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New Media & Society Template

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About the New Media & Society format

New Media & Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication, Impact of Technology on Adolescents. Over its lifetime it has published 3,910 papers, which have received 222,604 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', New Media & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSocial Media and Politics Media Studies and Communication Impact of Technology on Adolescents Gender, Feminism, and Media Digital Games and Media
ISSN1461-4448
Citation impact (2-yr)4.35
h-index212
i10-index2,377
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Amsterdam
Journal websitenms.sagepub.com
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Papers published in New Media & Society per year

170
2014
119
2015
172
2016
168
2017
167
2018
179
2019
268
2020
275
2021
314
2022
281
2023
239
2024
259
2025

Citation impact of New Media & Society by publication year

16.1K
2014
10.2K
2015
15.7K
2016
15K
2017
15.8K
2018
12.8K
2019
13.3K
2020
9.6K
2021
7.3K
2022
3.5K
2023
2.2K
2024
508
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in New Media & Society

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

Alice Marwick, danah boyd · 7 Jul 2010

Social media technologies collapse multiple audiences into single contexts, making it difficult for people to use the same techniques online that they do to handle multiplicity in face-to-face conversation. This article investigates how content producers navigate ‘imagined audiences’ on Twitter. We talked with participants who have different types of followings to understand their techniques, including…

4,503 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The politics of ‘platforms’

Tarleton Gillespie · 9 Feb 2010

Online content providers such as YouTube are carefully positioning themselves to users, clients, advertisers and policymakers, making strategic claims for what they do and do not do, and how their place in the information landscape should be understood. One term in particular, ‘platform’, reveals the contours of this discursive work. The term has been deployed…

2,315 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

Sonia Livingstone · 19 May 2008

The explosion in social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Friendster is widely regarded as an exciting opportunity, especially for youth.Yet the public response tends to be one of puzzled dismay regarding a generation that, supposedly, has many friends but little sense of privacy and a narcissistic fascination with self-display. This article explores…

1,767 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability

Mike Ananny, Kate Crawford · 13 Dec 2016

Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able to know how it works and govern it—a pattern that recurs in recent work about transparency and computational systems. But can “black boxes’ ever be opened, and…

1,640 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The digital divide shifts to differences in usage

Alexander Johannes Aloysius Maria van Deursen, Jan AGM van Dijk · 7 Jun 2013

In a representative survey of the Dutch population we found that people with low levels of education and disabled people are using the Internet for more hours a day in their spare time than higher educated and employed populations. To explain this finding, we investigated what these people are doing online. The first contribution is…

1,608 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

New Media & Society template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the New Media & Society format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the New Media & Society template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does New Media & Society use?
New Media & Society uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', New Media & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to New Media & Society?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready New Media & Society document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the New Media & Society template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the New Media & Society format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is New Media & Society?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready New Media & Society PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official New Media & Society template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the New Media & Society template cost?
You can start writing in the New Media & Society template for free. Exporting the final submission-ready New Media & Society PDF and LaTeX source is part of DocuGuru's paid plans — see the app for current pricing.
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