Gabriele de Seta

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 494 citations indexed

About

Gabriele de Seta is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Gabriele de Seta has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 494 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 6 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Gabriele de Seta's work include Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (7 papers), Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 papers) and Digital Communication and Language (5 papers). Gabriele de Seta is often cited by papers focused on Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (7 papers), Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 papers) and Digital Communication and Language (5 papers). Gabriele de Seta collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Gabriele de Seta's co-authors include Jean‐Christophe Plantin, Crystal Abidin, David Kurt Herold, Quentin Stevens, Jill Walker Rettberg, Annette Markham, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Ge Zhang and Daniel Vogler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Media & Society and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Gabriele de Seta

28 papers receiving 459 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. WeChat as infrastructure: the techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms
    2019 204 citations Gabriele de Seta et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gabriele de Seta Norway 9 246 111 73 50 43 32 494
Aswin Punathambekar United States 12 287 1.2× 94 0.8× 137 1.9× 16 0.3× 66 1.5× 33 600
Richard Barbrook United Kingdom 7 340 1.4× 84 0.8× 142 1.9× 30 0.6× 26 0.6× 22 663
Alex Golub United States 10 285 1.2× 63 0.6× 77 1.1× 24 0.5× 20 0.5× 33 508
Jeroen de Kloet Netherlands 11 429 1.7× 146 1.3× 117 1.6× 15 0.3× 115 2.7× 57 646
Greg Elmer Canada 13 363 1.5× 76 0.7× 295 4.0× 27 0.5× 31 0.7× 43 712
Jillet Sarah Sam India 4 194 0.8× 61 0.5× 62 0.8× 24 0.5× 9 0.2× 9 426
John Cheney-Lippold United States 5 335 1.4× 53 0.5× 106 1.5× 79 1.6× 23 0.5× 8 672
Astrid Mager Austria 12 367 1.5× 64 0.6× 144 2.0× 57 1.1× 12 0.3× 24 699
Delia Dumitrica Netherlands 13 308 1.3× 60 0.5× 192 2.6× 31 0.6× 26 0.6× 32 513
Kieran Kelly United Kingdom 4 407 1.7× 44 0.4× 240 3.3× 70 1.4× 33 0.8× 4 741

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gabriele de Seta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vogler, Daniel, Adrian Rauchfleisch, & Gabriele de Seta. (2025). The Short-Term Impact of an On-Site Literacy Intervention on Discerning Deepfake Videos Based on Visual Features. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 102(4). 1135–1156.
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Rauchfleisch, Adrian, Daniel Vogler, & Gabriele de Seta. (2025). Deepfakes or Synthetic Media? The Effect of Euphemisms for Labeling Technology on Risk and Benefit Perceptions. Social Media + Society. 11(3). 1 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2024). From ASCII lanterns to synthetic livestreams: Three decades of Chinese digital folklore. Communication and the Public. 1 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de, et al.. (2024). Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models. Big Data & Society. 11(4). 5 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2023). QR code: The global making of an infrastructural gateway. Global Media and China. 8(3). 362–380. 7 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2023). Digital Depth: A Volumetric Speculation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.
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Rettberg, Jill Walker, et al.. (2022). Representations of machine vision technologies in artworks, games and narratives: A dataset. Data in Brief. 42. 108319–108319. 8 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de, et al.. (2021). Sinofuturism(s). 7(2). 74–99.
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Zhang, Ge & Gabriele de Seta. (2021). Introduction: ASIA.LIVE: Inaugurating Livestream Studies in Asia. 8(1-2). 5–14.
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2020). Three lies of digital ethnography. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 77–97. 33 indexed citations
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Abidin, Crystal & Gabriele de Seta. (2020). Private messages from the field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 1–19. 41 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2020). Scaling the scene: experimental music in Taiwan. Cultural Studies. 35(1). 162–182. 1 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2018). (Un)civil Society in Digital China| Wenming Bu Wenming: The Socialization of Incivility in Postdigital China. International journal of communication. 12. 21. 1 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2017). FCJ-167 Spraying, Fishing, looking for trouble : The Chinese Internet and a critical perspective on the concept of trolling. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2017). The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics. 4(3). 316–319. 72 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de, et al.. (2015). Stranger stranger or lonely lonely? Young Chinese and dating apps between the locational, the mobile and the social. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 3 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2015). Memes in digital culture. New Media & Society. 17(3). 476–478. 1 indexed citations
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Seta, Gabriele de. (2014). People's pornography: sex and surveillance on the Chinese Internet. Porn Studies. 1(1-2). 208–211. 4 indexed citations
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Herold, David Kurt & Gabriele de Seta. (2014). Through the Looking Glass: Twenty Years of Chinese Internet Research. The Information Society. 31(1). 68–82. 31 indexed citations

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