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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 Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Ryan Stoldt, Javie Ssozie, Kathryn Biddle, Brian Ekdale, Tim HavensNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Links between extremism online and personalization algorithms are, by now, widely accepted. However, discussions surrounding sociopolitical radicalization and its relationship to filter bubbles often fail to account for user agency. Based on interview (N=…
- by Yixi Yang, Mark CJ StoddartNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Drawing on Reinforcing Spirals Model theory and longitudinal network analysis methods, we analyse the co-evolution of climate change communication network and online expressive participation around climate policy issues on China’s top social media …
- by Steve Jankowski, Claudio Celis Bueno, Ouejdane Sabbah, Jakko KemperNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article examines how Wikipedians embed their sovereign authority within the development of the site’s multilingual policy environment. By drawing on the concepts of cultural techniques, imagined affordances, and online authority, the edits and …
- by Luke Munn, Adarsh BadriNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. How is the cultural made computational? CLIP models are a recent artificial intelligence (AI) innovation which train on massive amounts of Internet data in order to align language and image, deploying this ‘grasp’ of cultural concepts to understand …
- by Yi Xu, Jiahe Wang, Zili ChenNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This study examines how youngDouyinusers navigate algorithm-driven short video platforms, emphasizing their sense of agency (SoA) in shaping engagement strategies. Based on in-depth interviews with 25 users, we identified four engagement statuses—High …
- by Ting He, Colin AgurNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This study examines the management of affective labor on E-Pal, a US-based gaming freelancer platform where gig workers provide companionship and intimacy to clients during gaming. Based on interviews with 27 workers, the research reveals that E-Pal …
- by Lion Wedel, Linda CoufalNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Incels (involuntary celibates) base their identity on the inability to form romantic relationships. We conceptualize the ideology promoted by incels as misogynist extremism and explore the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on the radicalization of …
- by Mathilda Åkerlund, Jesper StrömbäckNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Sweden has increasingly come into international far right focus, and digital media sites in the United States have proven especially active in spreading mis- and disinformative narratives about the country. Using social network analysis and descriptive …
- by Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Lili R Romann, Isabella Witkowich, Jiayi ChenNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. All mainstream social media platforms now use algorithms to display recommended content, and some (e.g. Instagram, LinkedIn) have started showing what we callalgorithmic transparency cuesabout why certain posts are recommended. However, little is known …
- by Andrea Ceron, Alessio ScopellitiNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Fake news represents a threat to our society since people can face unverified and sensational information. News media can play a crucial role in disclosing and correcting misinformation. This paper argues that higher media coverage can anticipate an …
- by Marika LüdersUniversity of Oslo, NorwayNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Media entertainment today extends beyond conventional formats like TV shows, music, films, video games, and books to include social media content. This article explores how teens integrate conventional and social media entertainment into their media …
- by Giulia Campaioli, Adriano Zamperini, Marta CecchinatoNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Mobile dating apps (MDA) are popular for intimate encounters, but romantic rejection is common, and can drive surveillance using information from social media. Awareness cues convey digital information about others’ activities, but their link with …
- by Pengyun Lu, Zhiling GuoNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Self-media entrepreneurs from marginalised communities face unique challenges in the rapidly evolving global creative industries. This study examines the lived experiences of Deaf creators on Douyin, China’s leading short-video platform, highlighting how …
- by Julia Coffey, Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai, Rosalind Gill, Niamh WhiteNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Selfie-editing technologies (including in-phone editing tools, filters, and apps like Facetune) provide the ability digitally edit and “enhance” facial and body features in photos. This article extends a theorization of “the virtual” developing from …
- by Nils Gustafsson, Anders Olof LarssonNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Democracy festivals are events that aim to strengthen democracy by engaging citizens, politicians and organisations in dialogue and provide a more equal access to the agenda. In recent years, social media have become important arenas for agenda building, …
- by Angie Lee, Te-Lin Doreen Chung, Olivia JohnsonNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Recently, social media influencers have promoted social campaigns and movements, contributing to heightened interest and concern among the public about social causes. This study explores influencers’ social cause communication to understand message …
- by Emilija Jokubauskaitė, Stijn PeetersNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Webcam sex platforms represent an important sector of the creator economy. Yet, there is a great scarcity of research on revenue flows and performer income. To address this, we collected and analyzed a dataset comprising 2 weeks of tips received by …
- by David Elliot BermanNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. To labor in platform capitalism is to optimize. Based on 66 semi-structured interviews conducted over 8 years with data scientists, software engineers, and content creators at BuzzFeed and Upworthy, this article conceptualizes optimization as a mode of …
- by Milica Stilinovic, Francesco Bailo, Jonathon HutchinsonNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article introduces the concept of the Undersphere – a networked community brought together via creative exchange – to highlight how the increased proliferation of Generative AI poses risks not yet acknowledged by policymakers within emerging AI …
- by Amanda D Lotz, Gabriela LunardiNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. The affordances of Internet distribution have substantially expanded the array of video that is part of the everyday video cultures of many across the globe. Scholarly frames now need to integrate “hosted video” – video distributed without licensing …