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“Turns Out My Paternal Grandmother has 16% Native Blood”: Racialized DNA, Race Destabilization, and Digital Race-(re)making on Social Media 《原来我的祖母有16%的本土血统》：种族化的DNA、种族不稳定和社交媒体上的数字种族（再）制造

IF 5.2 1区文学

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261478877

Yukun Yang, Meredith D. Clark

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Social Robots and the Dialectics of Presence and Absence 社会机器人与在场与缺席的辩证法

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261479988

Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, Bryan Abendschein

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Humilitainment 2.0: Platformed Crime Entertainment and Digital Carcerality on YouTube 羞辱娱乐2.0:YouTube上的平台犯罪娱乐和数字娱乐

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261474691

Krysten Stein

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Antecedents of Disclosure: What Transparency Measures Social Media Users in the United States Want From Paid Political Influencers 披露的前提：美国社交媒体用户希望从付费的政治影响者那里获得什么样的透明度措施

IF 5.2 1区文学

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261480944

Martin J. Riedl, Benjamin D. Horne, Matthew J. A. Craig, Michael R. Kotowski, Catherine A. Luther

{"title":"Antecedents of Disclosure: What Transparency Measures Social Media Users in the United States Want From Paid Political Influencers","authors":"Martin J. Riedl, Benjamin D. Horne, Matthew J. A. Craig, Michael R. Kotowski, Catherine A. Luther","doi":"10.1177/20563051261480944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261480944","url":null,"abstract":"At the heels of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, public attention turned to the role social media influencers played in Donald J. Trump’s decisive win. In the United States, unlike influencers promoting commercial brands, political influencers – that is, social media influencers who associate themselves with political causes – are not required to disclose whether they got paid in exchange for promoting a political organization, party, or campaign. Through a survey of U.S. social media users ( n = 906), this study explores people’s attitudes toward paid political influencer disclosure. We find that political partisanship impacts support for disclosure: being more conservative is connected to lessened support for disclosure, yet disclosure is of strong bipartisan concern regardless. Our study documents that social media users who care for authenticity – a core currency in influencer ecosystems running on parasocial relationships – also exhibit higher support for disclosure. Yet, at the same time, caveating this empirical relationship between authenticity and disclosure, we also found that those who consumed more political influencer content exhibited lower support for disclosure, pinpointing the normalization of a digital ecology replete with sponsored content. Our study has implications for the broader political communication ecology: As transparency for paid political influencer activities emerges as a topic of public concern, platforms and regulators should advance efforts that provide disclosure about paid political influencer activities to social media users.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148842864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sharing the Alternative – The Role of Digital Platforms for Alternative News-Sharing Behavior 分享另类——数字平台在另类新闻分享行为中的作用

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261457806

Felix Gaisbauer, Jakob Ohme

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From Fringe to Power in the TikTok Age: Libertarian Ideology and Transgressive Performances in Milei’s ‘Populism Without the People’ TikTok时代从边缘到权力：米雷“没有人民的民粹主义”中的自由主义意识形态与越界表现

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-14 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261463361

Ana Ines Langer, Lluis de Nadal, Eugenia Mitchelstein

{"title":"From Fringe to Power in the TikTok Age: Libertarian Ideology and Transgressive Performances in Milei’s ‘Populism Without the People’","authors":"Ana Ines Langer, Lluis de Nadal, Eugenia Mitchelstein","doi":"10.1177/20563051261463361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261463361","url":null,"abstract":"Democracies around the world are under strain from radical right populist leaders and parties, raising urgent questions about their appeal. One way to approach this is by examining what and how they communicate on social media. TikTok warrants close attention, not only as the fastest-growing platform for news and information, but also because of the wider ‘Tiktokification’ of social media and the growing importance of visual communication. Yet populist communication on TikTok has received little attention, reflecting a broader text-centric bias in the literature. Here, we trace Javier Milei’s journey from the political margins to the Argentine presidency through his communication on TikTok, a platform considered key to his electoral success. We combine content analysis of text, visual and performative dimensions and show that Milei rarely appeals to ‘the people’—striking given ‘people-centrism’ is typically considered populism’s defining feature. This is, however, consistent with his right-wing libertarian ideology, which elevates individual freedom over collective solidarity, and is fitting with TikTok’s individualised mode of consumption. Milei’s populism without ‘the people,’ as we call it, combines contempt for the State, anti-elitism and transgressive performances that, as our regression analysis reveals, generate higher engagement. These findings advance our understanding of populism beyond the Global North and for a leader celebrated by the populist radical right worldwide, with broader implications for the relationship between populism, digital media and liberal democracy.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148728712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Negotiating the Influencer Imaginary: How Everyday Professionals Construct Legitimacy on Social Media 谈判影响者的想象：日常专业人士如何在社交媒体上构建合法性

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261467817

Luciana Valerio-Alfaro, Ignacio Siles

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Make Campaigns Dance Again: The Trumpdance and the Memeaesthetic Logic of TikTok 让竞选活动再次跳舞：TikTok的特朗普之舞和模因美学逻辑

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261472313

Cristopher Cepernich, Alice Fubini, Antonio Martella

{"title":"Make Campaigns Dance Again: The Trumpdance and the Memeaesthetic Logic of TikTok","authors":"Cristopher Cepernich, Alice Fubini, Antonio Martella","doi":"10.1177/20563051261472313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261472313","url":null,"abstract":"TikTok’s mimesis-oriented affordances invite users to ‘perform’ politics through embodied, replicable templates. This article examines the Trumpdance – Donald Trump’s recurrent YMCA dance at campaign rallies – as a case of how offline events become a platform-native trend. Using the TikTok Research API, we collected 6799 Trumpdance-related videos posted during the final month of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. We extracted a stratified sample of the top 20% most-viewed videos per day and content-analyzed 1130 posts. Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis and hierarchical clustering, we identified six participation modes and modeled views and comments with negative binomial regression. Findings show that TikTok visibility concentrates on event-based remediation: clips of Trump dancing at rallies generate the highest expected views and comments, while supporter reenactments and playful appropriations circulate more narrowly. Discursive reframing and satirical remediation attract comparatively fewer views but can elicit intensive commenting, underscoring a split between algorithmic visibility and conversational engagement. We argue that ‘imitation publics’ support meaning-making and production but do not automatically translate into algorithmic visibility. Overall, the Trumpdance exemplifies what we label memeaesthetic: a communicative logic in which political performance becomes a shared aesthetic template for production and participation on TikTok.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148709597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Scaling Down: Notes From the Laundry Room 缩小规模：洗衣房的笔记

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261470944

Jeffrey Fossett

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“Hearing My People, but Not Seeing My People”: Boundaries of Blackness on TikTok “听到我的人，但看不到我的人”：TikTok上的黑人边界

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261470969

Kylie Gaines-Herrera

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