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- Launched in 2015
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Social Media + Society (SM+S) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.
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- by Taylor AnnabellUtrecht University, The NetherlandsSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. This article examines the construction of the ideal influencer across two sites of articulation within the influencer ecology: influencer coaches and platforms. It seeks to make visible the normative model that underpins and regulates influencer …
- by Petter TörnbergUniversity of Amsterdam, NetherlandsSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Social media are becoming a growing presence in our cities, filtering our experience of urban place and enabling locations to “go viral.” This article examines the downstream consequences of this new reality, examining how the urban actors who shape the …
- by Jingyan Elaine Yuan, Lin ZhangSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. The “platform turn” across various disciplines has introduced a new framework for analyzing the global digital economy. This special issue critically engages with existing discussions by adopting a broad political-economic perspective on the platform …
- by Adina Gitomer, Erika Melder, Brooke Foucault WellesNortheastern University, USASocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. After the Canadian oil corporation Enbridge proposed replacing its Line 3 pipeline in 2014, activists began protesting against its environmental risks and violations of Indigenous rights, among other concerns. As the pipeline’s construction progressed and …
- by Adrienne Evans, Jessica RingroseSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. In this article, we extend the concept of “postdigital intimacies” by developing its more-than-human and more-than-digital capacities. We argue that while we have witnessed a gradual flattening out of the digital and non-digital, our institutions, …
- by Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Jonas ToubølUniversity of Copenhagen, DenmarkSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. The ability of informal social media networks to facilitate civic participation is a major topic of political and scholarly debate. Some studies find that social media networks support little, low-cost, periodic, and demographically biased civic …
- by Yash Vekaria, Zubair Shafiq, Savvas ZannettouSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Online platforms have enacted various policies to maintain a safe and trustworthy advertising environment. However, the extent to which these policies are adhered to and enforced remains a subject of interest and concern. In this work, we present a large-…
- by Zehang XieShanghai Jiao Tong University, ChinaSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Generative chatbots based on artificial intelligence technology have become an essential channel for people to obtain health information. They provide not only comprehensive health information but also real-time virtual companionship. However, the health …
- by Rim H. Chaif, Christopher E. EtheridgeThe University of Kansas, USASocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Public and vocal calls by Algerian feminist groups to revise restrictive laws about women during the 2019 Hirak (“protest” in Arabic) were met with physical and online violence from both pro-government and reformist groups. Theories considering the role …
- by Ta’Les LoveGrand Valley State University, USASocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Research on the beauty influencer economy highlights the role that racism plays in platform labor, as race is a prominent determinant in the hierarchy of influencers. While the literature on beauty influencers reveals the multi-faceted labor necessary for …
- by Anu Masso, Andrew Grotto, Tracey P. LauriaultSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Transborder data flows offer opportunities, such as health data sharing, but they also bring risk. Research has explored the tensions between transnational and regional linkages, striving to understand when transborder flows of data bring benefits or …
- by Daniel Montez, Dam Hee KimSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Digital media allow users the ability to engage in and be exposed to trolling. Although many people may enjoy the occasional opportunity to witness others being trolled, a relative minority directly troll others, those whom we can labelovert trolls. …
- by Haoning Xue, Jingwen Zhang, Xinzhi ZhangSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Emotionality is a well-established strategy for boosting audience engagement on social media. While fact-checking is positioned to provide objective information, fact-checking posts on social media often involve heightened emotionality. How much …
- by Saif Shahin, Mingyi HouTilburg University, The NetherlandsSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. The #StopAsianHate hashtag movement emerged as a challenge to the rising tide of racism in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic and contributed to the legislation of the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act. Our research brings together concepts from …
- by Lianrui JiaUniversity of Sheffield, UKSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. This article challenges the common tendency to pinpoint a “nationality” to a multi-national capitalist platform company. It calls for a close examination of how platform companies, as capitalist enterprises, organize themselves legally and spatially. The …
- by Holland P. Kowalkowski, Angela D. R. SmithThe University of Texas at Austin, USASocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Drawing on figured worlds and geographies of selves frameworks, we use critical ethnographic methods to explore three Latina teenagers’ experiences and ideas about social media and identity that were expressed throughout a Youth Participatory Action …
- by Job Allan Wefwafwa, Bob Wekesa, Iginio GagliardoneUniversity of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Social media has enhanced culturally grounded debates and ethnicity-based exclusionism during Kenya’s WhatsApp group deliberations. These practices are often more pronounced during elections when WhatsApp becomes a social media platform of choice for …
- by S. Nisa Asgarali-HoffmanUniversity of Maryland, USASocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. This article presents an analysis of YouTube videos wherein creators reveal the results of their direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry tests. I analyze these reveal videos, their comment threads, and the role of YouTube in hosting these videos, to capture …
- by Ngai Keung ChanThe Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Weaving together relational approaches to collective action as well as the concepts of platform architecture and social media affordances, this qualitative study examines the manifestation and contestation of worker solidarity in the platform-mediated gig …
- by Nathalie Van Raemdonck, Ike Picone, Jo PiersonSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2025. Social norms are flexible regulating forces of human behavior. They are shaped by humans, whose actions in turn are shaped by their environment, including the online social spaces they venture into. The objective of this research is to create an …