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Perceiving Affective Polarization in the United States: How Social Media Shape Meta-Perceptions and Affective Polarization 感知美国的情感极化：社交媒体如何塑造元感知和情感极化

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241232662

Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard

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A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry 从实践论角度看 Dribbble 和不断发展的设计行业

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241228601

Yiran Duan, Charis Owuraku Asante-Agyei, Rebecca Kelly, Jeff Hemsley

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Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022) 边缘的数字侨民活动：在 Facebook 上展开罗兴亚散居者的互动（2017-2022 年）

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241228603

Anas Ansar, Julian Maitra

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Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images 衡量呈现语境和图片作者身份对新闻图片可信度认知的影响

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241229656

Brian McDermott, Tara Marie Mortensen, Robert A. Wertz

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Mechanisms Driving Online Vaccine Debate During the COVID-19 Pandemic 在 COVID-19 大流行期间推动网上疫苗辩论的机制

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241229657

Ozgur Can Seckin, Aybuke Atalay, Ege Otenen, Umut Duygu, Onur Varol

{"title":"Mechanisms Driving Online Vaccine Debate During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Ozgur Can Seckin, Aybuke Atalay, Ege Otenen, Umut Duygu, Onur Varol","doi":"10.1177/20563051241229657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241229657","url":null,"abstract":"The prevalence of the anti-vaccine movement in today’s society has become a pressing concern, largely amplified by the dissemination of vaccine skepticism. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccination debate sparked controversial debates on social media platforms such as Twitter, which can lead to serious consequences for public health. What determines anti-vax attitudes is an important question for understanding the source of the campaigns and mitigating the misinformation spread. Compared with other countries, Türkiye differentiates itself with high vaccination rates and lack of political support for anti-vaxxers despite its highly polarized political system. Analyzing Turkish Twittersphere, we explore several mechanisms capturing content production and behaviors of accounts within the pro- and anti-vax segments in online vaccine-related discussions. Our findings indicate there is no relation between political stance and anti-vaccine attitude. Both supporters of vaccination (pro-vaxxers) and opponents (anti-vaxxers) can be found across the political spectrum. Moreover, linguistic differences reveal that anti-vaxxers employ more emotional language, while pro-vaxxers express more skepticism. Notably, automated accounts are less prevalent leading to difficulty in assessing genuine support for vaccines, while anti-vaccine bots produce slightly more content. These findings have crucial implications for vaccine policy, emphasizing the importance of understanding diverse language patterns and beliefs among anti-vaxxers and pro-vaxxers to develop effective communication strategies at the national level.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938920","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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Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement 社交媒体与感知的政治极化：所认为的平台承受能力、参与不文明政治讨论和所认为的他人参与的作用

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241228595

Macau K. F. Mak, Mengyu Li, Hernando Rojas

{"title":"Social Media and Perceived Political Polarization: Role of Perceived Platform Affordances, Participation in Uncivil Political Discussion, and Perceived Others’ Engagement","authors":"Macau K. F. Mak, Mengyu Li, Hernando Rojas","doi":"10.1177/20563051241228595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228595","url":null,"abstract":"This research applies a perceived affordance approach to examine the distinctive role of social media technologies in shaping (mis)perceptions of political polarization. We argue that users’ perceptions of platform affordances influence both (a) their self-participation in uncivil political discussion on social media and (b) perceptions of others’ engagement, which eventually shape their perceptions of polarization. Our analysis of US survey data found that perceptions of lower privacy and stronger network association on Facebook are related to perceptions of a higher level of uncivil discussion by other users, which in turn predicts greater perceived polarization. Perceptions of higher anonymity relate to higher self-participation in uncivil discussion, which is surprisingly associated with perceptions of reduced polarization. Our follow-up experimental study illustrated that participants with more frequent engagement in uncivil discussion, irrespective of interacting with civil or uncivil comments, showed consistently higher levels of intrapersonal reflection, which reduces perceived polarization.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938938","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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When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking 当故事变成制度：TikTok 用户如何使算法感知合法化

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231224114

Dragoș M. Obreja

{"title":"When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking","authors":"Dragoș M. Obreja","doi":"10.1177/20563051231224114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231224114","url":null,"abstract":"Educational, political, or moral/religious content is increasingly present on TikTok, so contemporary social dynamics legitimize the process of digital mediation regarding these institutional values. Based on 286 open-ended survey answers and subsequent interviews with 45 Romanian TikTok users, this article applies social constructivism to explore the intersubjective side of algorithmic experiences. The significance of such a framework lies in its ability to elucidate the manner in which users actively construct their social environments, which may initially appear as isolated individual experiences but ultimately unveil shared algorithmic interpretations. Thus, the participants highlight three recurrent institutional themes in relation to TikTok’s algorithm: (1) algorithm as political profiling, (2) algorithm as moral plethora, and (3) algorithm as educational benchmark. Findings show that users’ stories related to algorithms are widely conceived within institutional frameworks. These narratives play a role in shaping what Berger and Luckmann call “intersubjective sedimentation” within the intricate interconnection between institutional and algorithmic realities. The ways in which TikTok users legitimize the presence of these institutional actors on their For You page should be seen as a form of agency negotiation between users and machines. The legitimating role of stories about algorithms also highlights the institutional necessity of intergenerational socialization, which is why the contents made by such institutional actors are more and more actively mediated through TikTok.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139939050","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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“Memes Save Lives”: Stigma and the Production of Antivaccination Memes During the COVID-19 Pandemic "备忘录拯救生命"：COVID-19 大流行期间的污名化与反疫苗接种备忘录的制作

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231224729

Stephanie Alice Baker, Michael James Walsh

{"title":"“Memes Save Lives”: Stigma and the Production of Antivaccination Memes During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Stephanie Alice Baker, Michael James Walsh","doi":"10.1177/20563051231224729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231224729","url":null,"abstract":"Disinformation research is increasingly concerned with the hierarchies and conditions that enable the strategic production of false and misleading content online. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was revealed that 12 influencers were responsible for a significant volume of antivaccine disinformation. This article examines how influencers use antivaccination memes for commercial and political gain. Drawing on a 12-month digital ethnography of three disinformation producers on Instagram and Telegram, we conceptualize their strategy of meme warfare in terms of the logics of spoiled identity, demonstrating how stigma is used to galvanize and recast the antivaccination movement around themes of persecution and moral superiority. Dispensing with the idea that content moderation has forced disinformation “underground,” we find that disinformation producers configure memes to adapt to specific platforms by directing mainstream audiences to less regulated platforms, personal newsletters, and sites. By examining the tactics and techniques disinformation producers use to spread antivaccination messaging online, we question the effectiveness of content moderation policies as a solution to regulate influencers whose visibility and status strategically straddle multiple sites in the broader information ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"7 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139939006","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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Deciphering Influence on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Influential Account Detection Metrics in the Context of Tobacco Promotion 解读社交媒体上的影响力：烟草促销背景下影响力账户检测指标的比较分析

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231224268

Alex Kresovich, Andrew H. Norris, Chandler C. Carter, Yoonsang Kim, Ganna Kostygina, Sherry L. Emery

{"title":"Deciphering Influence on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Influential Account Detection Metrics in the Context of Tobacco Promotion","authors":"Alex Kresovich, Andrew H. Norris, Chandler C. Carter, Yoonsang Kim, Ganna Kostygina, Sherry L. Emery","doi":"10.1177/20563051231224268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231224268","url":null,"abstract":"Influencer marketing spending in the United States was expected to surpass $6 billion in 2023. This marketing tactic poses a public health threat, as research suggests it has been utilized to undercut decades of public health progress—such as gains made against tobacco use among adolescents. Public health and public opinion researchers need practical tools to capture influential accounts on social media. Utilizing X (formerly Twitter) little cigar and cigarillo (LCC) data, we compared seven influential account detection metrics to help clarify our understanding of the functions of existing metrics and the nature of social media discussion of tobacco products. Results indicate that existing influential account detection metrics are non-harmonic and time-sensitive, capturing distinctly different users and categorically different user types. Our results also reveal that these metrics capture distinctly different conversations among influential social media accounts. Our findings suggest that public health and public opinion researchers hoping to conduct analyses of influential social media accounts need to understand each metric’s benefits and limitations and utilize more than one influential account detection metric to increase the likelihood of producing valid and reliable research.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"141 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139943149","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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“It Was Very Hard for Me to Keep Doing That Job”: Understanding Troll Farm’s Working in the Arab World "我很难继续做这份工作"：了解巨魔农场在阿拉伯世界的工作情况

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051231224713

Marina Ayeb, Tiziano Bonini

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