newms-literature-positioning
Use when situating a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript in the right interdisciplinary conversation and naming the specific gap or rival account it advances. Builds the positioning; it does not build the theory or design.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (newms-literature-positioning) NM&S is interdisciplinary, so positioning is harder than at a single-field journal: a paper on algorithmic management must speak to *both* the platform-labor literature *and* the surveillance/datafication literature, and show how they connect. The goal is to place the contribution in a live debate that crosses fields, then state precisely what it changes. ## When to trigger - Building the related-work section or the gap statement - A reviewer said you "missed key work," "ignored a whole field," or "reinvented an existing concept" - Deciding which conversation your paper is *in* when several are plausible ## How NM&S positioning differs - **Two-or-more literatures, braided.** Most NM&S papers sit at an intersection. Name each relevant literature, then show the *seam* your work stitches — that seam is often the contribution. - **Concepts travel across fields; cite their origins honestly.** "Affordances," "context collapse," "networked publics," "platformization," "datafication," "the digital divide" each have a lineage. Cite where the concept came from, not just the latest paper that used it. - **International and cross-discipli
- When to trigger
- How NM&S positioning differs
- The positioning moves
- Positioning patterns that land at NM&S
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
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- Supplementary resources
What does the newms-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when situating a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript in the right interdisciplinary conversation and naming the specific gap or rival account it advances. Builds the positioning; it does not build the theory or design.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.