Social Media + Society

Article	Citations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	173
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	144
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	131
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	110
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	95
Multi-Platform Social Media Use and Incidental Exposure: A Two-Step Analysis of the Conjoint and Distinct Roles of Network Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Across Platforms	91
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	75
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	71
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	67
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	65
Gigs North and South	62
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture	54
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	50
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	49
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	48
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	47
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	47
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	45
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	44
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	44
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	39
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	39
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	38
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	37
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	37

Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	37
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	36
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	36
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	36
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	35
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	35
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	34
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	34
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	34
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	34
Regionality of Messaging Applications: Everyday Socialization as a Gateway to Civic and Political Participation in China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States	33
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok	33
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction	32
Disconnecting in a Connected World: The Dynamics of Social Media Non-Use in a Platformized Society	32
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path	32
Under the Shadow of Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study Tracing the Pathway From Future Uncertainty to Psychological Distress Through Social Media Addiction and Emotional Exhaustion	31
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry	31
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins	31
Examining the Role of Social Media and Imagined Communities in Addressing Social Welfare Gaps in Kenya	30
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics	30
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram	27
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy	27
Shaping Sustainable Communication on Instagram: How Digital Influencers in Portugal Engage Consumers in Eco-Conscious Narratives	27
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok	27
Bystanders and Reporters: Who Acts Against Illegal Online Content?	26
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem	26
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media	26
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes	26
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products	26
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook	26
Hashtags and Hope: Tracing Chinese Digital Spirituality Through #WishMeABabyBoy Trend on Xiaohongshu (Rednote)	26
The Crooked Platform	26
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites	26
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms	26
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation	25
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram	25
Journalists, Emotions, and the Introduction of Generative AI Chatbots: A Large-Scale Analysis of Tweets Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT	25
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria	24
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media	24
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path	24
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places	24
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India	24
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?	23
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China	23
Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media	23
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media	22
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective	22
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness	22
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 Publics	22
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?	21

The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages	21
Instrumental Bot Identities and the Politics of Online Discourse	21
Escaping the Spectacle: Anti-Check-in as an Algorithmic Culture Jamming Strategy on Social Media	20
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response	20
Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal	20
#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes	20
The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity	20
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok	20
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media	20
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels	20
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods	19
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways	19
We Are Equally Vulnerable? An Examination of the Third-Person Effect in AI-Generated Misinformation	18
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics	17
Social Media has Aged, It’s Time It Got Wise	17
From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter	17
Digitally Constructing Marginalized Neurodivergence: Understanding South Asian Diasporic Autism and ADHD Communities on TikTok	17
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat	17
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey	17
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding	17
The AI Referee: How Online Interventions Shape Incivility and User Engagement in News Discussions	17
Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Motivations Behind the Dissemination of Conspiracy Theories Online	17
Screens of Sorrow, Echoes of Spirit: Transcultural Mourning and Affective Fandom Publics Across Chinese and Western Platforms Over 5 Years	17
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture	16
Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the Special Issue	16
Social Media Influencers as “Dirty Workers”: An Explorative Study on How They Use Strategies to Reduce the Moral Taint	16
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online	16
The TikTok Caliphate: How Jihadist Supporters Exploit Algorithmic Recommendations and Evade Content Moderation	16
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers	16
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War	16
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data	16
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain	15
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online	15
Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 2023	15
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker	15
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms	15
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production	15
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)	15
Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars	14
The Conjuncture of Intentionality, Facticity, and Identity: Exposure to Disinformation and Malinformation on Social Media and Their Association With Ethnic Polarization	14
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong	14
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.0	14
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media	14
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook	14
In the Mood for Likes: A Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations’ Emotional Communication on Social Media	14
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India	14
Coping With Digital Hostility: How Witnessing and Receiving Hate Speech Elicit Divergent Responses	14
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	14
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis	14
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online	14
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions	14
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics	14
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments	14
A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism	13
“You Are Not Fat”: The Postfeminist Contradiction in #RejectBodyAnxiety—A Computationally Assisted Critical Thematic Analysis	13
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit	13
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories	13
Unshareable: Non-Sharing Grief and Grievabilities on Social Media	13
Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea	13
Understanding Engagement With Platform Safety Technology for Reducing Exposure to Online Harms	13
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 Fr	13
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter	13
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter	13
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey	13
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians	13
Techno Music and Luxury Yachts: The Misogynesque Audiovisual Affective Codes of TikTok Manfluencers	13
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter	13
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 Pandemic	12
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden	12
Corrigendum to “How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives”	12
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil	12
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media	12
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge	12
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 Plebiscite	12
Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech	12
Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity	12
Older Adults’ Response Strategies to Misinformation on Social Media	12
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok	12
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events	11

Local Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Place-Based Conflicts in Russia	11
Why Bystanders (Don’t) Post About Violence: Contextualizing Individual Versus Socialized Rationales of Observers’ Publication Intentions	11
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study	11
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault	11
How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platforms’ Corporate Social Initiatives	11
YOLO Publics: The Potential for Creative Subversion of an Online Trading Community	11
Should I Post When a Loved One Passes Away?: Digital Mourning and Emotional Norms on WeChat Moments	11
“Cash Masters” Coming Out as “Straight”: Social Media and the Changing Dynamics of Gender and Sexuality	11
When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking	11
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election	11
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook	11
Shadows and Light: Unveiling Multifaceted Polarization in Social Media Discourse on Human Trafficking	11
Misogyny as a Structural Hub: Unveiling a Mode of Opportunity Structure for Chinese Alternative Communities	11
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks	11
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers	11
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement	11
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context	11
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance	11