Social Media + Society

Papers
(The H4-Index of Social Media + Society is 28. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram243
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience135
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media106
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach79
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination79
Gigs North and South74
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China70
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study62
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations59
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies56
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom55
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems52
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture52
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements51
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach42
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse41
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility41
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism40
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion39
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse38
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community37
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter34
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags33
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising32
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization32
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model31
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha30
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters29
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study28
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe28
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