Social Media + Society

Article	Citations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	251
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	140
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	109
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	87
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies	83
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	78
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture	71
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	66
Gigs North and South	63
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	59
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	58
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	58
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	54
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	52
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	44
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	44
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	43
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	43
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach	42
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	39
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	39
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	38
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	37
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	37
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	34

The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	33
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	32
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	30
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	29
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	29
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	28
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	28
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	27
Examining the Role of Social Media and Imagined Communities in Addressing Social Welfare Gaps in Kenya	27
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	27
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	27
Regionality of Messaging Applications: Everyday Socialization as a Gateway to Civic and Political Participation in China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States	26
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	26
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path	25
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	25
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	25
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry	25
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins	25
“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists	24
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram	23
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok	23
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction	23
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	23
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy	23
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok	23
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	23
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics	23
Under the Shadow of Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study Tracing the Pathway From Future Uncertainty to Psychological Distress Through Social Media Addiction and Emotional Exhaustion	23
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites	22
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products	22
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram	22
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path	22
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media	21
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms	21
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria	21
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem	21
The Protective Role of the Internet in Depression for Europeans Aged 50+ Living Alone	21
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places	21
The Crooked Platform	21
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook	21
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation	21
Journalists, Emotions, and the Introduction of Generative AI Chatbots: A Large-Scale Analysis of Tweets Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT	20
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes	20
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response	20
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India	20
Hashtags and Hope: Tracing Chinese Digital Spirituality Through #WishMeABabyBoy Trend on Xiaohongshu (Rednote)	20
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?	20
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media	20
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China	19
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods	19

#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes	19
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	19
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?	18
Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal	18
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages	18
Instrumental Bot Identities and the Politics of Online Discourse	18
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness	18
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective	18
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media	18
Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media	17
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels	17
The Subtle Spread of Hateful Memes: Examining Engagement Intentions Among Parents of Adolescents	17
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok	17
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers	17
The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity	17
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways	17
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat	17
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms	16
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture	16
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey	16
Screens of Sorrow, Echoes of Spirit: Transcultural Mourning and Affective Fandom Publics Across Chinese and Western Platforms Over 5 Years	16
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data	16
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics	16
Social Media Influencers as “Dirty Workers”: An Explorative Study on How They Use Strategies to Reduce the Moral Taint	16
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online	15
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)	15
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War	15
From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter	15
Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker	15
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding	15
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics	14
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook	14
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online	14
Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars	14
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions	14
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India	14
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.0	14
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain	13
In the Mood for Likes: A Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations’ Emotional Communication on Social Media	13
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	13
Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 2023	13
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media	13
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production	13
Fighting Fire With Fire? Relegitimizing Strategies for Media Institutions Faced With Unwarranted “Fake News” Accusations	13
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	13
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States	13
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis	13
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong	13
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online	12
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	12
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories	12
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey	12
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments	12
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians	12
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter	12
Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice	12
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
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter	12
Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea	11
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden	11
Corrigendum to “How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives”	11
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault	11
Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies	11
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter	11
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being	11
Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech	11
Should I Post When a Loved One Passes Away?: Digital Mourning and Emotional Norms on WeChat Moments	11
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge	11
Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity	11
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit	11
A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism	11
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil	11
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events	11
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers	11
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	10
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study	10
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms	10
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media	10

YOLO Publics: The Potential for Creative Subversion of an Online Trading Community	10
Local Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Place-Based Conflicts in Russia	10
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance	10
How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platforms’ Corporate Social Initiatives	10
A Qualitative Analysis of How Individuals Utilized the Twitter Hashtags #NotOkay and #MeToo to Comment on the Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence	10
Shadows and Light: Unveiling Multifaceted Polarization in Social Media Discourse on Human Trafficking	10
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context	10
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook	10
“Right-Wing Safe Space” Versus “Comrade Major”: Media Ideologies of Far-Right Russian Social Media Users	9
Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective	9
Mapping the Russian Political Influence Ecosystem: The Night Wolves Biker Gang	9
Twitter Users’ Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach	9
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election	9
Grindr Tourism Among Tourists, Locals, and Immigrants: Dating App Impacts for Social Relations, Gay Tourism, and Digital Convergence	9
“Cash Masters” Coming Out as “Straight”: Social Media and the Changing Dynamics of Gender and Sexuality	9
John Oliver as the Pandemic Fundraiser? Championing Causes and Political Participation Through Satirical Television	9
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	9
Bots Versus Humans: Discursive Activism During the Pandemic in the Iranian Twittersphere	9
Why Bystanders (Don’t) Post About Violence: Contextualizing Individual Versus Socialized Rationales of Observers’ Publication Intentions	9
A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After Implementation of the PIPL	9
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok	9
A God-Tier LARP? QAnon as Conspiracy Fictioning	9
Fierce Feminism or False Promises? Netizens’ Perceptions of the Party-State in Gender Controversies on Weibo	9
Winner-Take-All? Visibility, Availability, and Heterogeneity on Webcam Sex Platforms	9
The Shifting Morals of Moral Entrepreneurs	9
When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking	9
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution	9
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement	9
Bodies, Brands, and Bullies: Culture Jamming and the Livestreaming of Engagement	9
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks	9
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences	9
The New Experts of Online Dating: Feminism, Advice, and Harm on Instagram	9