Social Media + Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Media + Society is 9. 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
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe28
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study28
Multi-Platform Social Media Use and Incidental Exposure: A Two-Step Analysis of the Conjoint and Distinct Roles of Network Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Across Platforms27
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil27
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites26
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework26
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok26
Regionality of Messaging Applications: Everyday Socialization as a Gateway to Civic and Political Participation in China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States25
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru25
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images25
Examining the Role of Social Media and Imagined Communities in Addressing Social Welfare Gaps in Kenya25
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry24
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path24
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins24
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry23
“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists22
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter22
Under the Shadow of Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study Tracing the Pathway From Future Uncertainty to Psychological Distress Through Social Media Addiction and Emotional Exhaustion22
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction21
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers21
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products21
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media21
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics21
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy21
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites21
The Crooked Platform21
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok21
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok21
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram21
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram21
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path21
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook20
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem20
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms20
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media20
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation19
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places19
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India19
The Protective Role of the Internet in Depression for Europeans Aged 50+ Living Alone19
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes19
Hashtags and Hope: Tracing Chinese Digital Spirituality Through #WishMeABabyBoy Trend on Xiaohongshu (Rednote)19
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria19
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response18
It’s Not Just “8 Dead”: Examining News and Twitter’s Social Construction of the Atlanta Spa Shootings Through the Lens of Networked Gatekeeping and Affective Publics18
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok18
Journalists, Emotions, and the Introduction of Generative AI Chatbots: A Large-Scale Analysis of Tweets Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT18
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China18
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?18
The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity18
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods17
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective17
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages17
The Subtle Spread of Hateful Memes: Examining Engagement Intentions Among Parents of Adolescents17
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness17
Instrumental Bot Identities and the Politics of Online Discourse17
Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media17
#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes17
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media17
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?17
Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal17
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways16
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding16
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels16
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat16
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers16
Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the Special Issue16
Screens of Sorrow, Echoes of Spirit: Transcultural Mourning and Affective Fandom Publics Across Chinese and Western Platforms Over 5 Years15
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics15
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data15
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey15
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War14
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)14
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture14
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker14
Social Media Influencers as “Dirty Workers”: An Explorative Study on How They Use Strategies to Reduce the Moral Taint14
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online14
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms13
Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars13
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media13
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States13
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online13
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram13
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online13
From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter13
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India13
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics13
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain13
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic12
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis12
Fighting Fire With Fire? Relegitimizing Strategies for Media Institutions Faced With Unwarranted “Fake News” Accusations12
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production12
Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 202312
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook12
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.012
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions12
In the Mood for Likes: A Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations’ Emotional Communication on Social Media12
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter11
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being11
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media11
Corrigendum to “Twitter (X) and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Characterizing the Most Amplified, Influential, and Connected Voices Driving Twitter Discourse About Tobacco Regulatory Policy Fr11
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter11
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey11
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories11
Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice11
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians11
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter11
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden11
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong11
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments11
Did COVID-19 Blur Partisan Boundaries? A Comparison of Partisan Affinity and Source Heterophily in Online Alternative News-Sharing Networks Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic11
A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism10
YOLO Publics: The Potential for Creative Subversion of an Online Trading Community10
Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea10
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media10
A Qualitative Analysis of How Individuals Utilized the Twitter Hashtags #NotOkay and #MeToo to Comment on the Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence10
Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity10
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil10
Should I Post When a Loved One Passes Away?: Digital Mourning and Emotional Norms on WeChat Moments10
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election10
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers10
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault10
Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech10
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit10
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context10
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge10
Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies10
When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking9
Corrigendum to “How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives”9
Twitter Users’ Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach9
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance9
Local Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Place-Based Conflicts in Russia9
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution9
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study9
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis9
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks9
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok9
Shadows and Light: Unveiling Multifaceted Polarization in Social Media Discourse on Human Trafficking9
Is There Room for Connective Democracy Within the Discussions About a New Constitution on Social Media? The Case of Chile in the Months Leading Up to the 2020 Plebiscite9
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement9
Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective9
A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After Implementation of the PIPL9
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms9
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events9
How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platforms’ Corporate Social Initiatives9
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook9
Fierce Feminism or False Promises? Netizens’ Perceptions of the Party-State in Gender Controversies on Weibo9
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