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Social media ‘back in the hands of the people’? Nuancing assumptions of legitimate content moderation on Mastodon 社交媒体“回到人民手中”？乳齿象上合法内容审核的细微差别假设
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-14 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261437809
Klara K. Matusewicz, João C. Magalhães
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Performing femininity: Comparing self-presentation on childcare and sugar dating platforms 表现女性气质：比较在育儿和糖约会平台上的自我表现
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261446587
Elief Vandevenne, Margherita Di Cicco
{"title":"Performing femininity: Comparing self-presentation on childcare and sugar dating platforms","authors":"Elief Vandevenne, Margherita Di Cicco","doi":"10.1177/14614448261446587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261446587","url":null,"abstract":"The platformization of feminized labor such as childcare and sugar dating introduces new mechanisms for reproducing gender inequalities. On platforms like Babysits and Seeking, visibility determines access to jobs, requiring workers to strategically curate their self-presentation. Drawing on a thematic content analysis of 800 worker biographies from Brussels and Milan, this article examines how workers navigate gendered platform affordances through digital self-branding. We identify three strategies: (1) constructing an authentic self to cultivate trust and credibility, (2) leveraging transitional life stages (e.g. studying, migration) to signal both affordability and aspiration, and (3) adopting stereotypical feminine traits to align with platform logics and user expectations. We argue that self-branding functions as a gendered survival strategy in feminized digital labor markets, employed by workers to reframe reproductive labor as skilled, complex, and capability-intensive. It converts relational, emotional, and gendered performances into client-recognized value, while managing platform incentives and reputational risks.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The many meanings of measure: Social media metrics and their implications for collective organizing in the influencer economy 衡量的多种含义：社交媒体指标及其对影响者经济中集体组织的影响
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261445040
Victoria O’Meara
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Who benefits from the idea of screen time? 谁会从看屏幕时间中受益？
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261444717
Andrew Z. H. Yee, Brendan Luyt
{"title":"Who benefits from the idea of screen time?","authors":"Andrew Z. H. Yee, Brendan Luyt","doi":"10.1177/14614448261444717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261444717","url":null,"abstract":"Public discourse surrounding children’s use of digital technologies centres on fears that excessive screen time harms development and well-being. Consequently, policymakers and organizations have introduced time-focused guidelines and advisories surrounding children and youth’s media use. In ethnographic work examining digital technology use in families of preschoolers, we found that parents often spoke about device use in guilt-ridden and shameful ways. This led us to ask: if caregivers and children are not the beneficiaries in the perpetuation of the screen time concept, who is benefitting from it? We identify three major groups who benefit: technology companies (who shift responsibility away from platform design), governments (who demonstrate action without implementing complex regulation), and researchers (who secure funding and attention). We argue that examining who benefits from screen time reveals underlying power relations in this discourse and suggest three alternative, more equitable approaches for researchers and policymakers addressing children’s digital media use.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Refusal as silence: Gendered disparities in Vision-Language Model responses 拒绝即沉默：视觉语言模型反应中的性别差异
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261441886
Sha Luo, Sang Jung Kim, Zening Duan, Kaiping Chen
{"title":"Refusal as silence: Gendered disparities in Vision-Language Model responses","authors":"Sha Luo, Sang Jung Kim, Zening Duan, Kaiping Chen","doi":"10.1177/14614448261441886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261441886","url":null,"abstract":"Refusal behavior by Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly visible in content moderation, yet little is known about how refusals vary by the identity of the user making the request. This study investigates refusal as a sociotechnical outcome through a counterfactual persona design. Focusing on a Vision-Language Model (GPT-4V), we examine how gendered persona in prompts influence refusal in binary gender classification tasks. We vary gender identity across male, female, non-binary, and transgender personas while keeping the classification task and visual input constant. We find that transgender and non-binary personas experience significantly higher refusal rates, even in non-harmful contexts. Our findings also provide methodological implications for equity audits using LLMs. We underscore the importance of modeling identity-driven disparities and caution against uncritical use of artificial intelligence systems for content coding. This study advances algorithmic fairness by reframing refusal as a communicative act that may unevenly regulate epistemic access and participation.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Crisis as opportunity? Far-right mobilization in digital information environments during the COVID-19 pandemic 危机即机遇？2019冠状病毒病大流行期间数字信息环境中的极右翼动员
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261443536
Frederik Weber Henriksen, Eva Mayerhöffer, Jakob Bæk Kristensen
{"title":"Crisis as opportunity? Far-right mobilization in digital information environments during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Frederik Weber Henriksen, Eva Mayerhöffer, Jakob Bæk Kristensen","doi":"10.1177/14614448261443536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261443536","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic reconfigured political, discursive, and mediation opportunity structures for digital far-right mobilization. Using a multilingual large language model to classify 41 million posts from far-right-affiliated accounts in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden (2019–2022), we analyze how anti-systemic discourse became integrated into established far-right repertoires through Markov transition analysis and logistic regression. We find substantial evidence of discursive convergence: anti-systemic messaging was associated with conspiracy, anti-progressive and authoritarian narratives, while Islamophobic content was less likely to co-occur. Evidence for political opportunity structures is more uneven, with the clearest longitudinal effects in the Danish-language environment, a later increase in the Swedish-language environment, and no positive adjusted period effect in the German-language environment despite a strong descriptive increase in anti-systemic posting. Evidence for mediation opportunity structures is likewise limited and heterogeneous across language environments. Overall, the pandemic produced a partial realignment rather than a uniform shift.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The second-level digital divide in Germany: A typology of digital literacy among internet users 德国的第二级数字鸿沟：互联网用户数字素养的类型学
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261436033
Danilo Harles, Hannah Schmid-Petri
{"title":"The second-level digital divide in Germany: A typology of digital literacy among internet users","authors":"Danilo Harles, Hannah Schmid-Petri","doi":"10.1177/14614448261436033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261436033","url":null,"abstract":"Digital technologies increasingly shape the way we communicate, collaborate and participate in society. People lacking digital literacy are, therefore, prone to exclusion in today’s digital world. To identify digital divides and vulnerable groups in Germany, we first developed a comprehensive framework for the measurement of digital literacy that future research can build on. Subsequently, we used cluster analyses to create a typology of German internet users based on their digital literacy. We found that literacy levels between types differed significantly and that digital divides are associated with differences in sociodemographic variables as well as with the use of and certain attitudes towards digital technologies. Our typology offers valuable insights about digital divides in Germany and can therefore serve as a baseline for digital education policies.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Beyond groups: Meaning-making through Digital Connective Narratives 超越群体：通过数字连接叙事创造意义
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261438830
Maite Regina Beramendi, Davide Morselli, Kevin Durrheim, Andrés Martínez Torres
{"title":"Beyond groups: Meaning-making through Digital Connective Narratives","authors":"Maite Regina Beramendi, Davide Morselli, Kevin Durrheim, Andrés Martínez Torres","doi":"10.1177/14614448261438830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261438830","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces Digital Connective Narratives (DCN) as a framework for explaining how large-scale meaning-making emerges in digital environments where group boundaries are fluid and participation is fragmented. Classic theories of groups, discourse communities, and collective narratives offer valuable insights into cohesion, identity, and shared cultural repertoires, but they presuppose forms of membership, continuity, and recognition that are often absent in networked publics. DCN refer to a meaning-making process whose product is the narrative field—an emergent discursive structure characterized by recurrent framing, shared semiotic nodes, patterned alignments, circulation trajectories, and temporal persistence. The article introduces the DCN model and distinguishes it from existing frameworks for analyzing collective meaning-making online, clarifying its distinctive contribution to the study of digital publics and providing a conceptual foundation for analyzing sense-making at scale in contemporary media ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Being literate, behaving literate? A mixed-methods approach to adolescents’ algorithm literacy and behavioral strategies on social media 有文化，举止有文化？青少年在社交媒体上的算法素养和行为策略的混合方法研究
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261446589
Larissa Leonhard, Ruth Wendt, Claudia Riesmeyer
{"title":"Being literate, behaving literate? A mixed-methods approach to adolescents’ algorithm literacy and behavioral strategies on social media","authors":"Larissa Leonhard, Ruth Wendt, Claudia Riesmeyer","doi":"10.1177/14614448261446589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261446589","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the relationship between adolescents’ algorithm literacy and their behavior on social media platforms. Using a mixed-methods approach, including focus groups, a mobile diary study, and a representative survey of German adolescents aged 14–17, we identify three behavioral strategies in response to algorithmically curated content: (1) indifferent behavior, such as passive scrolling; (2) interactive behavior, including liking or sharing content to influence algorithmic outcomes; and (3) preventive behavior, such as blocking content or adjusting privacy settings. The results indicate that higher algorithm awareness is associated with increased indifferent behavior, whereas greater algorithm knowledge correlates with reduced interaction, possibly due to a reluctance to engage with algorithmic profiling. Adolescents’ ambivalent attitudes toward algorithms underscore these behavioral patterns. This work contributes to the understanding of algorithm literacy’s role in adolescents’ social media use and highlights the need for future research to refine the concept of “algorithm-literate” behavior.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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“We are truth tellers”: Exploring #BlackintheIvory as a digital counterpublic for black scholars “我们是讲真话的人”：探索#BlackintheIvory作为黑人学者的数字反公众
IF 5 1区 文学
New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261440469
Eden Harrison, Isis Settles, Adama Jobarteh
{"title":"“We are truth tellers”: Exploring #BlackintheIvory as a digital counterpublic for black scholars","authors":"Eden Harrison, Isis Settles, Adama Jobarteh","doi":"10.1177/14614448261440469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261440469","url":null,"abstract":"Social media platforms offer more than entertainment to indulge in leisure; they also serve as crucial sites for marginalized groups to build and nurture their communities. To explore this sentiment, the current study examined whether and how #BlackintheIvory, a hashtag on Twitter, served as a digital counterpublic aimed at helping Black scholars process encounters with racism in higher education. After conducting a thematic analysis of 1,253 randomly selected tweets, five themes were developed that support this hashtag as a digital counterpublic. Users were sharing helpful resources, amplifying hidden truths about racism, sending messages to and from dominant spheres on the website, expressing intersectional awareness, and using culturally coded communication. These themes suggest that Black users establish online communities that can effectively address racial issues they encounter offline. This research sheds light on the role of online spaces in nurturing and facilitating the political progression of marginalized communities.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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