Social Media in the Scam Age

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI:10.1177/20563051261437922

Lana Swartz

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Abstract

This essay examines scams as a central organizing logic of contemporary social media rather than peripheral criminal activity. Drawing on research in cryptocurrency and financial technology alongside childhood experiences in 1990s Miami, the piece argues that social media is entering a “scam age” where boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity increasingly blur and the technological and social systems that make those distinctions are being rebuilt. It calls for social media scholars to explore the work that scams—and the idea of “scams”—do in the production of social media, the future, and the future of social media.

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诈骗时代的社交媒体

本文将诈骗视为当代社交媒体的中心组织逻辑，而不是外围犯罪活动。根据对加密货币和金融技术的研究以及20世纪90年代迈阿密的童年经历，这篇文章认为，社交媒体正在进入一个“骗局时代”，在这个时代，合法和非法经济活动之间的界限越来越模糊，区分这些区别的技术和社会系统正在重建。它呼吁社会媒体学者探索诈骗和“诈骗”的概念在社会媒体的生产、未来和社会媒体的未来中所做的工作。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.