Social Media + Society

Article	Citations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	222
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	133
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	99
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	76
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	76
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	69
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	66
Gigs North and South	56
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	54
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	52
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	51
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	48
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies	45
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	42
A Self-Critical Public: Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests	41
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture	40
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	39
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	39
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	38
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	36
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach	35
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	33
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	32
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	32
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	31

The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	31
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	29
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	28
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	28
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	28
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	27
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	27
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	26
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	26
Examining the Role of Social Media and Imagined Communities in Addressing Social Welfare Gaps in Kenya	25
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	25
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok	25
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	24
Regionality of Messaging Applications: Everyday Socialization as a Gateway to Civic and Political Participation in China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States	24
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path	23
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins	23
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	23
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	23
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry	23
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok	23
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram	22
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	22
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction	21
“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists	21
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	21
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics	21
Under the Shadow of Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study Tracing the Pathway From Future Uncertainty to Psychological Distress Through Social Media Addiction and Emotional Exhaustion	21
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy	20
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products	20
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram	20
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path	20
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media	20
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites	20
The Crooked Platform	20
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem	19
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media	19
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms	19
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook	19
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?	19
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation	19
Twitter Campaigning Strategies in Australian Federal Elections 2013–2019	19
Social Media and Political Dissent in Russia and Belarus: An Introduction to the Special Issue	19
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes	19
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India	18
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria	18
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok	18
The Protective Role of the Internet in Depression for Europeans Aged 50+ Living Alone	18
Hashtags and Hope: Tracing Chinese Digital Spirituality Through #WishMeABabyBoy Trend on Xiaohongshu (Rednote)	18
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response	18
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	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	18
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China	18
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods	17
The Subtle Spread of Hateful Memes: Examining Engagement Intentions Among Parents of Adolescents	17
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages	17
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media	17
#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes	17
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness	17
The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity	17
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?	16
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels	16
Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal	16
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways	16
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers	15
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective	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
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding	15
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online	15
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey	15
Instrumental Bot Identities and the Politics of Online Discourse	15
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat	15
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics	15
Screens of Sorrow, Echoes of Spirit: Transcultural Mourning and Affective Fandom Publics Across Chinese and Western Platforms Over 5 Years	14
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)	14
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online	14
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms	14
Social Media Influencers as “Dirty Workers”: An Explorative Study on How They Use Strategies to Reduce the Moral Taint	13
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	13
Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars	13
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	13
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture	13
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data	13
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India	13
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media	13
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online	13
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker	13
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War	13
Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice	13
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States	13
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments	13
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.0	12
In the Mood for Likes: A Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations’ Emotional Communication on Social Media	12
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics	12
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis	12
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production	12
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions	12
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook	12
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain	12
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong	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	11
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit	11
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden	11
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians	11
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories	11
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter	11
Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech	11
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter	11
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey	11
Fighting Fire With Fire? Relegitimizing Strategies for Media Institutions Faced With Unwarranted “Fake News” Accusations	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 Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil	11
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter	11
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election	10
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement	10
A Qualitative Analysis of How Individuals Utilized the Twitter Hashtags #NotOkay and #MeToo to Comment on the Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence	10
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook	10
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers	10
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok	10
Should I Post When a Loved One Passes Away?: Digital Mourning and Emotional Norms on WeChat Moments	10
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge	10
Local Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Place-Based Conflicts in Russia	10
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events	10
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks	10
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being	10
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault	10
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media	10
Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies	10

Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance	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
YOLO Publics: The Potential for Creative Subversion of an Online Trading Community	10
Shadows and Light: Unveiling Multifaceted Polarization in Social Media Discourse on Human Trafficking	9
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study	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
When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking	9
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms	9
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution	9
Fierce Feminism or False Promises? Netizens’ Perceptions of the Party-State in Gender Controversies on Weibo	9
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	9
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context	9
How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives	9
A God-Tier LARP? QAnon as Conspiracy Fictioning	9
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences	9