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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 Lorena CaminhasUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Maynooth University, IrelandNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Relational labour has become a critical concept for understanding the consequences of the ongoing relationship between creators and their audiences on social media. This article draws on this discussion to address Brazilian erotic content creators’ …
- by Clement Perarnaud, Francesca MusianiNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the development and deployment process of QUIC, a new standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is fostering momentous architectural change in the ways in which communication and data packets transport happens …
- by Darian Harff, Paula Stehr, Desiree SchmuckNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Social media influencers (SMIs) are ordinary people who rise to fame via social media. These individuals have repeatedly been labeled as opinion leaders, but often without in-depth theoretical reflection. We fill this gap by introducing a novel typology …
- by Dragoș M ObrejaNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. In recent years, gender scholars have begun to examine the various costs and benefits of hierarchically arranged femininities. These cultural ideals are particularly appealing in the context of growing digitally mediated interactions, as the symbolic and …
- by Noah KhanUniversity of Toronto, CanadaNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. The present paper examines the emotional labour of love in algorithmic romance, as represented by Replika, the world’s most popular artificial intelligence companion application, and its implications for ethical artificial intelligence development through …
- by Jiaojiao Ji, Xingling Qin, Christopher CalabreseNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the differential impacts of corrections, awareness prompts, and legal warnings on the endorsement of fact-checking information (through both “likes” and expressed support in associated comments) across three types of misinformation …
- by Eerik Soares Mantere, Iina Savolainen, Ilkka Vuorinen, Heli Hagfors, Jussi Palomäki, Atte OksanenNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This mixed-methods study examined various ways Internet-enabled factors may contribute to problem gambling. A four-wave longitudinal survey was collected at 6-month intervals from Finnish adults (N= 1530). Fixed-effects regression analyses were based on …
- The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020by Gilad Be’ery, Dmitry EpsteinNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Using data from the 2012–2020 European Social Survey and Schwartz’s theory of basic values, this article maps the values of tech-workers, in order to assess and understand their uniqueness and homogeneity. Consistent with prior, mostly US-focused research,…
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- by Mila Bujić, Anna-Leena Macey, Bojan Kerous, Oğuz Buruk, Juho HamariNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. Immersive multi-user virtual reality (VR) enables users to embody a first-person avatar and through them enact agency over their virtual self-representations and identities. Moreover, these visual representations can profoundly impact users’ thinking and …
- by David B Nieborg, Thomas PoellNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1909-1927, April 2025. This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relatively open mobile advertising ecosystem is nevertheless dominated by a handful of platform …
- by Kirsikka Grön, Minna Ruckenstein, Zhuo ChenNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1945-1961, April 2025. This article explores how the political–economic balancing of state interests and potential state intervention influences everyday perceptions of platform companies in China. We introduce the term “flexibility imaginary” to describe the adaptability and …
- by Jennifer Pybus, Mina MirNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1888-1908, April 2025. This article presents a novel methodology to examine the tracking infrastructures that extend datafication across a sample of 14 menopause-related applications. The Software Development Kit (SDK) Data Audit is a mixed methodology that explores how …
- by Kean Birch, Janja Komljenovic, Sam SellarNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1868-1887, April 2025. We outline the concept of ‘architectures of assetization’ as a way to get at the political-economic configuration of datafication in higher education through the layering of educational technology (‘edtech’) onto existing, legacy infrastructures. Edtech …
- by Sofie Flensburg, Signe Sophus Lai, Jacob ØrmenNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1928-1944, April 2025. This article asks how our capacities to conduct critical research on digital power are influenced by depending, empirically and methodologically, on powerful market actors controlling the underlying research infrastructure. Building on discussions at the …
- by Anne Kaun, Maris MännisteNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1962-1985, April 2025. Chatbots have become a mundane experience for Internet users. Public sector institutions have recently been introducing more advanced chatbots. In this article, we consider two cases of public sector chatbots, one in Estonia and one in Sweden, seeking to …
- by Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Nadia JudeNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1986-2011, April 2025. This article critically examines the social implications of data infrastructures designed to moderate contested content categories such as disinformation. It does so in the context of new online safety regulation (e.g. the EU Digital Services Act) that …
- by Jennifer Pybus, Stine Lomborg, Alessandro Gandini, Signe Sophus LaiNew Media & Society, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1851-1867, April 2025. This article introduces a special issue exploring emerging empirical approaches to studying infrastructures for datafication and their social, political, and economic implications. The merits of empirical research on infrastructures for datafication are …
- by Yee Man Margaret Ng, Rik RayNew Media & Society, Ahead of Print. This study examines how journalists are grappling with platform migration following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitterin October 2022. Using a mixed-method approach that combines computational analysis of the activities of 861 journalists on Twitter and …
- 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 …