OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in Digital Communication During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Implications for Digital Inequality and Future Research	157
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics	104
COVID-19 and Health Code: How Digital Platforms Tackle the Pandemic in China	95
Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media	87
Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok	84
Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy	82
The Effects of Instagram Use, Social Comparison, and Self-Esteem on Social Anxiety: A Survey Study in Singapore	75
Boosting Health Campaign Reach and Engagement Through Use of Social Media Influencers and Memes	75
Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media	64
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom	62
Older Adults, Social Technologies, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Challenges, Strengths, and Strategies for Support	53
Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands	52
“You Need At Least One Picture Daily, if Not, You’re Dead”: Content Creators and Platform Evolution in the Social Media Ecology	51
The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media	49
Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture	48
Locating Power in Platformization: Music Streaming Playlists and Curatorial Power	45
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement	43
Fighting the ‘Infodemic’: Legal Responses to COVID-19 Disinformation	42
More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies	41
Persuasion Through Bitter Humor: Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Rhetoric in Internet Memes of Two Far-Right Groups in Finland	39
Mindfully Scrolling: Rethinking Facebook After Time Deactivated	39
LINE as Super App: Platformization in East Asia	37
Do Not Recommend? Reduction as a Form of Content Moderation	37
Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post?	36
Who to Trust on Social Media: How Opinion Leaders and Seekers Avoid Disinformation and Echo Chambers	36

Social Media and Fear of Missing Out in Adolescents: The Role of Family Characteristics	36
Teens’ Motivations to Spread Fake News on WhatsApp	36
Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns	35
A Second-Order Disaster? Digital Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic	35
Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy	35
From “Networked Publics” to “Refracted Publics”: A Companion Framework for Researching “Below the Radar” Studies	34
Misinformation on Instagram: The Impact of Trusted Endorsements on Message Credibility	34
The Rise of the Data Poor: The COVID-19 Pandemic Seen From the Margins	33
The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict	32
Can Social Media Participation Enhance LGBTQ+ Youth Well-Being? Development of the Social Media Benefits Scale	32
Associations Between Fear of Missing Out, Problematic Smartphone Use, and Social Networking Services Fatigue Among Young Adults	31
Loneliness and Its Association With Social Media Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak	31
Thinking Outside the Black-Box: The Case for “Algorithmic Sovereignty” in Social Media	30
Digital Resilience Tactics of Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands: Social Media for Social Support, Health, and Identity	30
Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States	30
Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges	29
Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19	29
Who Consumes New Media Content More Wisely? Examining Personality Factors, SNS Use, and New Media Literacy in the Era of Misinformation	29
From “Nasa Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter	29
Platform Imaginaries and Dutch Public Service Media	29
What You Can Scrape and What Is Right to Scrape: A Proposal for a Tool to Collect Public Facebook Data	29
Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes	28
Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age	27
Entrepreneurial Solidarities: Social Media Collectives and Filipino Digital Platform Workers	27
Sharenting, Peer Influence, and Privacy Concerns: A Study on the Instagram-Sharing Behaviors of Parents in the United Kingdom	27
Bit by (Twitch) Bit: “Platform Capture” and the Evolution of Digital Platforms	26
Studying Platforms and Cultural Production: Methods, Institutions, and Practices	26
Political Identity Ownership: Symbolic Contests to Represent Members of the Public	26
A Relationship-Centered and Culturally Informed Approach to Studying Misinformation on COVID-19	26
Feeling Asian Together: Coping With #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits	25
Trolling as a Collective Form of Harassment: An Inductive Study of How Online Users Understand Trolling	25
Real Talk About Fake News: Identity Language and Disconnected Networks of the US Public’s “Fake News” Discourse on Twitter	25
The Promoter, Celebrity, and Joker Roles in Journalists’ Social Media Performance	24
Demystifying Social Bots: On the Intelligence of Automated Social Media Actors	24
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	24
Influencer Management Tools: Algorithmic Cultures, Brand Safety, and Bias	24
Interpretative Polarization across Platforms: How Political Disagreement Develops Over Time on Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp	24
Black Squares for Black Lives? Performative Allyship as Credibility Maintenance for Social Media Influencers on Instagram	24
How Popular Culture Prompts Youth Collective Political Expression and Cross-Cutting Political Talk on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis	24
Fostering Dialogic Engagement: Toward an Architecture of Social Media for Social Change	23
“They Got Filters”: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a Politics of Hope	23
It Is All About Location: Smartphones and Tracking the Spread of COVID-19	23
Online Engagement Between Opposing Political Protest Groups via Social Media is Linked to Physical Violence of Offline Encounters	23
Hunting Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization	23
Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen	22
“Rewarding Good Creators”: Corporate Social Media Discourse on Monetization Schemes for Content Creators	22
Birds of a Feather Get Recommended Together: Algorithmic Homophily in YouTube’s Channel Recommendations in the United States and Germany	21
Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region	21
What Are Meaningful Social Interactions in Today’s Media Landscape? A Cross-Cultural Survey	20

Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users	20
Markers of Online Privacy Marginalization: Empirical Examination of Socioeconomic Disparities in Social Media Privacy Attitudes, Literacy, and Behavior	20
The Strength of Weak Ties Revisited: Further Evidence of the Role of Strong Ties in the Provision of Online Social Support	19
COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter	19
Antisemitism on Twitter: Collective Efficacy and the Role of Community Organisations in Challenging Online Hate Speech	19
One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	18
“Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China	18
App Imperialism: The Political Economy of the Canadian App Store	18
Searching for Oneself on YouTube: Teenage Peer Socialization and Social Recognition Processes	18
Theorizing “Stories About Algorithms” as a Mechanism in the Formation and Maintenance of Algorithmic Imaginaries	18
Key Influencers in Public Diplomacy 2.0: A Country-Based Social Network Analysis	18
The Use of Telegram for Non-Consensual Dissemination of Intimate Images: Gendered Affordances and the Construction of Masculinities	18
Studying Instagram Beyond Selfies	18
A Sadness Bias in Political News Sharing? The Role of Discrete Emotions in the Engagement and Dissemination of Political News on Facebook	17
Managing Diverse Online Networks in the Context of Polarization: Understanding How We Grow Apart on and through Social Media	17
What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain	17
“Good Social Media?”: Underrepresented Youth Perspectives on the Ethical and Equitable Design of Social Media Platforms	17
“Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze	17
A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being	17
Feeling Authentic on Social Media: Subjective Authenticity Across Instagram Stories and Posts	17
Catch 22: The Paradox of Social Media Affordances and Stigmatized Online Support Groups	17
Algorithmic Closeness in Mourning: Vernaculars of the Hashtag #grief on TikTok	17
Layers of Marginality: An Exploration of Visibility, Impressions, and Cultural Context on Geospatial Apps for Men Who Have Sex With Men in Mumbai, India	16
Reluctant to Share: How Third Person Perceptions of Fake News Discourage News Readers From Sharing “Real News” on Social Media	16
Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign	16
Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics, and Memory	16
Misinformation Concerns and Online News Participation among internet Users in India	15
Guidelines Without Lines, Communities Without Borders: The Marketplace of Ideas and Digital Manifest Destiny in Social Media Platform Policies	15
Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore	15
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	15
The Drama of Metrics: Status, Spectacle, and Resistance Among YouTube Drama Creators	15
A Conspiracy of Data: QAnon, Social Media, and Information Visualization	14
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers	14
The Field as a Black Box: Ethnographic Research in the Age of Platforms	14
Young Women’s Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition	14
Facebook’s Ideal User: Healthy Habits, Social Capital, and the Politics of Well-Being Online	14
Between the Mundane and the Political: Women’s Self-Representations on Instagram	14
Lifestyle Enclaves in the Instagram City?	14
Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing	14
#digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram	14
Third-Person Effect and Hate Speech Censorship on Facebook	13
Curating and Exhibiting for the Pandemic: Participatory Virtual Art Practices During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China	13
How Do Partisans Consume News on Social Media? A Comparison of Self-Reports With Digital Trace Measures Among Twitter Users	13
Fact-Checking the Crisis: COVID-19, Infodemics, and the Platformization of Truth	13
Social Networking Sites, Personalization, and Trust in Government: Empirical Evidence for a Mediation Model	13
Digital Nomads and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Narratives About Relocation in a Time of Lockdowns and Reduced Mobility	13
#reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition	13
Shouting Into the Wind: Medical Science versus “B.S.” in the Twitter Maelstrom of Politics and Misinformation About Hydroxychloroquine	13
Building Social Media Observatories for Monitoring Online Opinion Dynamics	13
Public Penitence: Facebook and the Performance of Apology	13
Affordances-Based Brand Relations: An Inquire on Memetic Brands on Instagram	13
Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research	12
Platforming Intersectionality: Networked Solidarity and the Limits of Corporate Social Media	12
Analysis of Ageism, Sexism, and Ableism in User Comments on YouTube Videos About Climate Activist Greta Thunberg	12
Minimal Effects, Maximum Panic: Social Media and Democracy in Latin America	12
The Roles of Worry, Social Media Information Overload, and Social Media Fatigue in Hindering Health Fact-Checking	12
Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social	12
Self-Tracking Health Over Time: From the Use of Instagram to Perform Optimal Health to the Protective Shield of the Digital Detox	12
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the COVID-19 Lockdown	12
The Biopolitics of Social Distancing	12
“Coronavirus EXPLAINED”: YouTube, COVID-19, and the Socio-Technical Mediation of Expertise	12
Bots Amplify and Redirect Hate Speech in Online Discourse About Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Disconnection: How Measured Separations From Journalistic Norms and Labor Can Help Sustain Journalism	12
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges	12
Sharing Knowledge and “Microbubbles”: Epistemic Communities and Insularity in US Political Journalism	12
Priming Effects of Social Media Use Scales on Well-Being Outcomes: The Influence of Intensity and Addiction Scales on Self-Reported Depression	11
Constructing Sexual Fields: Chinese Gay Men’s Dating Practices Among Pluralized Dating Apps	11
From Polarization to Hate: Portrait of the Spanish Political Meme	11
Copyright Gossip: Exploring Copyright Opinions, Theories, and Strategies on YouTube	11
Habitual Disclosure: Routine, Affordance, and the Ethics of Young Peoples Social Media Data Surveillance	11
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	11
From “Oh, you’re Chinese . . . ” to “No bats, thx!”: Racialized Experiences of Australian-Based Chinese Queer Women in the Mobile Dating Context	11
The COVID-19 Mental Health Content Moderation Conundrum	11
Applying the Uses and Gratifications Model to Examine Consequences of Social Media Addiction	11
YouTube as Alternative Television in Russia: Political Videos During the Presidential Election Campaign 2018	11
Shape Shifting Across Social Media	11
Cross-Cutting Discussion on Social Media and Online Political Participation: A Cross-National Examination of Information Seeking and Social Accountability Explanations	10
Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition	10
How Black Teen Girls Navigate Social Media to Form Romantic Relationships	10
Do We Know Politicians’ True Selves From the Media? Exploring the Relationship Between Political Media Exposure and Perceived Political Authenticity	10

#FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus	10
Emotional Expression of #body on Instagram	10
Machine Vision and Social Media Images: Why Hashtags Matter	10
Bounded or Boundless: A Case Study of Foreign Correspondents’ Use of Twitter During the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	9
Tweeting Along Partisan Lines: Identity-Motivated Elaboration and Presidential Debates	9
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms	9
Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions	9
Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”	9
An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness: Comparing Perceptions of Algorithms Across Social Media Platforms	9
Measuring Americans’ Comfort With Research Uses of Their Social Media Data	9
Saw It on Facebook: The Role of Social Media in Facilitating Science Issue Awareness	9
“We Rewrote This Title”: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement	9
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	9
Pathways Linking Media Use to Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mediated Moderation Study	9
Troubling Dialogue and Digital Media: A Subaltern Critique	9
Indigenous Movements, Collective Action, and Social Media: New Opportunities or New Threats?	9
Plurality in the Measurement of Social Media Use and Mental Health: An Exploratory Study Among Adolescents and Young Adults	9
Be Yourself: The Relative Importance of Personal and Social Norms for Adolescents’ Self-Presentation on Instagram	9
Vital Media: The Affective and Temporal Dynamics of Young Cancer Patients’ Social Media Practices	9
Curating Quality? How Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News	9