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Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism

Overview of attention for article published in Media, Culture & Society, October 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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twitter
18 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
5 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
90 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism
Published in
Media, Culture & Society, October 2021
DOI 10.1177/01634437211053766
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 11%
Lecturer 6 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Student > Master 3 3%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 50 56%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 19%
Arts and Humanities 6 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Psychology 2 2%
Philosophy 1 1%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 56 62%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2026.
All research outputs
#2,701,951
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Media, Culture & Society
#200
of 1,642 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,939
of 471,848 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media, Culture & Society
#2
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,642 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 471,848 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.