13
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing13
Dimensions of recognition through relational labour in erotic content creation in Brazil13
Book Review: Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment12
“Ready worker two”: Gendered labor regime of platform-based game work in China12
How “the left” meme: Analyzing taboo in the Internet memes of r/DankLeft12
Behold the metaverse: Facebook’s Meta imaginary and the circulation of elite discourse12
The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self12
Algorithmic policing: The datafication and categorization of everyday life in China’s pandemic technogovernance12
Book Review: Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality12
A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks12
Making everything ac-count-able: The digital twinning paradigm12
Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities12
“TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders12
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement12
E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right12
Environmental activism in the platform society: Spatial agency in digital maps12
Information, identity, and action: The messages of the Dutch anti-vaccination community on Telegram12
Book Review: Personal But Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms12
Corrigendum to “Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok.”12
An audience perspective on the precarity of Black witnessing12
Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society11
Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?11
‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies11
Digital ventriloquism and celebrity access: Cameo and the emergence of paid puppeteering on digital platforms11
Silicon Valley revisited: On Californian ideologies and the differences they make11
Web3 and deep play: Blockchain gaming in the Global South11
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort11
Verified play, precarious work: GamerGate and platformed authenticity in the cultural industries11
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam11
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine11
Setting the misinformation agenda: Modeling COVID-19 narratives in Twitter communities11
“I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?”: Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence11
There is no such thing as a digital twin: Deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies in Dutch urban governance11
The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms11
How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors11
The online structure and development of posting behaviour in Dutch anti-vaccination groups on Telegram11
Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan11
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data11
Social capital in video game studies: A scoping review11
Editor’s introduction11
Book Review: The discursive construction of the modern political self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the age of social media11
QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic11
Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis11
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem11
Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services11
Interactive mediated contact on social media: Mechanisms and effects on attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees10
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey10
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible10
Making a global gig workers’ movement meaningful locally: Friction in activists’ everyday strategies10
Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping10
‘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
Media coverage and public attention to “fake news”: The moderating role of economic conditions and market-oriented media systems10
Book Review: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test10
Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes10
Longitudinal effects of cyberbullying at work on well-being and strain: A five-wave survey study10
Mobile phone repair in Ghana: Comparing three approaches10
“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts10
Internet access, place and belonging in the British asylum system10
Editorial10
Book Reviews: The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital10
Book Review: The Routledge handbook of translation and media10
Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism10
Cynical Nonpartisans: The Role of Misinformation in Political Cynicism During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
The “algorithmic as if ”: Computational resurrection and the animation of the dead in Deep Nostalgia10
From livelihood to livestream: Temporal opportunities of Chinese street vendors10
But is it for us? Rural Chinese elders’ perceptions, concerns, and physical preferences regarding social robots10
Which recommendation system do you trust the most? Exploring the impact of perceived anthropomorphism on recommendation system trust, choice confidence, and information disclosure10
A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages10
“We hate her . . . and you too”: Polarized intersectionality in Italy throughout changing political scenarios10
Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in UK higher education9
Child idols in South Korea and beyond: Manufacturing young stars at the intersection of the K-pop and influencer industries9
More platforms, less attention to news? A multi-platform analysis of news exposure across TV, web, and YouTube in the United States9
Growing out of overconnection: The process of dis/connecting among Norwegian and Portuguese teenagers9
Fact-checking misinformation on Chinese Social Media: Impact of corrections, awareness prompts, and legal warnings on endorsement9
No trade-offs between news and entertainment: Evidence from online engagement data9
User-generated “feminism” on BiliBili: Nationalism, Internet culture, and platform dynamics in digital China9
The theoretical wedding of computational propaganda and information operations: Unraveling digital manipulation in conflict zones9
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States9
The city without qualities: Inventing urban computing9
The moral license of a click: How social observability and impression management tendencies moderate the effects of online clicktivism on donation behavior9
Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok9
The expression of values on social media: An analytical framework9
Digital communication and social support for disadvantaged youth: A social network survey of youth experiencing homelessness9
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