Social Media + Society

Article	Citations
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	160
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	98
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	79
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	68
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	56
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	51
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	49
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	48
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	48
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	40
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	39
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	38
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	37
A Self-Critical Public: Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests	36
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies	36
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	35
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	34
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	33
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach	32
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	32
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	31
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	31
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	30
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	30
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	29

Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	28
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	27
An Examination of Location-Based Real-Time Dating Application Infrastructure, Profile Features, and Cybervictimization	25
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	25
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	24
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	24
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok	24
“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists	24
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	24
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok	23
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	22
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path	22
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins	21
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	21
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics	21
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	20
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram	20
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria	19
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry	19
Loneliness and Its Association With Social Media Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak	19
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	19
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes	19
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction	19
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media	19
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem	18
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites	18
The Protective Role of the Internet in Depression for Europeans Aged 50+ Living Alone	18
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products	18
Twitter Campaigning Strategies in Australian Federal Elections 2013–2019	18
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places	18
Journalists, Emotions, and the Introduction of Generative AI Chatbots: A Large-Scale Analysis of Tweets Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT	17
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation	17
The Crooked Platform	17
Social Media and Political Dissent in Russia and Belarus: An Introduction to the Special Issue	17
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook	17
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers	17
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy	17
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?	16
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media	16
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path	16
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India	16
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram	16
Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic	15
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?	15
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages	15
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness	15
The Subtle Spread of Hateful Memes: Examining Engagement Intentions Among Parents of Adolescents	15
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective	15
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	15
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response	15

Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal	15
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods	15
#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes	15
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China	15
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels	14
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers	14
Living in a Material World: Sponsored Instagram Posts and the Role of Materialism, Hedonic Enjoyment, Perceived Trust, and Need to Belong	14
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media	14
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture	14
The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity	14
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways	14
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online	14
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker	13
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook	13
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data	13
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey	13
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding	13
A Conspiracy of Data: QAnon, Social Media, and Information Visualization	13
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online	13
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online	13
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics	13
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)	13
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War	13
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms	13
From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter	13
You Don’t Fool Me: On Scams, Scambaiting, Deception, and Epistemological Ambiguity at R/scambait on Reddit	13
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong	12
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production	12
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments	12
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	12
Fighting Fire With Fire? Relegitimizing Strategies for Media Institutions Faced With Unwarranted “Fake News” Accusations	12
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice	12
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.0	12
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain	12
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics	12
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis	12
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media	12
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India	12
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions	11
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians	11
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden	11
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter	11
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	11
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	11
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter	11
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories	11
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States	11
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter	11
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey	11
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit	11
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil	10
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study	10
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge	10
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok	10
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook	10
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault	10
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being	10
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events	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
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
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance	10
Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies	10
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context	10
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement	10
How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives	10
The Role of Online Media in Mobilizing Large-Scale Collective Action	9
Bots Versus Humans: Discursive Activism During the Pandemic in the Iranian Twittersphere	9
Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns	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
Bodies, Brands, and Bullies: Culture Jamming and the Livestreaming of Engagement	9
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution	9
A Qualitative Analysis of How Individuals Utilized the Twitter Hashtags #NotOkay and #MeToo to Comment on the Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence	9
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks	9
Twitter Users’ Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach	9
When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking	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
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election	9

YOLO Publics: The Potential for Creative Subversion of an Online Trading Community	9
“Right-Wing Safe Space” Versus “Comrade Major”: Media Ideologies of Far-Right Russian Social Media Users	9
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences	9
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	9
Mapping the Russian Political Influence Ecosystem: The Night Wolves Biker Gang	9
Why Bystanders (Don’t) Post About Violence: Contextualizing Individual Versus Socialized Rationales of Observers’ Publication Intentions	9