New Media and Society

Aims & Scope

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.

The journal includes contributions on: -the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media -the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change -contemporary as well as historical developments -the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice New Media & Society publishes peer-reviewed content from both the social sciences and the humanities and includes contributions from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, geography, anthropology, economics and the political and information sciences.

Topics to be covered include: digitalization and convergence; interactivity and virtuality; consumption and citizenship; innovation, regulation and control; the cultures of the Internet; patterns and inequalities of use; community and identity in electronic space; time and space in global culture and everyday life; the politics of cyberspace.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4.3
2024	4.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.400

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	160

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1027

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	4964

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience

  Citation: 2613

  Authors: Alice E., danah

• The politics of ‘platforms’

  Citation: 1648

  Authors: Tarleton

• Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

  Citation: 1020

  Authors: Sonia

• The digital divide shifts to differences in usage

  Citation: 987

  Authors: Alexander JAM, Jan AGM

• Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability

  Citation: 902

  Authors: Mike, Kate

• Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices

  Citation: 896

  Authors: Nicole B., Charles, Cliff

• The virtual sphere

  Citation: 837

  Authors: Zizi

• Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook

  Citation: 825

  Authors: Jean-Christophe, Carl, Paul N, Christian

• The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity

  Citation: 771

  Authors: David B, Thomas

• Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide

  Citation: 766

  Authors: Neil

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