Social Media + Society

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Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	198
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	118
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	95
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	73
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	64
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	61
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	59
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	50
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	48
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	47
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	45
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	42
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	39
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	38
A Self-Critical Public: Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests	37
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies	37
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	36
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	36
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	35
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	32
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	30
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	29
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	29
Gigs North and South	28
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach	27

Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	27
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	27
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	27
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	27
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	27
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	25
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	24
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	24
Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins	24
How Do Silent Trolls Become Overt Trolls? Fear of Punishment and Online Disinhibition Moderate the Trolling Path	23
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	23
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok	23
Regionality of Messaging Applications: Everyday Socialization as a Gateway to Civic and Political Participation in China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States	22
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	22
Examining the Role of Social Media and Imagined Communities in Addressing Social Welfare Gaps in Kenya	22
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	21
Branded Dreams, Boss Babes: Influencer Retreats and the Cultural Logics of the Influencer Para-Industry	21
Taking Humor Seriously on TikTok	21
Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction	20
Behind Blue Skies: A Multimodal Automated Content Analysis of Islamic Extremist Propaganda on Instagram	20
“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists	20
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	20
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	20
An Angry, Hopeful, or Efficacious Citizen: Information, Emotion, and Participation in an Emerging Democracy	19
Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics	19
Under the Shadow of Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study Tracing the Pathway From Future Uncertainty to Psychological Distress Through Social Media Addiction and Emotional Exhaustion	19
Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites	19
A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites	18
Brooms and Ballots: #WitchTheVote, the Nostalgic Internet, and Intersectional Feminist Politics on Instagram	18
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes	18
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms	18
Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?	18
The Crooked Platform	18
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places	18
Affective Affordances, Networked Status Quo, and Climate Communication: An Analysis of the Mobilization of Affect on Facebook	18
Shadow Politics: Commercial Digital Influencers, “Data,” and Disinformation in India	18
Examining How Social and Emotional Factors Inform Response to Cross-Cutting Political Views on Social Media	18
Reimagining the Personal Network: The Case of Path	17
The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem	17
Heating Up: How Early Twitter Marketing Gave Rise to Organic Word-of-Mouth About Heated Tobacco Products	17
Twitter Campaigning Strategies in Australian Federal Elections 2013–2019	17
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation	17
The Protective Role of the Internet in Depression for Europeans Aged 50+ Living Alone	17
Social Media and Political Dissent in Russia and Belarus: An Introduction to the Special Issue	17
The Evolution of #MeToo: A Comparative Analysis of Vernacular Practices Over Time and Across Languages	16
Signifyin’ “Black in China” and Sharing Black Pathos: Libidinal Energies in Vlogs Produced by Black YouTubers in China	16
Journalists, Emotions, and the Introduction of Generative AI Chatbots: A Large-Scale Analysis of Tweets Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT	16
Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?	16
Digital Battlegrounds: The Interplay of Social Media, State Power, and Influencers in Türkiye’s Earthquake Response	16
Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media	16

The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity	16
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	16
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok	16
“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria	16
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways	15
#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes	15
The Subtle Spread of Hateful Memes: Examining Engagement Intentions Among Parents of Adolescents	15
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods	15
Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels	15
Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness	15
Relational Mobility and Problematic Internet Use: A Person–Environment Interactionist Perspective	15
Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal	15
“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media	15
Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022)	14
Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social Media, Body, and Violence in Changing Urban Politics	14
The Black Pill: (Re)conceptualizing the Black Right in the Era of YouTube Influencers	14
Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding	14
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front: The Case of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data	14
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat	14
Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the Special Issue	14
From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter	14
Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online	13
Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture	13
Social Media Influencers as “Dirty Workers”: An Explorative Study on How They Use Strategies to Reduce the Moral Taint	13
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis	13
Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production	13
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms	13
Discursive Strategies of Blaming: The Language of Judgment and Political Protest Online	13
Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War	13
Business as Usual? Assessing Amplified Political Posts Across Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker	13
The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey	13
Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook	13
Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States	13
In the Mood for Likes: A Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations’ Emotional Communication on Social Media	12
From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media	12
“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions	12
Fighting Fire With Fire? Relegitimizing Strategies for Media Institutions Faced With Unwarranted “Fake News” Accusations	12
“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India	12
Posting Back: Exploring Platformed Black Feminist Communities on Twitter and Instagram	12
Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments	12
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics	12
Dynamics of Platform Architecture and Labor Unrest: Mobilizing and Contesting Solidarity in the 2021–2022 Foodpanda Delivery Rider Strikes in Hong Kong	12
Social Media Natives’ Invisible Online Spaces: Proposing the Concept of Digital Gemeinschaft 2.0	11
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians	11
Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter	11
On the Meme Train to Sylt: Memetic Becoming and Ambivalent Identification Online	11
Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice	11
How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil	11
Instagram Photo Sharing and Its Relationships With Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Well-Being	11
Hinting at the Third Path to the Future of Data Rights: An Empirical Study of the Steemit Blockchain	11
The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media	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	10
Market in the Fragmented State: Alibaba and the Chinese Governance Regime of Big Tech	10
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	10
YOLO Publics: The Potential for Creative Subversion of an Online Trading Community	10
Live Free and Die: How Social Media Amplify Populist Vaccine Resistance	10
Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement	10
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit	10
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey	10
The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok	10
How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives	10
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks	10
A Right-Wing Wave on TikTok? Ideological Orientations, Platform Features, and User Engagement During the Early 2022 Election Campaign in Sweden	10
Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories	10
Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter	10
Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook	10
The Dynamics of Event-Based Political Influencers on Twitter: A Longitudinal Analysis of Influential Accounts During Chinese Political Events	10
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study	10
A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers	9
Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms	9
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	9
Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies	9
Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault	9
Local Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Place-Based Conflicts in Russia	9
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media	9
API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution	9
Why Bystanders (Don’t) Post About Violence: Contextualizing Individual Versus Socialized Rationales of Observers’ Publication Intentions	8
When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking	8

Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge	8
Mapping the Russian Political Influence Ecosystem: The Night Wolves Biker Gang	8
Bodies, Brands, and Bullies: Culture Jamming and the Livestreaming of Engagement	8
A God-Tier LARP? QAnon as Conspiracy Fictioning	8
“Intervening Is a Good Thing but . . .”: The Role of Social Norms in Users’ Justifications of (Non-)Intervention Against Incivility	8
Grindr Tourism Among Tourists, Locals, and Immigrants: Dating App Impacts for Social Relations, Gay Tourism, and Digital Convergence	8
Walking Through Firewalls: Circumventing Censorship of Social Media and Online Content in a Networked Authoritarian Context	8
Who Gets Exposed to Political Misinformation in a Hybrid Media Environment? The Case of the 2019 Indonesian Election	8
A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After Implementation of the PIPL	8
“Right-Wing Safe Space” Versus “Comrade Major”: Media Ideologies of Far-Right Russian Social Media Users	8
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences	8
“Cash Masters” Coming Out as “Straight”: Social Media and the Changing Dynamics of Gender and Sexuality	8
Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective	8
A Qualitative Analysis of How Individuals Utilized the Twitter Hashtags #NotOkay and #MeToo to Comment on the Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence	8
Shadows and Light: Unveiling Multifaceted Polarization in Social Media Discourse on Human Trafficking	8
Bots Versus Humans: Discursive Activism During the Pandemic in the Iranian Twittersphere	8
Twitter Users’ Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach	8
German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis	8