Social Media + Society

Article	Citations
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics	163
Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media	129
Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok	99
Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media	98
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom	70
The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media	64
Do Not Recommend? Reduction as a Form of Content Moderation	58
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement	58
Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges	56
From “Networked Publics” to “Refracted Publics”: A Companion Framework for Researching “Below the Radar” Studies	49
Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy	45
Can Social Media Participation Enhance LGBTQ+ Youth Well-Being? Development of the Social Media Benefits Scale	42
Black Squares for Black Lives? Performative Allyship as Credibility Maintenance for Social Media Influencers on Instagram	39
Loneliness and Its Association With Social Media Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak	39
Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns	36
From “Nasa Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter	36
Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19	35
Who Consumes New Media Content More Wisely? Examining Personality Factors, SNS Use, and New Media Literacy in the Era of Misinformation	34
How Popular Culture Prompts Youth Collective Political Expression and Cross-Cutting Political Talk on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis	34
Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes	34
Fostering Dialogic Engagement: Toward an Architecture of Social Media for Social Change	33
Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States	33
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
Hunting Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Influencer Management Tools: Algorithmic Cultures, Brand Safety, and Bias	30

Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges	28
Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age	28
Online Engagement Between Opposing Political Protest Groups via Social Media is Linked to Physical Violence of Offline Encounters	28
Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign	27
The Promoter, Celebrity, and Joker Roles in Journalists’ Social Media Performance	27
Algorithmic Closeness in Mourning: Vernaculars of the Hashtag #grief on TikTok	26
Feeling Authentic on Social Media: Subjective Authenticity Across Instagram Stories and Posts	25
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	25
COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter	25
Theorizing “Stories About Algorithms” as a Mechanism in the Formation and Maintenance of Algorithmic Imaginaries	25
Affordances-Based Brand Relations: An Inquire on Memetic Brands on Instagram	24
Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users	24
Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics, and Memory	23
Digital Nomads and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Narratives About Relocation in a Time of Lockdowns and Reduced Mobility	23
The Strength of Weak Ties Revisited: Further Evidence of the Role of Strong Ties in the Provision of Online Social Support	22
A Sadness Bias in Political News Sharing? The Role of Discrete Emotions in the Engagement and Dissemination of Political News on Facebook	22
“Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China	22
The Roles of Worry, Social Media Information Overload, and Social Media Fatigue in Hindering Health Fact-Checking	22
Bots Amplify and Redirect Hate Speech in Online Discourse About Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
Misinformation Concerns and Online News Participation among internet Users in India	21
A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being	21
A Conspiracy of Data: QAnon, Social Media, and Information Visualization	21
Fact-Checking the Crisis: COVID-19, Infodemics, and the Platformization of Truth	21
From Polarization to Hate: Portrait of the Spanish Political Meme	20
Analysis of Ageism, Sexism, and Ableism in User Comments on YouTube Videos About Climate Activist Greta Thunberg	20
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	19
Key Influencers in Public Diplomacy 2.0: A Country-Based Social Network Analysis	19
From “Oh, you’re Chinese . . . ” to “No bats, thx!”: Racialized Experiences of Australian-Based Chinese Queer Women in the Mobile Dating Context	19
The Drama of Metrics: Status, Spectacle, and Resistance Among YouTube Drama Creators	19
Applying the Uses and Gratifications Model to Examine Consequences of Social Media Addiction	18
The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins	18
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	17
Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”	17
Shouting Into the Wind: Medical Science versus “B.S.” in the Twitter Maelstrom of Politics and Misinformation About Hydroxychloroquine	17
Pathways Linking Media Use to Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mediated Moderation Study	17
Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing	16
Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore	16
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	16
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers	16
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the COVID-19 Lockdown	15
Copyright Gossip: Exploring Copyright Opinions, Theories, and Strategies on YouTube	15
Blackfishing on Instagram: Influencing and the Commodification of Black Urban Aesthetics	15
Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social	15
Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction	15
An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness: Comparing Perceptions of Algorithms Across Social Media Platforms	14
YouTube as Alternative Television in Russia: Political Videos During the Presidential Election Campaign 2018	14
Shape Shifting Across Social Media	14
Curating Quality? How Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News	14
#reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition	14
Beyond Clicktivism: What Makes Digitally Native Activism Effective? An Exploration of the Sleeping Giants Movement	14

Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition	14
“We Rewrote This Title”: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement	14
Depicting the Emotion Flow: Super-Spreaders of Emotional Messages on Weibo During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	13
Unpacking Multimodal Fact-Checking: Features and Engagement of Fact-Checking Videos on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)	13
“The Shade of It All”: How Black Women Use Instagram and YouTube to Contest Colorism in the Beauty Industry	13
The Role of Subjective Construals on Reporting and Reasoning about Social Media Use	13
Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions	12
You Won’t Believe What They Just Said! The Effects of Political Deepfakes Embedded as Vox Populi on Social Media	12
Politics and Politeness: Analysis of Incivility on Twitter During the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary	12
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution	12
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States	12
Disconnection: How Measured Separations From Journalistic Norms and Labor Can Help Sustain Journalism	12
Constructing Sexual Fields: Chinese Gay Men’s Dating Practices Among Pluralized Dating Apps	12
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms	12
The Role of Online Media in Mobilizing Large-Scale Collective Action	12
You Can (Not) Say What You Want: Using Algospeak to Contest and Evade Algorithmic Content Moderation on TikTok	12
How Black Teen Girls Navigate Social Media to Form Romantic Relationships	12
Political Messaging Over Time: A Comparison of US Presidential Candidate Facebook Posts and Tweets in 2016 and 2020	12
Do We Know Politicians’ True Selves From the Media? Exploring the Relationship Between Political Media Exposure and Perceived Political Authenticity	11
Living in a Material World: Sponsored Instagram Posts and the Role of Materialism, Hedonic Enjoyment, Perceived Trust, and Need to Belong	11
Influence and Improvisation: Participatory Disinformation during the 2020 US Election	11
What Makes a Good Citizen Online? The Emergence of Discursive Citizenship Norms in Social Media Environments	11
Amplifying Counter-Public Spheres on Social Media: News Sharing of Alternative Versus Traditional Media After the 2019 Chilean Uprising	11
Measuring Americans’ Comfort With Research Uses of Their Social Media Data	11
#iamhere: Collective Counterspeech and the Quest to Improve Online Discourse	11
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	11
Troubling Dialogue and Digital Media: A Subaltern Critique	11
Bartleby: Procedural and Substantive Ethics in the Design of Research Ethics Systems	11
Social Media Use and Pathways to Protest Participation: Evidence From the 2019 Chilean Social Outburst	11
Do News Actually “Find Me”? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon	11
More Than Just Shouting? Distinguishing Interpersonal-Directed and Elite-Directed Incivility in Online Political Talk	10
Be Yourself: The Relative Importance of Personal and Social Norms for Adolescents’ Self-Presentation on Instagram	10
A God-Tier LARP? QAnon as Conspiracy Fictioning	10
Empathy Not Quarantined: Social Support via Social Media Helps Maintain Empathy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Cross-Cutting Discussion on Social Media and Online Political Participation: A Cross-National Examination of Information Seeking and Social Accountability Explanations	10
“Crystal Is Creepy, but Cool”: Mapping Folk Theories and Responses to Automated Personality Recognition Algorithms	10
New Older Users’ Attitudes Toward Social Networking Sites and Loneliness: The Case of the Oldest-Old Residents in a Small Italian City	10
Social Media Networking Sites Usage and Depression Among University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Loneliness	9
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	9
Multiliteracies for Combating Information Disorder and Fostering Civic Dialogue	9
Bounded or Boundless: A Case Study of Foreign Correspondents’ Use of Twitter During the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	9
Folk Theories of Avoiding Content Moderation: How Vaccine-Opposed Influencers Amplify Vaccine Opposition on Instagram	9
Know Her Name: Open Dialogue on Social Media as a Form of Innovative Justice	9
Muscles, Makeup, and Femboys: Analyzing TikTok’s “Radical” Masculinities	9
Politically Motivated Avoidance in Social Networks: A Study of Facebook and the 2020 Presidential Election	9
TikTok as a Key Platform for Youth Political Expression: Reflecting on the Opportunities and Stakes Involved	9
Making a Living in the Creator Economy: A Large-Scale Study of Linking on YouTube	9
Virtual Reality and Political Outgroup Contact: Can Avatar Customization and Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Social Distance?	9
The Institutional Impacts of Algorithmic Distribution: Facebook and the Australian News Media	9
Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic	9
Angry Posts Mobilize: Emotional Communication and Online Mobilization in the Facebook Pages of Western European Right-Wing Populist Leaders	9
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Mobile Telephony, Information Verification, and Expressive Communication During Hawaii’s False Missile Alert	9
The Dark Side of Upward Social Comparison for Social Media Users: An Investigation of Fear of Missing Out and Digital Hoarding Behavior	9
Safety for Whom? Investigating How Platforms Frame and Perform Safety and Harm Interventions	9
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online	9
Differing Relationships Between Instagram and Twitter on Suicidal Thinking: The Importance of Interpersonal Factors	9
Online Harassment: Assessing Harms and Remedies	9
The Meanings of Social Media Use in Everyday Life: Filling Empty Slots, Everyday Transformations, and Mood Management	9
Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms, and Ephemeral Content—Introduction to the Special Issue	9
The Power of Schadenfreude: Predicting Behaviors and Perceptions of Trolling Among Reddit Users	8
Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture: A View From Scuttlebutt	8
The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement	8
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being	8
Picturing Opaque Power: How Conspiracy Theorists Construct Oppositional Videos on YouTube	8
Studying the Downstream Effects of Fact-Checking on Social Media: Experiments on Correction Formats, Belief Accuracy, and Media Trust	8
The Sociomateriality of Rating and Ranking Devices on Social Media: A Case Study of Reddit’s Voting Practices	8
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways	8
Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur	8
Hate Speech in a Telegram Conspiracy Channel During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Toxic Social Media: Affective Polarization After Feminist Protests	8
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	8
Science Factionalism: How Group Identity Language Affects Public Engagement With Misinformation and Debunking Narratives on a Popular Q&A Platform in China	8
Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice	8
Social Networking Sites’ Gag Order: Commercial Content Moderation’s Adverse Implications for Fundamental Sexual Rights and Wellbeing	8
The Impact of What Others Do, Approve Of, and Expect You to Do: An In-Depth Analysis of Social Norms and Self-Disclosure on Social Media	8
InstaMigrants: Global Ties and Mundane Publics of Russian-Speaking Bloggers with Migration Background	8
Plurality in the Measurement of Social Media Use and Mental Health: An Exploratory Study Among Adolescents and Young Adults	8
Forced Empowerment and the Paradox of Mobile Dating Apps	8
The Role of Suspended Accounts in Political Discussion on Social Media: Analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German Elections	8

How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil	8
The “Lucky Money” That Started It All—The Reinvention of the Ancient Tradition “Red Packet” in Digital Times	8
Invisible Data: A Framework for Understanding Visibility Processes in Social Media Data	8
From Scalability to Subsidiarity in Addressing Online Harm	8
Tweeting About Climate: Which Politicians Speak Up and What Do They Speak Up About?	8