Social Media + Society

Article	Citations
Changes in Digital Communication During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Implications for Digital Inequality and Future Research	160
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics	138
Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media	107
COVID-19 and Health Code: How Digital Platforms Tackle the Pandemic in China	101
Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok	93
Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media	78
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom	63
“You Need At Least One Picture Daily, if Not, You’re Dead”: Content Creators and Platform Evolution in the Social Media Ecology	57
The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media	56
Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands	55
Older Adults, Social Technologies, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Challenges, Strengths, and Strategies for Support	55
Do Not Recommend? Reduction as a Form of Content Moderation	52
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement	51
Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture	50
More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies	45
Fighting the ‘Infodemic’: Legal Responses to COVID-19 Disinformation	44
Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post?	44
From “Networked Publics” to “Refracted Publics”: A Companion Framework for Researching “Below the Radar” Studies	43
Teens’ Motivations to Spread Fake News on WhatsApp	40
Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges	40
Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy	39
Social Media and Fear of Missing Out in Adolescents: The Role of Family Characteristics	38
Can Social Media Participation Enhance LGBTQ+ Youth Well-Being? Development of the Social Media Benefits Scale	37
A Second-Order Disaster? Digital Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic	36
Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns	35

Loneliness and Its Association With Social Media Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak	34
The Rise of the Data Poor: The COVID-19 Pandemic Seen From the Margins	34
Who Consumes New Media Content More Wisely? Examining Personality Factors, SNS Use, and New Media Literacy in the Era of Misinformation	33
From “Nasa Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter	33
Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19	33
Associations Between Fear of Missing Out, Problematic Smartphone Use, and Social Networking Services Fatigue Among Young Adults	32
What You Can Scrape and What Is Right to Scrape: A Proposal for a Tool to Collect Public Facebook Data	32
How Popular Culture Prompts Youth Collective Political Expression and Cross-Cutting Political Talk on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis	32
Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States	31
Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes	31
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	31
Black Squares for Black Lives? Performative Allyship as Credibility Maintenance for Social Media Influencers on Instagram	30
Studying Platforms and Cultural Production: Methods, Institutions, and Practices	30
Sharenting, Peer Influence, and Privacy Concerns: A Study on the Instagram-Sharing Behaviors of Parents in the United Kingdom	29
Fostering Dialogic Engagement: Toward an Architecture of Social Media for Social Change	29
Bit by (Twitch) Bit: “Platform Capture” and the Evolution of Digital Platforms	28
Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age	28
Feeling Asian Together: Coping With #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits	28
“Rewarding Good Creators”: Corporate Social Media Discourse on Monetization Schemes for Content Creators	28
Hunting Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic	27
Online Engagement Between Opposing Political Protest Groups via Social Media is Linked to Physical Violence of Offline Encounters	27
Demystifying Social Bots: On the Intelligence of Automated Social Media Actors	27
A Relationship-Centered and Culturally Informed Approach to Studying Misinformation on COVID-19	27
Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen	26
Interpretative Polarization across Platforms: How Political Disagreement Develops Over Time on Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp	25
The Promoter, Celebrity, and Joker Roles in Journalists’ Social Media Performance	25
Birds of a Feather Get Recommended Together: Algorithmic Homophily in YouTube’s Channel Recommendations in the United States and Germany	25
Influencer Management Tools: Algorithmic Cultures, Brand Safety, and Bias	25
It Is All About Location: Smartphones and Tracking the Spread of COVID-19	24
What Are Meaningful Social Interactions in Today’s Media Landscape? A Cross-Cultural Survey	23
The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization	23
Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign	22
Theorizing “Stories About Algorithms” as a Mechanism in the Formation and Maintenance of Algorithmic Imaginaries	22
Algorithmic Closeness in Mourning: Vernaculars of the Hashtag #grief on TikTok	22
The Strength of Weak Ties Revisited: Further Evidence of the Role of Strong Ties in the Provision of Online Social Support	21
Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region	21
COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter	21
“Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze	21
Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics, and Memory	21
Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users	20
Feeling Authentic on Social Media: Subjective Authenticity Across Instagram Stories and Posts	20
The Use of Telegram for Non-Consensual Dissemination of Intimate Images: Gendered Affordances and the Construction of Masculinities	20
Reluctant to Share: How Third Person Perceptions of Fake News Discourage News Readers From Sharing “Real News” on Social Media	19
Misinformation Concerns and Online News Participation among internet Users in India	19
“Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China	19
A Sadness Bias in Political News Sharing? The Role of Discrete Emotions in the Engagement and Dissemination of Political News on Facebook	19
What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain	19
Key Influencers in Public Diplomacy 2.0: A Country-Based Social Network Analysis	18
Digital Nomads and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Narratives About Relocation in a Time of Lockdowns and Reduced Mobility	18
A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being	18

A Conspiracy of Data: QAnon, Social Media, and Information Visualization	18
Affordances-Based Brand Relations: An Inquire on Memetic Brands on Instagram	18
The Field as a Black Box: Ethnographic Research in the Age of Platforms	18
One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	18
Catch 22: The Paradox of Social Media Affordances and Stigmatized Online Support Groups	18
Fact-Checking the Crisis: COVID-19, Infodemics, and the Platformization of Truth	18
The Drama of Metrics: Status, Spectacle, and Resistance Among YouTube Drama Creators	17
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges	17
Managing Diverse Online Networks in the Context of Polarization: Understanding How We Grow Apart on and through Social Media	17
Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing	16
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	16
Bots Amplify and Redirect Hate Speech in Online Discourse About Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
From Polarization to Hate: Portrait of the Spanish Political Meme	16
Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”	15
Applying the Uses and Gratifications Model to Examine Consequences of Social Media Addiction	15
Between the Mundane and the Political: Women’s Self-Representations on Instagram	15
Young Women’s Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition	15
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers	15
From “Oh, you’re Chinese . . . ” to “No bats, thx!”: Racialized Experiences of Australian-Based Chinese Queer Women in the Mobile Dating Context	15
The Roles of Worry, Social Media Information Overload, and Social Media Fatigue in Hindering Health Fact-Checking	15
Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore	15
Shouting Into the Wind: Medical Science versus “B.S.” in the Twitter Maelstrom of Politics and Misinformation About Hydroxychloroquine	15
Priming Effects of Social Media Use Scales on Well-Being Outcomes: The Influence of Intensity and Addiction Scales on Self-Reported Depression	14
Self-Tracking Health Over Time: From the Use of Instagram to Perform Optimal Health to the Protective Shield of the Digital Detox	14
Lifestyle Enclaves in the Instagram City?	14
Pathways Linking Media Use to Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mediated Moderation Study	14
Analysis of Ageism, Sexism, and Ableism in User Comments on YouTube Videos About Climate Activist Greta Thunberg	14
Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research	14
How Do Partisans Consume News on Social Media? A Comparison of Self-Reports With Digital Trace Measures Among Twitter Users	14
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	14
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	13
Shape Shifting Across Social Media	13
Copyright Gossip: Exploring Copyright Opinions, Theories, and Strategies on YouTube	13
Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social	13
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the COVID-19 Lockdown	13
Minimal Effects, Maximum Panic: Social Media and Democracy in Latin America	13
YouTube as Alternative Television in Russia: Political Videos During the Presidential Election Campaign 2018	13
#reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition	13
Curating and Exhibiting for the Pandemic: Participatory Virtual Art Practices During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China	13
The Biopolitics of Social Distancing	12
Platforming Intersectionality: Networked Solidarity and the Limits of Corporate Social Media	12
Migration Discourse in Sweden: Frames and Sentiments in Mainstream and Social Media	12
Disconnection: How Measured Separations From Journalistic Norms and Labor Can Help Sustain Journalism	12
“Coronavirus EXPLAINED”: YouTube, COVID-19, and the Socio-Technical Mediation of Expertise	12
Curating Quality? How Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News	12
Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction	12
The COVID-19 Mental Health Content Moderation Conundrum	11
Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition	11
Constructing Sexual Fields: Chinese Gay Men’s Dating Practices Among Pluralized Dating Apps	11
Unpacking Multimodal Fact-Checking: Features and Engagement of Fact-Checking Videos on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)	11
Troubling Dialogue and Digital Media: A Subaltern Critique	11
Tweeting Along Partisan Lines: Identity-Motivated Elaboration and Presidential Debates	11
“We Rewrote This Title”: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement	11
New Older Users’ Attitudes Toward Social Networking Sites and Loneliness: The Case of the Oldest-Old Residents in a Small Italian City	11
An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness: Comparing Perceptions of Algorithms Across Social Media Platforms	11
“I Wish I was Wearing a Filter Right Now”: An Exploration of Identity Formation and Subjectivity of 10- and 11-Year Olds’ Social Media Use	11
The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins	11
Blackfishing on Instagram: Influencing and the Commodification of Black Urban Aesthetics	11
Living in a Material World: Sponsored Instagram Posts and the Role of Materialism, Hedonic Enjoyment, Perceived Trust, and Need to Belong	10
A God-Tier LARP? QAnon as Conspiracy Fictioning	10
How Black Teen Girls Navigate Social Media to Form Romantic Relationships	10
Do We Know Politicians’ True Selves From the Media? Exploring the Relationship Between Political Media Exposure and Perceived Political Authenticity	10
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	10
Measuring Americans’ Comfort With Research Uses of Their Social Media Data	10
Depicting the Emotion Flow: Super-Spreaders of Emotional Messages on Weibo During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
#FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus	10
Cross-Cutting Discussion on Social Media and Online Political Participation: A Cross-National Examination of Information Seeking and Social Accountability Explanations	10
Beyond Clicktivism: What Makes Digitally Native Activism Effective? An Exploration of the Sleeping Giants Movement	10
Bartleby: Procedural and Substantive Ethics in the Design of Research Ethics Systems	10
More Than Just Shouting? Distinguishing Interpersonal-Directed and Elite-Directed Incivility in Online Political Talk	10
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States	10
Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions	10
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	9
Politics and Politeness: Analysis of Incivility on Twitter During the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary	9
Bounded or Boundless: A Case Study of Foreign Correspondents’ Use of Twitter During the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	9
#iamhere: Collective Counterspeech and the Quest to Improve Online Discourse	9
Be Yourself: The Relative Importance of Personal and Social Norms for Adolescents’ Self-Presentation on Instagram	9
The Role of Subjective Construals on Reporting and Reasoning about Social Media Use	9
The Institutional Impacts of Algorithmic Distribution: Facebook and the Australian News Media	9
Plurality in the Measurement of Social Media Use and Mental Health: An Exploratory Study Among Adolescents and Young Adults	9

Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms	9
Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms, and Ephemeral Content—Introduction to the Special Issue	9
“The Shade of It All”: How Black Women Use Instagram and YouTube to Contest Colorism in the Beauty Industry	9
The Sociomateriality of Rating and Ranking Devices on Social Media: A Case Study of Reddit’s Voting Practices	9
Political Messaging Over Time: A Comparison of US Presidential Candidate Facebook Posts and Tweets in 2016 and 2020	9
Sensitive Sharing on Social Media: Exploring Willingness to Disclose PrEP Usage Among Adolescent Males Who Have Sex With Males	9