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Managing the Pandemic in Digitized Spaces: Assessing the Social Media Approaches of Scandinavian Public Health Authorities 在数字化空间管理大流行病：评估斯堪的纳维亚公共卫生机构的社交媒体方法

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241269283

Anna Elisabeth Hasselström, Anders Olof Larsson

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More Than Meets the Reply: Examining Emotional Belonging in Far-Right Social Media Space 不只是回复：考察极右翼社交媒体空间中的情感归属

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274665

Jonathan Collins

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“I Can Choose to be a Good Man Even if I Got a Raw Deal”: Neoliberal Heteromasculinity as Manosphere Counter Narrative in r/Stoicism "我可以选择做一个好男人，即使我得到了一个不公平的待遇"：r/Stoicism 中作为人际圈反叙事的新自由主义异性气质

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274677

Marcus Maloney, Callum Jones, Steven Roberts

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Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War 游戏创伤：TikTok 创作者与战争时期平台化身体的使用

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241269281

Tom Divon, Moa Eriksson Krutrök

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Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture 珍视自杀后的变性人生命：数字社交媒体文化中的纪念仪式

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274680

Joe Edward Hatfield

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Digital Access, Digital Literacy, and Afterlife Preparedness: Societal Contexts of Digital Afterlife Traces 数字访问、数字扫盲和来世准备：数字来世痕迹的社会背景

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274676

Lance Yong Jin Park, Yu Won Oh, Yoonmo Sang

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“#My Place Isn’t in the Kitchen”: Examining Feminist Facebook Framing of an Algerian Social Movement "#My Place Isn't in the Kitchen"：考察阿尔及利亚社会运动的女权主义 Facebook 框架

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274657

Rim H. Chaif, Teri Finneman

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“I Had My Hair Cut Today to Share #Women_Short Cut_Campaign”: Feminist Selfies Protesting Misogyny "我今天剪了头发，以分享#女性短发运动#"：女权主义者自拍抗议厌女症

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274667

Sunah Lee

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Educating Cancer on TikTok: Expanding Online Self-Disclosure of Cancer Patients 在 TikTok 上进行癌症教育：扩大癌症患者的在线自我披露

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274673

Magdalena Pluta, Piotr Siuda

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Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms 内部断裂：社交媒体平台的竞争逻辑

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241274668

Angèle Christin, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Chenyan Jia, Marijn N. Mado, Jeanne L. Tsai, Chunchen Xu

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