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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 Yueming Luo, Yu-Leung NgSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Sharing memes has emerged as a prevalent form of social grooming behavior on digital platforms, yet research has largely focused on the content of internet memes rather than the behavior of sharing them. This study explores whether sharing memes with …
- by Caitlin HoganSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This study investigates the social meaning of softblocking, a practice on social media in which a user blocks and then immediately unblocks another user, causing a mutual unfollowing. This study finds that softblocking highlights that social media users …
- by Elena Maris, Mel MonierSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. In this article, we critically analyze TikTok videos related to the #MelaninMansion trend and the #BlackTikTokStrike. Videos analyzed were posted during the hashtags’ peak engagement, 2019–2020, and the summer of 2021, respectively. Drawing from Black …
- by Claudia GerhardsSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Since social media influencers have become popular and monetize their content with the help of advertising deals, they have been associated with morally questionable, deceptive behavior. The list of misconduct is long. It includes, for example, not …
- by Caitlin E. Lawson, Cecilia R. HaffertySocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. r/fundiesnarkuncensored is a Reddit community that monitors and critiques fundamentalist Christian, namely evangelical, content creators. Many members of the community were formerly conservative Christians who have since deconstructed some or all of their …
- by Jessica Kühn, Claudia RiesmeyerSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Adolescents’ self-presentation on social media as an expression of identity development is influenced by personal norms and perceived social norms of relevant others. Snapchat is popular and widely used by adolescents to express themselves. A Bitmoji, as …
- by Moira WeigelSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This article examines the key role that Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs have played in the growth of Amazon and the varied ways in which they interact with its marketplace platform. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, I highlight …
- by Daniel Greene, Zothan MawiiSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This commentary investigates platformization in global south and global north labor markets, arguing they are linked via a process of uneven and combined development. Focusing on platformization in India and the United States, we briefly describe long-…
- by Haiwei Valerie HuangSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. As the space for discussing feminism and related issues on domestic social media platforms in China narrows, Chinese women and feminists are increasingly seeking new platforms that provide a more supportive digital environment for advancing gender …
- Aspirational Politics of Talent Acquisition: Entrepreneurial Limits and Indian Short Video Platformsby Rahul MukherjeeUniversity of Pennsylvania, USASocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Local short video platforms in India such as Moj and Josh have encountered mixed success in wooing talented creators and new users to their platforms. Some of the challenges they have faced suggest the limits of aspirational politics which is entangled …
- by Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Sanjay R. KairamSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. In the void left by struggling local media, localized social media systems have proliferated on the web as key avenues for the exchange of location-specific information. Yet, as local ecosystems shift, there is a need to understand the types of audiences …
- by Diyi LiuSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. The governance of online speech is increasingly a battleground shaped by competing social expectations. This study investigates TikTok’s content moderation in Indonesia and Pakistan, two countries with vast market potential and delicate social and moral …
- by Hannah Ditchfield, Stefania VicariSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Digital platforms have long been understood as important spaces where identity performance takes place with networks and interpersonal interaction forming the basis of many theoretical approaches to self. Due to TikTok’s distinctive technical structure, …
- by Xiaomei Sun, Xining Liao, Hernando RojasSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Although there is a growing number of studies examining the political significance of messaging applications, the regional aspects of messaging applications have been overlooked by many in a global market dominated by American digital platforms. This …
- by Niels G. Mede, Lara Kobilke, Nayla Fawzi, Thomas ZerbackSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Research suggests that social media can cause users, especially young adults, to overestimate their knowledge about climate change. Knowledge overestimation may then lead users to communicate more frequently about climate change with others. We test these …
- by Nikolaos ToumarasSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Digital activists play a pivotal role in fostering local democracy, civic participation, and social advocacy across sub-Saharan Africa. Using technological, social, and discursive layers of communication, these activists navigate complex socio-political …
- by Lin ZhangSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This article maps China’s emerging governance regime of big tech firms in the 2020s through the case of Alibaba. Contesting dominant media narratives that frame the Chinese state as either clashing with or aligning with private platforms, it provides an …
- by Josephine Lukito, Maggie Macdonald, Bin Chen, Megan A. Brown, Stephen Prochaska, Yunkang Yang, Jason Greenfield, Jiyoun Suk, Wei Zhong, Ross Dahlke, Porismita BorahSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. In this multi-platform, comparative study, we analyze social media messages from political candidates (N= 1,517) running for Congress during the 2022 U.S. Midterm election. We collect data from seven social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Truth …
- by Fernanda OdillaSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This article examines social media’s role in the “online-offline nexus,” focusing on how digital interactions translate into sustained, large-scale, right-wing protests. Using Brazil as a case study, the research combines document analysis with non-…
- by Ayumi Matsuda-RiveroSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. TikTok has become an important digital space for solidarity among underrepresented groups. However, it is also a space where stereotypes and offensive jokes are proliferated through unique affordances such as “Use This Sound.” For this study, I focused on …