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A skill your agent uses when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership.
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Install Newms Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection .claude/skills/newms-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "newms-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection into .claude/skills/newms-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "newms-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection .agents/skills/newms-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "newms-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection into .agents/skills/newms-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "newms-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection .cursor/skills/newms-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "newms-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/newms-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "newms-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection .gemini/skills/newms-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "newms-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/newms-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "newms-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection .github/skills/newms-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "newms-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection into .github/skills/newms-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "newms-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection .opencode/skills/newms-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "newms-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/newms-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "newms-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
newms-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 552 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership.
- Works in 4 steps: Phenomenon with social stakes. It… → A portable concept, not a platform… → Interdisciplinary reach. A reader two… → …
- Judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The four-part fit test, Core NM&S thematic clusters… and Sibling-journal guard (decide…, plus 5 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Newms Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership. Tests fit and stakes; it does not design the study or write the paper.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership
Example prompts
- “/newms-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Phenomenon with social stakes. It concerns the social, political, or cultural shaping of new
- A portable concept, not a platform report. The contribution is an idea other scholars can carry
- Interdisciplinary reach. A reader two fields away can see why it matters. If only specialists in
- Timely but not ephemeral. New media moves fast; the claim must outlast the news cycle. Anchor on
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Newms Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 552 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
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The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 552 words, ~1,314 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/newms-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- newms-topic-selection
- description
- Use when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership. Tests fit and stakes; it does not design the study or write the paper.
Topic Selection & Fit (newms-topic-selection)
NM&S is the broad interdisciplinary journal on digital media, the internet, and society — not a platform-studies newsletter, a computer-science venue, or a US quantitative communication-science journal. A fitting topic says something about how new media and society shape each other, legible to readers across sociology, media and communication, STS, political science, and the humanities.
When to trigger
- Deciding whether an idea belongs at NM&S vs. a sibling venue
- A reader said the work is "too niche," "just a case study," or "atheoretical"
- Framing a study of one platform so it speaks to digital media and society broadly
The four-part fit test
A strong NM&S topic clears all four:
- Phenomenon with social stakes. It concerns the social, political, or cultural shaping of new media — platforms and datafication, digital inequality and the digital divide, social media and online community, algorithms and AI in everyday life, digital labor, privacy and surveillance — not a purely technical artifact.
- A portable concept, not a platform report. The contribution is an idea other scholars can carry to other sites — "datafied control," "platformed sociality," "networked privacy" — not "here is how TikTok works."
- Interdisciplinary reach. A reader two fields away can see why it matters. If only specialists in one app care, the framing is too narrow.
- Timely but not ephemeral. New media moves fast; the claim must outlast the news cycle. Anchor on a durable mechanism, not a feature that may vanish next release.
Core NM&S thematic clusters (where strong submissions land)
| Cluster | What lands well | What reads thin |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms & datafication | governance, business models, datafied power | a feature walkthrough |
| Digital inequality / divide | access, skills, outcomes, structural gaps | one descriptive usage gap |
| Social media & online community | norms, identity, sociality, harms | engagement metrics alone |
| Algorithms & AI in everyday life | how systems reshape practice, meaning | model benchmarking |
| Digital labor | platform work, content creation, value | a single-firm complaint |
| Privacy & surveillance | networked privacy, dataveillance, resistance | a privacy-policy review |
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Sibling-journal guard (decide before you submit)
NM&S is the broad interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society journal. Route elsewhere when:
- The contribution is a quantitative US communication-science effect with a comm-theory hook → Journal of Communication or Communication Research.
- The contribution is narrowly about information systems, policy, or ICT mechanics → Information, Communication & Society.
- The contribution is a social-media-platform-specific empirical study with little reach beyond it → Social Media + Society.
- The contribution is a technical method or system → a computer-science venue, not NM&S.
NM&S wins when the work is interdisciplinary, conceptually ambitious, and about new media and society rather than about one platform or one field.
Worked micro-example (illustrative)
Raw idea: "How creators on a streaming platform respond to a new recommendation algorithm."
Thin framing: a case study of one platform's update → reads as platform report (fails test 2 & 3).
NM&S framing: "Algorithmic dependency as a labor condition" — creators reorganize work, identity, and
risk around an opaque ranking system → a portable mechanism (datafied control of cultural labor),
legible to scholars of labor, media, and surveillance (clears all four).Calibration anchors
- Concept over platform. If the title names one app and no concept, the topic is not yet NM&S-shaped.
- Reach is the gate. Ask a colleague two fields away "why should I care?" If they can't, reframe.
- Durability beats novelty. A timely hook is fine; a claim that dies with the next app update is not.
Anti-patterns
- "Not yet studied on platform X" as the entire contribution
- A pure platform walkthrough or feature audit dressed up as research
- Chasing a viral moment with no durable mechanism behind it
- Framing so technical that only one subfield (or one engineering team) would read it
- Mistaking NM&S for a single-platform or quantitative-comm-science venue
Output format
【Phenomenon】the social/political/cultural new-media phenomenon
【Portable concept】the idea others can carry elsewhere
【Interdisciplinary reach】who two fields away should care, and why
【Fit verdict】NM&S / sibling venue (name it) / reframe
【Next】newms-literature-positioningSupplementary resources
../../resources/exemplars/library.md— real NM&S papers by theme × method../../resources/official-source-map.md— NM&S scope and ownership
© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newms Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| JudgeNeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | 1.7k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | |
| Do And JudgeNeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | 1.7k | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | |
| Table Fitasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks | 69k | — | ~772 | Automated safety check: Pass | CC0-1.0 | |
| Furniture Fit Checkpascalorg/editor | 25k | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 577 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Newms Topic Selection
What does Newms Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership. Newms Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership.
When should I use Newms Topic Selection?
Newms Topic Selection fits situations like: judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership.
How do I install Newms Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/newms-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Newms Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/newms-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Newms Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/newms-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/newms-topic-selection, .github/skills/newms-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/newms-topic-selection in your project.
What does Newms Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Newms Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Newms Topic Selection access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Newms Topic Selection safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Newms Topic Selection use?
Newms Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Newms Topic Selection use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Newms Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Newms Topic Selection: Judge (NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit, 1.7k stars), Do And Judge (NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit, 1.7k stars), Table Fit (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars) and Furniture Fit Check (pascalorg/editor, 25k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Newms Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.