New Media & Society

Article	Citations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform	139
Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance	105
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review	90
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19	85
Dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The role of political talk, cross-cutting exposure and social corrections	80
A systematic literature review on disinformation: Toward a unified taxonomical framework	80
The unedited public sphere	76
Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms	73
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation	67
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified	65
Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults: The warm experts’ perspective	63
Vulnerable populations and misinformation: A mixed-methods approach to underserved older adults’ online information assessment	62
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence	59
Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany	59
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review	56
The third digital divide and Bourdieu: Bidirectional conversion of economic, cultural, and social capital to (and from) digital capital among young people in Madrid	53
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited	53
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach	52
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective	52
Right-wing populism, social media and echo chambers in Western democracies	51
Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit	50
The limits of the imaginary: Challenges to intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithms	49
Temporal arbitrage, fragmented rush, and opportunistic behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy	49
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak	49
Oculus imaginaries: The promises and perils of Facebook’s virtual reality	46

Scientific and subversive: The two faces of the fourth era of political campaigning	44
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective	44
Anticipating and addressing the ethical implications of deepfakes in the context of elections	44
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors	42
Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response	42
Professional social media usage: Work engagement perspective	39
Twitter and Facebook: Populists’ double-barreled gun?	39
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries	38
Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument	36
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	36
Populism in the era of Twitter: How social media contextualized new insights into an old phenomenon	35
Hashtagging depression on Instagram: Towards a more inclusive mental health research methodology	34
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media	33
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social media	33
Digital well-being theory and research	32
Mediated trust: A theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators	32
Health-related fake news on social media platforms: A systematic literature review	32
Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem	32
Preparing for smart voice assistants: Cultural histories and media innovations	32
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness	32
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’	32
“Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable”: Biased definitions of sexual content in video game live streaming	31
Are you ready for artificial Mozart and Skrillex? An experiment testing expectancy violation theory and AI music	31
Facebook futures: Mark Zuckerberg’s discursive construction of a better world	31
The challenges of studying 4chan and the Alt-Right: ‘Come on in the water’s fine’	30
Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network	30
Content moderation: Social media’s sexist assemblages	30
From archive cultures to ephemeral content, and back: Studying Instagram Stories with digital methods	30
A question of perspective: Exploring audiences’ views of journalistic boundaries	29
Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms	29
In(cel)doctrination: How technologically facilitated misogyny moves violence off screens and on to streets	29
From observation on social media to offline political participation: The social media affordances approach	29
Social media literacy: A conceptual framework	29
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities	28
Perceptions of mis- or disinformation exposure predict political cynicism: Evidence from a two-wave survey during the 2018 US midterm elections	28
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia	28
Participatory branding on social media: The affordances of live streaming for creative labor	28
Incidental news exposure via social media and political participation: Evidence of reciprocal effects	26
‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey	26
Recovering critique in an age of datafication	26
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward COVID-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States	26
“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries	25
Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots	25
Witnessing Eva Stories: Media witnessing and self-inscription in social media memory	25
Telling lies together? Sharing news as a form of social authentication	25
Social media, rituals, and long-distance family relationship maintenance: A mixed-methods systematic review	25
Filtering feminisms: Emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram	24
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research	24
Metaphors in moderation	24
‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab	24

Using social media images as data in social science research	23
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter	23
What do others’ reactions to body posting on Instagram tell us? The effects of social media comments on viewers’ body image perception	23
Rethinking the digital democratic affordance and its impact on political representation: Toward a new framework	23
Gender moderation and moderating gender: Sexual content policies in Twitch’s community guidelines	23
Hot air and corporate sociotechnical imaginaries: Performing and translating digital futures in the Danish tech scene	23
Data and oil: Metaphor, materiality and metabolic rifts	23
Does online incivility cancel out the spiral of silence? A moderated mediation model of willingness to speak out	23
Enhanced self-regulation: The case of Facebook’s content governance	23
Greta Thunberg’s iconicity: Performance and co-performance in the social media ecology	22
From parasocial to parakin: Co-creating idols on social media	22
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships	22
Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship	21
Navigating the maze: Deepfakes, cognitive ability, and social media news skepticism	21
“I do it my way”: Idioms of practice and digital media ideologies of adolescents and older adults	21
Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users’ feelings for out-group parties	21
The right-time web: Theorizing the kairologic of algorithmic media	20
Engagement with candidate posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the 2019 election	20
I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots	20
The commodification of time and memory: Online communities and the dynamics of commercially produced nostalgia	19
The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the Internet’s cute economy	19
Clickbait news and algorithmic curation: A game theory framework of the relation between journalism, users, and platforms	19
Vulnerability in a tracked society: Combining tracking and survey data to understand who gets targeted with what content	19
Only “sheep” trust journalists? How citizens’ self-perceptions shape their approach to news	19
The year of the “virtual date”: Reimagining dating app affordances during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation	19
“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game spectatorship	19
Platform enclosure of human behavior and its measurement: Using behavioral trace data against platform episteme	19
Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies	19
Trans-mediated parasocial relationships: Private Facebook groups foster influencer–follower connection	18
What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data	18
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice”: Examining feminist digital activism in the Indian #MeToo movement	18
Populist ideas on social media: A dictionary-based measurement of populist communication	18
A future so close: Mapping 10 years of promises and futures across the augmented reality development cycle	18
Examining augmented reality in journalism: Presence, knowledge gain, and perceived visual authenticity	18
Examining the impact of daily exposure to body-positive and fitspiration Instagram content on young women’s mood and body image: An intensive longitudinal study	18
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review	18
‘Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere	18
A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages	17
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict	17
Digital inequality in Finland: Access, skills and attitudes as social impact mediators	17
Effects of immersive storytelling on affective, cognitive, and associative empathy: The mediating role of presence	17
Influence of the pandemic lockdown on Fridays for Future’s hashtag activism	17
Digital omnivores? How digital media reinforce social inequalities in cultural consumption	17
Predicting problematic smartphone use over time in adolescence: A latent class regression analysis of online and offline activities	17
Hidden youth? A new perspective on the sociality of young people ‘withdrawn’ in the bedroom in a digital age	17
Perceiving online public opinion: The impact of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, and source credibility on speaking out	17
Not only people are getting old, the new media are too: Technology generations and the changes in new media use	16
Anticipatory news infrastructures: Seeing journalism’s expectations of future publics in its sociotechnical systems	16
Games-as-a-service: Conflicted identities on the new front-line of video game development	16
Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan	16
Newly minted: Non-fungible tokens and the commodification of fandom	16
YouTube as my space: The relationships between YouTube, social connectedness, and (collective) self-esteem among LGBTQ individuals	16
Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy	16
The return of the social: Algorithmic identity in an age of symbolic demise	16
Going online on behalf of someone else: Characteristics of Internet users who act as proxy users	16
Voices of the unsung: The role of social presence and interactivity in building empathy in 360 video	15
We are what we click: Understanding time and content-based habits of online news readers	15
“They were having so much fun, so genuinely . . .”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity	15
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
The management of LGBTQ+ identities on social media: A student perspective	15
‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube	15
Backdoor advertising scandals, Yingyeo culture, and cancel culture among YouTube Influencers in South Korea	15
Going with the flow: Nudging attention online	15
“This is not how we imagined it”: Technological affordances, economic drivers, and the Internet architecture imaginary	15
Does distrust in humans predict greater trust in AI? Role of individual differences in user responses to content moderation	15
Gamblification: A definition	15
“Backstage moments during the campaign”: The interactive use of Instagram by Spanish political leaders	14
Gamification and work games: Examining consent and resistance among Uber drivers	14
The emergence of creative and digital place-making: A scoping review across disciplines	14
Techno-capital: Theorizing media and information literacy through information technology capabilities	14
(In)visible moderation: A digital ethnography of marginalized users and content moderation on Twitch and Reddit	14
Too human and not human enough: A grounded theory analysis of mental health harms from emotional dependence on the social chatbot Replika	14
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work	14
Activist memory narration on social media: Armenian genocide on Instagram	14
A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms	14
Speaking up or staying silent? Examining the influences of censorship and behavioral contagion on opinion (non-) expression in China	14
Unlocking the payment experience: Future imaginaries in the case of digital payments	14

Standing on the shoulders of tech giants: Media delivery, streaming television and the rise of global suppliers	14
‘The metaverse and how we’ll build it’: The political economy of Meta’s Reality Labs	14
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use	14
The rise of Instagram as a tool for political communication: A longitudinal study of European political parties and their followers	14
A snap of your true self: How self-presentation and temporal affordance influence self-concept on social media	14
Beyond positive or negative: Understanding the phenomenology, typologies and impact of incidental news exposure on citizens’ daily lives	14
Social media use and family connectedness: A systematic review of quantitative literature	13
Is sexting bad for adolescent girls’ psychological well-being? A longitudinal assessment in middle to late adolescence	13
Facebook confessions: Corporate abdication and Silicon Valley dystopianism	13
Character assassination as a right-wing populist communication tactic on social media: The case of Matteo Salvini in Italy	13
Understanding the social in a digital age	13
Exploring the learning potential of online gaming communities: An application of the Game Communities of Inquiry Scale	13
Ingestible sensors, data, and pharmaceuticals: Subjectivity in the era of digital mental health	13
Constraining context: Situating datafication in public administration	13
How social media users perceive different forms of online hate speech: A qualitative multi-method study	13
Datafication research: Mapping the field for a future agenda	13
A softer kind of hard news? Data journalism and the digital renewal of public service news in Sweden	13
Symbolic annihilation through design: Pregnancy loss in pregnancy-related mobile apps	13
Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities	13
Putting the “Me” in endorsement: Understanding and conceptualizing dimensions of self-endorsement using intelligent personal assistants	12
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox	12
Betting on DOTA 2’s Battle Pass: Gamblification and productivity in play	12
Doing time, the smart way? Temporalities of the smart prison	12
Why settle when there are plenty of fish in the sea? Rusbult’s investment model applied to online dating	12
Automated decision-making, digital inclusion and intersectional disabilities	12
Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms	12
Human evaluations of machine translation in an ethically charged situation	12
Navigating ambiguous negativity: A case study of Twitch.tv live chats	12
Policing “Fake” Femininity: Authenticity, Accountability, and Influencer Antifandom	12
Fighting biased news diets: Using news media literacy interventions to stimulate online cross-cutting media exposure patterns	12
The posthumous privacy paradox: Privacy preferences and behavior regarding digital remains	12
More diverse, more politically varied: How social media, search engines and aggregators shape news repertoires in the United Kingdom	12
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam	12
The construction and mobilization of political consumerism through digital media in a networked social movement	12
Can we blame social media for polarization? Counter-evidence against filter bubble claims during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Political implications of disconnection on social media: A study of politically motivated unfriending	12
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites	12
Social media and connective action: The case of the Saudi women’s movement for the right to drive	12
The growing field of interdisciplinary research on user comments: A computational scoping review	11
Hetero-sexting as mediated intimacy work: ‘Putting something on the line’	11
Platform drama: “Cancel culture,” celebrity, and the struggle for accountability on YouTube	11
Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps	11
Online bandwagon effects: Quantitative versus qualitative cues in online comments sections	11
The knowledge gap on social media: Examining roles of engagement and networks	11
Picturing the pipeline: Mapping settler colonialism on Instagram	11
Practical knowledge of algorithms: The case of BreadTube	11
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible	11
Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact	11
The alt-right digital migration: A heterogeneous engineering approach to social media platform branding	11
Returning to the digital world: Digital technology use and privacy management of women transitioning from incarceration	11
Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube	11
Engagement at the margins: Investigating how marginalized teens use digital media for political participation	11
Asymmetric adjustment: Partisanship and correcting misinformation on Facebook	11
I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene	11
Datafied times: Surveillance capitalism, data technologies and the social construction of time in family life	11
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management	11
When news media and social media meet: How Facebook users reacted to news stories about a supermarket plastic bag ban	11
Making, managing and experiencing ‘the now’: Digital media and the compression and pacing of ‘real-time’	11
Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter	11
Digital intermediation: Unseen infrastructures for cultural production	11
Participatory censorship: How online fandom community facilitates authoritarian rule	10
Authoritarian downgrading, (self)censorship and new media activism after the Arab Spring	10
Snapchat lenses and body image concerns	10
Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion	10
Popular music reaction videos: Reactivity, creator labor, and the performance of listening online	10
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines	10
Visions of unification and integration: Building brains and communities in the European Human Brain Project	10
Online social engagement, depression, and anxiety among older adults	10
Digital pruning: Agency and social media use as a personal political project among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders	10
Game on! A randomised controlled trial evaluation of playable technology in improving body satisfaction and negative affect among adolescents	10
Virtual reality perspective-taking at scale: Effect of avatar representation, choice, and head movement on prosocial behaviors	10
The emotive politics of digital mood tracking	10
Communication privacy management for smart speaker use: Integrating the role of privacy self-efficacy and the multidimensional view	10
The cruel optimism of “good crunch”: How game industry discourses perpetuate unsustainable labor practices	10
Direct and indirect relationships between social media use and body satisfaction: A prospective study among adolescent boys and girls	10
Playing platformized language games: Social media logic and the mutation of participatory cultures in Chinese online fandom	10
No one-size-fits-all! Eight profiles of digital inequalities for customized inclusion strategies	10
The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban	10
Resilience and vulnerability: Emotional and affective labour in mom blogging	10
Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data, and temporalities—An introduction to the special issue	10
Explaining inequalities in vulnerable children’s digital skills: The effect of individual and social discrimination	10
Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age: Theorizing critical digital literacy and civic engagement	10
Is it all about storytelling? Living and learning hereditary cancer on Twitter	10
Pre-service teachers’ insights on data agency	10
Birthdays, anniversaries, and temporalities: Or how the past is represented as relevant through on-this-date media	10
Who gets lost? How digital academic reading impacts equal opportunity in higher education	10
Cultural production and platform mediation: A case in music crowdfunding	9
Experiencing organ failure in virtual reality: Effects of self- versus other-embodied perspective taking on empathy and prosocial outcomes	9
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital	9
Partisan media, untrustworthy news sites, and political misperceptions	9
Picture-perfect populism: Tracing the rise of European populist parties on Facebook	9
Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect	9
From pre-emption to slowness: Assessing the contrasting temporalities of data-driven predictive policing	9
Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context	9
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada	9