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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Misogyny Was in the Atmosphere”: Feminist Perspectives on Social Media Use in the 2019 Algerian Pro-Democratic Demonstrations217
Reproductive Health and Semantics: Representations of Abortion in Semantic Models and Search Applications163
“#My Place Isn’t in the Kitchen”: Examining Feminist Facebook Framing of an Algerian Social Movement152
“I Can Choose to be a Good Man Even if I Got a Raw Deal”: Neoliberal Heteromasculinity as Manosphere Counter Narrative in r/Stoicism130
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter91
Our Boy Whitey: Middle-Aged Women’s Happy Object on TikTok85
An Examination of Location-Based Real-Time Dating Application Infrastructure, Profile Features, and Cybervictimization76
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study73
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter73
Addressing the “Whys” of UK Children’s YouTube Use: A Purposes Approach64
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model52
Variables Contributing to the Awareness of Online Gendered Violence: Focus on Observers48
PM Me the Truth? The Conditional Effectiveness of Fact-Checks Across Social Media Sites47
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories46
Stumbling Blocks and Alternative Paths: Reconsidering the Walkthrough Method for Analyzing Apps43
The Process of Personal Social Media for Work: Unveiling the “Work” Behind Social Media42
Using Pregnancy and Parenting Apps and Social Media During COVID-19: Absence and Sociality, Agency and Cultural Negotiations for South Asian–Origin Women in Australia41
Sponsorship Disclosure in Social Media Influencer Marketing: The Algorithmic and Non-Algorithmic Barriers39
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion39
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha38
The Dark Side of Online Support Groups: Conflictual Experiences in Single-Child Parents’ Facebook Groups36
Hands-On(ly) Vlogging: How Turkish Muslim Women Perform “Modesty” and “Piety” in Self-Branding on Their YouTube Cooking Channels35
Sarcastic and Deviant Trolling in Turkey: Associations With Dark Triad and Aggression35
Under the Shadow of Culture and Politics: Understanding LGBTQ Social Media Activists’ Perceptions, Concerns, and Strategies35
Trust and Safety on Social Media: Understanding the Impact of Anti-Social Behavior and Misinformation on Content Moderation and Platform Governance33
Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use32
A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being32
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok32
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies31
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey31
On Black Queer Joy and the Digital30
Decoding Online Narratives and Unraveling Complexities in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis29
Ecologies of Violence on Social Media: An Exploration of Practices, Contexts, and Grammars of Online Harm29
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter29
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil28
“We Make Them Our Kin”: Australian Older Adult’s Playful Kinship Practices Through Sharing Animal Images on Social Media27
Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics, and Memory27
“Difficult to Just Exist”: Social Media Platform Community Guidelines and the Free Speech Rights of Sex Workers26
Belonging and Social Media: Latinx Teenagers’ Experiences in a YPAR Study25
A Topology of Twitter Tactics: Tracing the Rhetorical Dimensions and Digital Labor of Networked Publics25
Facebook News Sharing, Hostile Perceptions of News Content, and Political Participation25
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination25
The Discursive Construction of Populist and Misogynist Nationalism: Digital Vigilantism Against Unpatriotic Intellectual Women in China24
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit23
Systemic Gendering in Facebook Group Participation22
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters22
Confronting Institutional Violence in the Context of Climate Justice Politics22
Rapid Sharing of Islamophobic Hate on Facebook: The Case of the Tablighi Jamaat Controversy21
“How a Facebook Update Can Cost You Your Job”: News Coverage of Employment Terminations Following Social Media Disclosures, From Racist Cops to Queer Teachers21
Chiming In: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Popular Musicians’ Political Engagement on Twitter21
Mobilization, Mass Perceptions, and (Dis)information: “New” and “Old” Media Consumption Patterns and Protest21
Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic21
Encountering “the Other” in Religious Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Analysis20
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience20
Identifying Themes of Right-Wing Extremism in Hindutva Discourse on Twitter20
Social Media Expression and User Predispositions: Applying the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model to the Study of Issue Polarization19
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden19
Fake News and the Web of Plausibility19
Computational Communication Methods for Examining Problematic News-Sharing Practices on Facebook at Scale18
Will Using Social Media Benefit or Harm Users’ Self-Esteem? It Depends on Perceived Relational-Closeness18
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community18
Why Is One Social Media Platform Not Enough? A Typology of Platform-Swinging Behavior and Associated Affordance Preferences18
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements18
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media18
Greenfluencing Through the Power of Emotions? Impact of Message Frames and Emotionally Matching Background Music on the Effectiveness of Influencers’ Environmental Communication18
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism18
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being17
Downlining Disinformation: How MLM Distributors Use Gendered Strategies for Recruitment and Pastel QAnon Indoctrination17
When Monument Battles Go Digital: Russian–Ukrainian Conflicts over Material Heritage on Telegram17
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising17
“A Shameless Ideology of Shameless Women”: Positioning the Other in Social Media Discourse Surrounding a Women’s Rights Movement in Pakistan17
“You’re Just Playing the Victim”: Online Grieving and the Non-use of Social Media in Italy17
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 Pandemic17
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems16
Why Do People Share Political Information and Misinformation Online? Developing a Bottom-Up Descriptive Framework16
A Self-Critical Public: Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests16
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram16
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study16
TikTok as Television16
Do News Actually “Find Me”? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon16
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians16
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags15
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter15
From Platform Capitalism to Digital China: The Path, Governance, and Geopolitics15
“On My Head About It”: College Aspirations, Social Media Participation, and Community Cultural Wealth15
Agency and Incentives of Diasporic Political Influencers on Facebook Malawi15
Platform Imperialism Theory From the Asian Perspectives15
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework15
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility14
Misinformation Concerns and Online News Participation among internet Users in India14
What Teams Do: Exploring Volunteer Content Moderation Team Labor on Facebook14
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse14
What Makes a Good Citizen Online? The Emergence of Discursive Citizenship Norms in Social Media Environments14
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization14
New Older Users’ Attitudes Toward Social Networking Sites and Loneliness: The Case of the Oldest-Old Residents in a Small Italian City14
Bearing the Unbearable: Double Controls and Disguised Precarity on China-Based Platforms14
Fact-Checking the Crisis: COVID-19, Infodemics, and the Platformization of Truth14
What Social Media Could Be: Normative Frameworks for Evaluating Digital Public Spaces13
From “Oh, you’re Chinese . . . ” to “No bats, thx!”: Racialized Experiences of Australian-Based Chinese Queer Women in the Mobile Dating Context13
Shouting Into the Wind: Medical Science versus “B.S.” in the Twitter Maelstrom of Politics and Misinformation About Hydroxychloroquine13
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil13
Issue Communication Network Dynamics in Connective Action: The Role of Non-Political Influencers and Regular Users13
Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore13
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics13
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse13
Empathy Not Quarantined: Social Support via Social Media Helps Maintain Empathy During the COVID-19 Pandemic12
Algorithmic Closeness in Mourning: Vernaculars of the Hashtag #grief on TikTok12
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events12
TikTok as a Key Platform for Youth Political Expression: Reflecting on the Opportunities and Stakes Involved12
Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis12
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach12
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe12
Social Media Networking Sites Usage and Depression Among University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Loneliness12
Men in Beauty Work and Feminization of Digital Labor Platforms12
Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction12
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations12
Emerging Digital Inequalities: A Comparative Study of Older Adults’ Smartphone Use12
Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok12
Filtering the I From the Ideal: Examining Preadolescents’ Online Self-Presentation in Relation to Their Perceived Attractiveness12
“We Rewrote This Title”: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement11
“It’s All About the Look”: Making Sense of Appearance, Attractiveness, and Authenticity Online11
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins11
Refugees’ Storytelling Strategies on Digital Media Platforms: How the Russia–Ukraine War Unfolded on TikTok11
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path11
The Political Influence of Lifestyle Influencers? Examining the Relationship Between Aspirational Social Media Use and Anti-Expert Attitudes and Beliefs11
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms11
Performing Not-Not-Me in SoMe: A New Theatrical Typology of Self-Presentation Online11
Hate Influencers’ Mediation of Hate on Telegram: “We Declare War Against the Anti-White System”11
Socializing Targets of Older Adults’ SNS Use: Social Strain Mediates the Relations Between Older Adults’ SNS Use With Friends and Well-Being Outcomes11
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media10
Affordances-Based Brand Relations: An Inquire on Memetic Brands on Instagram10
Forced Empowerment and the Paradox of Mobile Dating Apps10
What You Perceive Is What You Get: Enhancing Rumor-Combating Effectiveness on Social Media Based on Elaboration Likelihood Model10
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges10
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Apprehending the Climate Crisis10
Trustworthiness Over Time on Twitter: Three Critical Periods for the Norwegian Health Authorities and Political Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic10
“Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China10
A Qualitative Analysis of How Individuals Utilized the Twitter Hashtags #NotOkay and #MeToo to Comment on the Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence10
Politically Motivated Avoidance in Social Networks: A Study of Facebook and the 2020 Presidential Election10
The Power of Images: How Multimodal Hate Speech Shapes Prejudice and Prosocial Behavioral Intentions10
Exploring the Discursive Function of Hashtags: A Semantic Network Analysis of JUUL-Related Instagram Messages10
The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement10
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance10
Educating Cancer on TikTok: Expanding Online Self-Disclosure of Cancer Patients10
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry10
“I Had My Hair Cut Today to Share #Women_Short Cut_Campaign”: Feminist Selfies Protesting Misogyny9
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement9
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution9
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the COVID-19 Lockdown9
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge9
“#schleichdiduoaschloch” Terror, Collective Memory, and Social Media9
Toxic Social Media: Affective Polarization After Feminist Protests9
Out With the Hero: How TikTok Everyday Stories Are Re-writing the Arctic9
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok9
Remote Family Communication as Discounted Compensation: Mobile Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Internal Older Migrants Within China9
Mundane Participation: Power Imbalances in Youth Media Use9
Traversing Emotional Spaces: Social Media Affordances and Emotion Regulation in Times of Physical Isolation9
Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults to Engage in Privacy Protection Behavior While Setting Up Smartphone Apps: A Cross-Country Comparison Between Romania and Germany9
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election9
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics9
Spatialization of Digital Platforms9
The Disaggregation of Platform Labor: Theorizing Skin Tone Work in the Black Influencer Beauty Economy9
Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires9
The Ethics of Publicly Available Data Research: A Situated Ethics Framework for Reddit9
It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States9
Jalaiah Effect: A Story of a Stolen Dance on TikTok and Trans-Platformization of Ignorance9
Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping: Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United States, the Netherlands, and Poland9
Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies9
“(Virtuous) Wives Don’t Have Anything to Hide”: Understanding Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural India9
Participate in Philanthropy for Idols or Society? Fans’ Social Media Practices, Dual Identity, and Civic Engagement in Chinese Online Fandom9
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault9
The Hidden History of the Like Button: From Decentralized Data to Semantic Enclosure9
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru9
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