NM&S Theory Building
Transforms empirical digital media findings into portable, theoretical constructs and mechanisms tailored for New Media & Society journal submissions.
Transforms empirical digital media findings into portable, theoretical constructs and mechanisms tailored for New Media & Society journal submissions.
The NM&S Theory Building skill assists academic researchers in conceptualizing, naming, and structuring portable theoretical mechanisms for submissions to the journal New Media & Society (NM&S). It bridges platform-specific empirical observations and broader communication and social theory by defining concepts independently of specific digital platforms, delineating explicit scope conditions, deriving observable implications, and preventing common peer-review traps such as atheoretical description or HARKing.