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“Not only a key resource for keeping up to date in this fast-moving field, this journal is proving a vital resource for wide-ranging, insightful analyses of the social contexts and consequences of new information and communication technologies.” Sonia Livingstone
New Media & Society is an international journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change.
New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.
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- by Daniel Calderón-Gómez, Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura RuiuNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article examines children’s digital experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic as a specific aspect of digital divide. Utilizing a survey of 2004 English parents aged 20–55 years, the study explores how various factors – including household living …
- by Philipp MüllerUniversity of Mannheim, GermanyNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Public communication change (PCC) is often studied in communication research with a somewhat narrow conceptual focus, for instance, either on the contingency or on the determination of communication development. I argue that instead of considering the …
- by Lidia Marôpo, Ana Jorge, Bárbara Janiques de Carvalho, Filipa NetoNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article considers how children’s memeability is entangled with commercial sharenting narratives through two case studies of (mothers) influencers and their daughters in Brazil and Portugal. The Brazilian mother privileges cute aesthetics by …
- by Junki Nakahara, Jing CaiNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This study examines how digital nationalism distorts the articulation of feminism on China’s popular video-sharing platform, BiliBili. Through a discourse analysis of the 100 most-viewed user-generated videos tagged with “feminism” (nüquan), we find that …
- Catch 22: Institutional ethics and researcher welfare within online extremism and terrorism researchby Joe Whittaker, Elizabeth Pearson, Ashley A Mattheis, Till Baaken, Sara Zeiger, Farangiz Atamuradova, Maura ConwayNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Drawing from interviews with 39 online extremism and terrorism researchers, this article provides an empirical analysis of these researchers’ experiences with institutional ethics processes. Discussed are the harms that these researchers face in the …
- by Joanne Kuai, Cornelia Brantner, Michael Karlsson, Elizabeth Van Couvering, Salvatore RomanoNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the performance of search engine chatbots powered by large language models in generative political information retrieval. Applying algorithmic accountability as a central theme, this research (a) assesses the alignment of …
- by Bingqing Xia, Tongyu WuNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. The rapid advancement of AI has led to increased reliance on data labeling workers, yet those with disabilities remain understudied in this context. This article applies critical disability studies and theory of accumulation by dispossession to analyze …
- by Mariana ManriquezThe University of Arizona, USANew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article delves into the process of technological adaptation to local environments by presenting the case of food delivery platforms in Mexico City. Primarily, it focuses on the tension between design and local economic practices. Given the primacy of …
- by Robert Sparrow, Ellen Y ZhangNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Veneration of paternal ancestors plays an important role in Chinese tradition. In this article, we offer some speculations about how a new ‘thanatechnology’ – digital personality emulation – may impact on ancestor worship. We explore the ethical issues …
- by Jaroslava Kaňková, Anja Stevic, Alice Binder, Jörg MatthesNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. The mobile app BeReal, launched in 2020, has gained popularity for its emphasis on authenticity, spontaneity, and real-time daily interactions with close ties, earning it the label of “anti-Instagram.” However, empirical evidence on its relationship with …
- by Astrid Van den Bossche, Jelena Brankovic, Morten HansenNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Rankings are a well-established genre for evaluating diverse phenomena, yet culturally resonant critiques of them are relatively rare. This paper examines how student vloggers on YouTube challenge and reinterpret university rankings through ‘tier list’ …
- by Rachel Ricucci, Grant BlankNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Platforms have disintermediated the markets for books, film, television, and music, but the online art market has reproduced offline structures, leaving intermediaries intact. This study explores the limits of platforms by describing why disintermediation …
- by Daniel McFarlane, Yannik Mieruch, Tony WatersNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article examines emergent communities of platform-based delivery workers in Bangkok by applying Max Weber’s concept ofVergemeinschaftungor ‘doing community’. Using offline and online ethnographic methods, the authors demonstrate how delivery …
- by Maya Livio, Natalia Sánchez-QuerubínNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Nonhuman life is increasingly analyzed and acted upon through big data and AI tools. Birds in particular are among the most datafied wild beings. However, avian—like human—data sets present challenges of bias, misclassification, and harmful collection …
- by Kilian Buehling, Xixuan Zhang, Annett HeftNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Digital communication venues are essential infrastructures for anti-democratic actors to spread harmful content such as conspiracy theories. Capitalizing on platform affordances, they leverage conspiracy theories to mainstream their political views in …
- by Hunter Akridge, Alex Ahmed, Free S Bàssïbét, Magally A Miranda Alcázar, Sarah FoxNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Domestic workers have long been marginalized, even as they are made hypervisible to their employers. This is a process increasingly augmented by digital technologies. These technologies include care platforms, which have increasingly mediated the process …
- by Ana Alacovska, Christian Fieseler, Victor Renza AvellanedaNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article investigates – based on semi-structured interviews and conversations on cryptoart forums – how digital artists experience the blockchain-enabled assetization of their work through non-fungible tokens, including the transformation of digital …
- by Elisabeth Van den Abeele, Liselot Hudders, Ini VanwesenbeeckNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Given the number of identified risks associated with influencer sharenting, momfluencers are increasingly adopting a more mindful approach to sharing information about their children online. Prior qualitative research suggests that followers respond …
- by Tamar AshuriNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. In recent years, public institutions have turned to data-driven firms for solutions to the many complex operational challenges they face. This study explores the growing ties between public institutions and data-driven firms by focusing on the case of the …
- by Sara Reinis, Corrina LaughlinNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article employs Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) to analyze the affective public surrounding the hashtag #christiantiktok. We find that “Christian TikTok” discursively negotiates the unpredictable visibility affordances of TikTok’s …