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- Launched in 2015
- A broad selection of published Special Collections
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 Christoph Lutz, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, Dmitry Epstein, Philipp K. Masur, Carsten WilhelmSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This editorial introduces theSocial Media + Societyspecial issue “Comparative Approaches To Studying Privacy.” Recognizing the importance of privacy in today’s digital societies and volatile political and regulatory environments, the editorial …
- by Alice Mattoni, Julie Uldam, Noomi WeinrybSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. A few social media platforms have come to play a central role in civil society organizing, often functioning as organizing partners. But on whose terms? As organizing partners, commercial social media platforms shape the conditions under which civil …
- by Cindy TekobbeSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. The author of this article contends that current digital research methodologies tend to extract and commodify knowledge in ways that can replicate social, cultural, racial, economic, and global inequities. This article presents an Indigenous approach to …
- by Joanna Large, Natasha MulvihillSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Situated within the theoretical work of Giddens and others on the role ofexpertisein contemporary society, this article evaluates the Instagram accounts of six dating-themed influencers. We seek to understand the role and strategies of these “new …
- by Jindong Leo-Liu, Biying Wu-OuyangSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms have unleashed new possibilities to reimagine Marshall McLuhan’s classic idea of the “global village” in the digital era. We situated our inquiry in the case of identity negotiation between Chinese mainlanders and …
- by Hendrik Meyer, Louisa Pröschel, Michael BrüggemannSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Examining how different forms of climate protest affect social media debates is critical to understanding their role within societal climate policy discourse. This study compares debates surrounding disruptive and non-disruptive movements on Twitter/X, …
- by Nils Gustafsson, Nils Holmberg, Noomi Weinryb, Anders Olof LarssonSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Emotional communication, especially through social media platforms, has become a contemporary populist threat. While this phenomenon has been studied in for example news media and social movements, we know less about its influence on civil society …
- by Line Nybro Petersen, Mikkel Bækby JohansenSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. New trends in online extremism are currently unsettling the typical classifications used to assess violent threats to democratic societies. While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and …
- by Mark Friis HauSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This article draws on the theories of Max Weber to explore how social media can redefine organization and hierarchy in the contemporary labor movement. Through a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative analysis of social media posts and in-depth …
- by Caley Hewitt, Fanny A. Ramirez, Anna GjikaSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Using survey data from a sample of 378 women who live in the United States and self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study explores predictors of women’s digital monitoring practices in intimate relationships in the context of intimate partner …
- by Manxin Xu, Renyi HeSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Micro-celebrities have become an integral part of social media culture, engaging with small but loyal audiences even if they do not generate significant income or wield substantial social influence. This study explores a particular subset of micro-…
- by Altman Yuzhu Peng, Yu Sun, Chunyan WuSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Advancing an affective-discursive approach, this article examines how distant witnessing bolsters digital activist organizing that challenges a Southern authoritarian regime’s nationalist politics on international social media. The research foregrounds an …
- by Nic DePaula, Sten HanssonSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Social media communication of government agencies should ideally be truthful and impartial to sustain public trust in government and support democratic goals. However, the politicization of agencies may harm the benefits that impartial and engaged …
- by Emilia Lounela, Shane Murphy, Ümit BedretdinSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This study unpacks the implicit and explicit political functions nostalgia takes in incel discussions on the past on the incels.is forum. By combining a discourse theoretical approach with the theoretical framework of fantasy, the study demonstrates how …
- by Elías Chavarría-MoraSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. What are the data protection policies in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region? The developments over the last two decades on massive data collection, as well as the developments in computational power and data science methods appropriate for …
- by Yao-Tai LiSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. The 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Movement (Anti-ELAB Movement) in Hong Kong has been seen as a successful civil society organizing characterized by its decentralized, leaderless, and networked nature using various social media platforms. Drawing on …
- by Rita Tang, Benjamin Burnley, Leticia Bode, Emily K. VragaSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Of the many solutions to address political misinformation spreading on social media, user correction holds special promise for connective democracy given its emphasis on prioritizing user autonomy and fostering communication and connections across lines …
- by Sarah Shugars, Eunbin HaSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. While social media optimistically holds the potential to ameliorate political divides by increasing cross-cutting political talk, numerous studies suggest that social media has instead exacerbated political polarization. Yet, social media is incredibly …
- by Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura VoddenSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. This article introduces the analytical approach ofpractice mapping, using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement …
- by Katharina EsauSocial Media + Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Conflict and disagreement are integral to healthy democracies, but the extreme polarization observed on many social media platforms poses a serious risk to the core functions of public communication. This theoretical article draws on the concept of …