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Prospective relationships between appearance-based social media use and adolescent mental health 基于外表的社交媒体使用与青少年心理健康之间的潜在关系

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261439090

Cameron J Ragg, Ronald M Rapee, Jasmine Fardouly

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Echo chamber dynamics on social media 社交媒体上的回音室动态

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261441872

Carlos Diaz Ruiz

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Unintended politics: Opinion expression and incivility in incidental political discussion 无意的政治：偶然政治讨论中的意见表达和不礼貌

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261441875

Yibin Fan, Benjamin Mako Hill, Patricia Moy

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Strategic visibility in precarious times: Ethnoreligious content creators and algorithmic navigation on Instagram 不稳定时期的战略可见度：Instagram上的民族宗教内容创作者和算法导航

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261446580

Gabrielle D. Beacken

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Disconnective practices and partisan polarization: Persian Twitter’s fragmented public sphere 分离的做法和党派分化：波斯语推特支离破碎的公共领域

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261433479

Mohammad Rahbari, Hadi Safari, Ali Nanvayi

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From For You to the family table: Adolescent consumer learning and reverse socialization on TikTok 从为你到家庭餐桌：TikTok上的青少年消费者学习和反向社会化

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261443533

Bo Dhondt, Dieneke Van de Sompel, Liselot Hudders

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Charismatic machines: On the epistemic power of generative AI within platform convergence 魅力机器：论平台融合中生成式人工智能的认知能力

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261441417

Mauro Barisione

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Mitigating the News-Finds-Me Perception: Evaluating the intended (and unintended) effects of educational warnings on political learning 减轻新闻发现我的感觉：评估教育警告对政治学习的有意（和无意）影响

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261438455

Eunchae Jang, Mengqi Liao, Chris Skurka, Homero Gil de Zúñiga

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From search engines to AI agents: Interface control and the restructuring of communication power 从搜索引擎到人工智能代理：界面控制与通信能力重组

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261437812

Juan Ortiz-Freuler, Manuel Castells

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Erratum to “Flattening the News: Platformisation and the Erosion of Topical Diversity Across News Outlet Types” 《新闻扁平化：平台化和新闻媒体类型主题多样性的侵蚀》的勘误

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2026-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/14614448261447138

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