Social Media + Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Media + Society is 11. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram168
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience136
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study124
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising104
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha90
Multi-Platform Social Media Use and Incidental Exposure: A Two-Step Analysis of the Conjoint and Distinct Roles of Network Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Across Platforms89
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization73
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe67
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter66
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom64
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion61
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse52
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach50
Gigs North and South48
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture47
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China45
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags43
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations42
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model41
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters40
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media38
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination38
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems36
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism36
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil35
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community35
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study35
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements34
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok34
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru33
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework33
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images32
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry32
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers32
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter32
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok32
Regionality of Messaging Applications: Everyday Socialization as a Gateway to Civic and Political Participation in China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States31
Under the Shadow of Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study Tracing the Pathway From Future Uncertainty to Psychological Distress Through Social Media Addiction and Emotional Exhaustion31
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok31
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins31
Examining the Role of Social Media and Imagined Communities in Addressing Social Welfare Gaps in Kenya30
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path30
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry30
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram29
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics29
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction27
Disconnecting in a Connected World: The Dynamics of Social Media Non-Use in a Platformized Society27
The Crooked Platform26
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy26
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem26
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites26
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook26
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products26
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places25
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path25
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes25
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria25
Hashtags and Hope: Tracing Chinese Digital Spirituality Through #WishMeABabyBoy Trend on Xiaohongshu (Rednote)25
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms25
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media24
Journalists, Emotions, and the Introduction of Generative AI Chatbots: A Large-Scale Analysis of Tweets Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT24
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram24
Bystanders and Reporters: Who Acts Against Illegal Online Content?24
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?23
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation23
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India23
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media23
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 Publics22
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China22
Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media21
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective21
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness21
Instrumental Bot Identities and the Politics of Online Discourse20
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media20
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media19
Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal19
The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity19
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels19
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok19
Escaping the Spectacle: Anti-Check-in as an Algorithmic Culture Jamming Strategy on Social Media19
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages19
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response19
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?19
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods18
#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes18
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways18
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker17
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War17
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online17
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics17
The TikTok Caliphate: How Jihadist Supporters Exploit Algorithmic Recommendations and Evade Content Moderation17
Digitally Constructing Marginalized Neurodivergence: Understanding South Asian Diasporic Autism and ADHD Communities on TikTok17
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding17
The AI Referee: How Online Interventions Shape Incivility and User Engagement in News Discussions16
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data16
Social Media has Aged, It’s Time It Got Wise16
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat16
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers16
Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Motivations Behind the Dissemination of Conspiracy Theories Online15
Social Media Influencers as “Dirty Workers”: An Explorative Study on How They Use Strategies to Reduce the Moral Taint15
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms15
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)15
Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the Special Issue15
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online15
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey15
Screens of Sorrow, Echoes of Spirit: Transcultural Mourning and Affective Fandom Publics Across Chinese and Western Platforms Over 5 Years15
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture15
From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter15
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain14
Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars14
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic14
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India14
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production14
In the Mood for Likes: A Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations’ Emotional Communication on Social Media14
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.014
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online14
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook14
Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 202314
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis14
The Conjuncture of Intentionality, Facticity, and Identity: Exposure to Disinformation and Malinformation on Social Media and Their Association With Ethnic Polarization14
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics14
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media13
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories13
A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism13
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media13
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong13
How #TaiwanCanHelp Reverberates: An Exploratory Analysis of Advocacy Hashtag on Twitter13
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter13
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 Fr13
Coping With Digital Hostility: How Witnessing and Receiving Hate Speech Elicit Divergent Responses13
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments13
Techno Music and Luxury Yachts: The Misogynesque Audiovisual Affective Codes of TikTok Manfluencers13
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians13
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions13
“You Are Not Fat”: The Postfeminist Contradiction in #RejectBodyAnxiety—A Computationally Assisted Critical Thematic Analysis12
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil12
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey12
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit12
Unshareable: Non-Sharing Grief and Grievabilities on Social Media12
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden12
Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea12
Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech12
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 Pandemic12
Understanding Engagement With Platform Safety Technology for Reducing Exposure to Online Harms12
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault11
Older Adults’ Response Strategies to Misinformation on Social Media11
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks11
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance11
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook11
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election11
Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity11
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement11
Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge11
Should I Post When a Loved One Passes Away?: Digital Mourning and Emotional Norms on WeChat Moments11
Misogyny as a Structural Hub: Unveiling a Mode of Opportunity Structure for Chinese Alternative Communities11
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study11
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 Plebiscite11
Corrigendum to “How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives”11
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context11
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media11
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers11
Shadows and Light: Unveiling Multifaceted Polarization in Social Media Discourse on Human Trafficking11
Local Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Place-Based Conflicts in Russia11
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter11
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