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Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook Facebook上关于COVID-19的讨论中的不文明和不宽容

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231207848

Martina Novotná, Alena Macková, Patrícia Rossini

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Filtering the I From the Ideal: Examining Preadolescents’ Online Self-Presentation in Relation to Their Perceived Attractiveness 从理想中过滤自我:检查青春期前的在线自我表现与其感知吸引力的关系

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231205598

Anneleen Meeus, Geert Everaert, Steven Eggermont, Kathleen Beullens

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Emotion Work on Social Media: Differences in Public and Private Emotions about Politics and COVID-19 on Facebook 社交媒体上的情绪工作:Facebook上关于政治和COVID-19的公共和私人情绪的差异

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231207853

Emily Van Duyn, Ashley Muddiman

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Memeing Politics: Understanding Political Meme Creators, Audiences, and Consequences on Social Media 模因政治:理解社交媒体上的政治模因创造者、受众和后果

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231205588

Audrey Halversen, Brian E. Weeks

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The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content Affects Perceptions of Mental Health Care 社交媒体的力量:污名化的内容影响人们对精神卫生保健的看法

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231207847

Sarah K. Competiello, George Y. Bizer, D. Catherine Walker

{"title":"The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content Affects Perceptions of Mental Health Care","authors":"Sarah K. Competiello, George Y. Bizer, D. Catherine Walker","doi":"10.1177/20563051231207847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207847","url":null,"abstract":"A great discrepancy exists between the number of people who experience mental health concerns and the number of people who seek help for those problems. Negative attitudes toward mental health treatment contribute to this discrepancy. In the current study, we tested the extent to which exposure to social media posts that derogate mental health treatment increases such negative attitudes. Participants were exposed to 10 ostensibly real Twitter posts. Whereas some participants viewed 10 posts that did not relate to mental health, others viewed five such innocuous posts interspersed with five posts that derogated mental health treatment. Participants then reported their levels of mental health self-stigma and attitudes toward help-seeking. These dependent variables were combined into a single measure of stigma toward mental health treatment. Results indicated that among men and among women high in feminine gender role espousal, there was no effect of the manipulation on stigma against mental health treatment. However, women low in feminine gender role espousal were impacted by the manipulation: Among these women, the stigmatizing tweets increased the extent to which they stigmatized mental health services. Our research thus shows that even brief exposure to messages derogating mental health treatment may have a profound impact on associated attitudes but that such effects are moderated by gender identification and the extent to which people espouse traditional gender roles.","PeriodicalId":234791,"journal":{"name":"Social media and society","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136128470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mediated (Un)Doing Family: Cross-Border Parenting in Chinese Families 调解(Un)做家庭:中国家庭的跨界育儿

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231211941

Chuyue Ou, Todd Sandel, Zhongxuan Lin

{"title":"Mediated (Un)Doing Family: Cross-Border Parenting in Chinese Families","authors":"Chuyue Ou, Todd Sandel, Zhongxuan Lin","doi":"10.1177/20563051231211941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231211941","url":null,"abstract":"This article elucidates the emergence of technology-empowered family practices that cross-border families develop to re-spatialize and re-temporalize their family activities and daily rhythms. Standing on the concepts of “doing family” and polymedia, we propose a dual framework of mediated doing/undoing family and explain it in an integrated WeChat environment. Specifically, the frame contains three pairs of dimensions: active versus inactive, everyday co-presence versus absent-presence and invisibility, and historical roots versus anti-traditions. Drawing on a 2-year ethnography of cross-border students communicating with their parents, we use the frame to further illuminate a set of dialectical relations between mediated doing and undoing family, and between cultural motherhood and fatherhood—culturally (un)doing gender. Findings fill gaps in the existing literature on the undoing affordances of technologies, and supplement insights on the experiences of transnational/cross-border parenthood. Our study also discusses the dual dynamics of mediated (un)doing family and presents a critical reflection on the effects of technology on gender asymmetries and gender dynamics.","PeriodicalId":234791,"journal":{"name":"Social media and society","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136203846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online 非性别化的图片和身体中性的信息在网上培养身体的积极性

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231207852

Kyla N. Brathwaite, David C. DeAndrea, Megan A. Vendemia

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Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe 数字技能和数字知识是抵御网络错误信息的缓冲?一项针对欧洲年轻人的调查研究结果

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231207859

Joyce Vissenberg, David De Coninck, Giovanna Mascheroni, Willem Joris, Leen d’Haenens

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“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria “日本”:社交媒体在尼日利亚外迁趋势中的作用探索性研究

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231203691

Damilola Adegoke

{"title":"“Japa”: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Social Media in an Out-Migration Trend in Nigeria","authors":"Damilola Adegoke","doi":"10.1177/20563051231203691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231203691","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to understand the roles of social media in the new “Japa” migration trend in Nigeria. As part of this main objective, the study investigates the demographic characteristics of these new migrants—their age, gender, and socioeconomic status classifications. It also explores the challenges experienced by these new migrants before leaving and after arriving at their destination countries and asks if and how social media mitigates these challenges. The participants consist of Nigerians who lived in the United Kingdom ( N = 18; 48.6%), Canada ( N = 5; 13.5%), the United States ( N = 10; 27%), Sweden ( N = 1; 2.7%), and France ( N = 3; 8.1%). They were aged between 26 and 48 years, with an average age of 32.5. There were 22 (59.5%) men and 15 women (40.5%) in the study. The study finds little to no evidence to support the conclusion of a more direct influence of social media on the migration decision of this Japa migration trend among the cohort interviewed. More conservative social media platforms were preferred to other, more open social networking categories. Also crucially important is the role of trust engendered by offline social network ties (including family kinship and friendship) of online influencers. The display of affluence as a motivating factor could not be conclusively established; other factors like socioeconomic, insecurity, career prospects, and unemployment were mentioned as more important. Social media applications were recognized as information-gathering tools rather than inspirational or motivational sources for the Japa migration enterprise.","PeriodicalId":234791,"journal":{"name":"Social media and society","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135963646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Will Using Social Media Benefit or Harm Users’ Self-Esteem? It Depends on Perceived Relational-Closeness 使用社交媒体对用户的自尊是有益还是有害?这取决于感知到的亲密关系

Social media and society Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231203680

Yang Han, Feng Yang

{"title":"Will Using Social Media Benefit or Harm Users’ Self-Esteem? It Depends on Perceived Relational-Closeness","authors":"Yang Han, Feng Yang","doi":"10.1177/20563051231203680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231203680","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research concerning social media use and self-esteem showed inconsistent findings. In the current research, two studies were conducted to examine the moderating role of perceived relational-closeness between social media use and self-esteem, and the underlying mediating mechanisms. In Study 1 (a quasi-experimental study), by assigning participants to the weak (reporting TikTok use intensity) or strong (reporting WeChat use intensity) relational-closeness condition, we found that using social media with weak relational-closeness harmed users’ self-esteem, while using social media with strong relational-closeness benefited users’ self-esteem. Moreover, participants in the strong relational-closeness condition reported higher social support perception and self-esteem than those in the weak relational-closeness condition. Further analyses showed that upward social comparison mediated the relationship between social media use and self-esteem in the weak relational-closeness; in the strong relational-closeness condition, upward social comparison and perceived social support both mediated the relationship between social media use and self-esteem, but perceived social support played a dominant role in the mediating effects. In Study 2 (an experimental study), we presented the same examination experiences-sharing for all participants. We found that, even exposed to the same stimuli, participants in the strong relational-closeness condition (declaring that the experiences-sharing was extracted from QQ) still reported higher social support perception and self-esteem than those participants in the weak relational-closeness condition (declaring that the experiences-sharing was extracted from Bilibili). The current research provided a possible explanation to reconcile previously inconsistent findings about social media use and self-esteem.","PeriodicalId":234791,"journal":{"name":"Social media and society","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135850133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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