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The TikTok Caliphate: How Jihadist Supporters Exploit Algorithmic Recommendations and Evade Content Moderation 抖音哈里发：圣战分子支持者如何利用算法推荐并逃避内容审核

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1177/20563051251412167

Gilad Karo, Tom Divon, Blake Hallinan

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Informational Over Aspirational: Delineating “Influencers With Expertise” and “Experts With Influence” in the Wellness Industry 信息高于抱负：描述健康行业中的“有专业知识的影响者”和“有影响力的专家”

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261427977

Mariah L. Wellman

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‘Rape Isn’t Real, and If It Is, Foids Deserve It’: The Complex and Contradictory Articulations of Rape and Gender-Based Hate Among Incels “强奸不是真实的，如果是的话，那是该死的”：强奸和基于性别的仇恨在Incels中复杂而矛盾的表达

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-22 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261419384

Mathilda Åkerlund

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The Presumed Prevalence/Persuasiveness of Online Misinformation and Americans’ Dissatisfaction With Democracy 网络错误信息的假定流行/说服力与美国人对民主的不满

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-19 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261420610

Chloe Mortenson, Erik C. Nisbet, R. Kelly Garrett

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“You Are Not Fat”: The Postfeminist Contradiction in #RejectBodyAnxiety—A Computationally Assisted Critical Thematic Analysis “你不胖”：#拒绝身体焦虑中的后女权主义矛盾——一个计算辅助的批判性主题分析

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261419392

Lei Chen, Kun Zhou, Sang Jung Kim

{"title":"“You Are Not Fat”: The Postfeminist Contradiction in #RejectBodyAnxiety—A Computationally Assisted Critical Thematic Analysis","authors":"Lei Chen, Kun Zhou, Sang Jung Kim","doi":"10.1177/20563051261419392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261419392","url":null,"abstract":"Digital platforms have facilitated body-positive discourses that challenge appearance norms, yet these often intertwine with postfeminist elements, creating paradoxes that both resist and reinforce hegemonic ideals. By deploying computationally assisted critical thematic analysis across 1915 #RejectBodyAnxiety posts on RedNote, this study reveals both the breadth —the full variety of user-generated discursive elements and their articulation patterns—and the depth —the discursive meanings configured through these articulations, of this feminist digital activism site. The findings show that body-positivity discourses under #RejectBodyAnxiety are profoundly reconfigured through their articulation with localized postfeminist formations and platform-mediated empowering mechanisms, reframing body positivity as ideal positivity —a postfeminist discourse that refines hegemonic beauty ideals by shedding their extreme traits ( Selective Subversion ) and making them appear attainable ( Tactical Conformity ), thereby transforming them into seemingly positive forms. While fostering empowerment, this discourse risks new exclusions, marginalizing some women and intensifying postfeminist contradictions. Tracing these sensibilities through social media, the study highlights their new forms in non-Western contexts and underscores the need to address emerging discourses in body image promotion.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146169684","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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County Partisanship Affects Social Media Posting Behavior During a Pandemic 县党派关系影响大流行期间的社交媒体发布行为

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261419387

M. Luke Smith, Guangqing Chi, Junjun Yin, Yosef Bodovski, S. Shyam Sundar

{"title":"County Partisanship Affects Social Media Posting Behavior During a Pandemic","authors":"M. Luke Smith, Guangqing Chi, Junjun Yin, Yosef Bodovski, S. Shyam Sundar","doi":"10.1177/20563051261419387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261419387","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has been characterized by political partisan differences and opinions that influenced individual behavior and political policies, correlating with varying outcomes. Measuring these differences in opinion using traditional methods, such as opinion polls, can be costly and provides only a snapshot of sentiment at a given time. Social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) may offer a real-time tool for assessing opinions to explore the relationship between differing viewpoints about the pandemic and how these differences impact the occurrence and severity of disease burden. Utilizing an open-source data set of 1.75 million keyword-selected X (Twitter) posts, updated weekly from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021, along with publicly available COVID-19 case and death counts and county-level data on election outcomes from the 2020 election, we analyzed how the volume of tweets on the X (Twitter) platform related to COVID-19 has changed over time and how patterns of use vary across the partisan divide. We discovered that Democratic-leaning counties exhibited higher X (Twitter) volume associated with COVID-19 topics compared to Republican-leaning counties in response to changes in case or death rates. In addition, we found a higher proportion of tweets in urban counties compared to rural ones.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"299 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146169685","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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Institutionalized Sharenting: Industry Dynamics Shaping Children’s Visibility in Influencer Content 制度化的分享：行业动态塑造儿童在网红内容中的可见度

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261419394

Beuckels Emma

{"title":"Institutionalized Sharenting: Industry Dynamics Shaping Children’s Visibility in Influencer Content","authors":"Beuckels Emma","doi":"10.1177/20563051261419394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261419394","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically investigates the institutional dynamics that shape influencer sharenting, employing a constructivist framework and the concept of institutional work. Based on in-depth interviews with key industry stakeholders, the study demonstrates how children’s visibility within influencer marketing is strategically cultivated through the interdependent operation of economic, professional, and normative structures. The article introduces the concept of institutionalized sharenting to describe the processes through which sharenting becomes routinized and legitimized, enabling industry actors to capitalize on children’s presence while displacing full responsibility onto parents. This deflection is enacted through a variety of practices, such as the inclusion of children via strategic collaborations with their parents, and is framed through discourses of authenticity, intensive parenting, and personal choice. Ultimately, the paper argues that the marginalization of children, despite their centrality to the industry’s profitability, is sustained by adultist and neoliberal logics that frame children’s labour as play and familial monetization as empowerment.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146169686","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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The Conjuncture of Intentionality, Facticity, and Identity: Exposure to Disinformation and Malinformation on Social Media and Their Association With Ethnic Polarization 意向性、真实性和身份的结合点：社交媒体上的虚假信息和错误信息暴露及其与种族两极分化的关系

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261417516

Qurban Hussain Pamirzad, Qiang Chen

{"title":"The Conjuncture of Intentionality, Facticity, and Identity: Exposure to Disinformation and Malinformation on Social Media and Their Association With Ethnic Polarization","authors":"Qurban Hussain Pamirzad, Qiang Chen","doi":"10.1177/20563051261417516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261417516","url":null,"abstract":"The dissemination of weaponized information—defined as the intentional use of falsehoods (i.e. disinformation) and the harmful misuse of accurate information (i.e. malinformation) against a target—on social media represents a notable downside of these platforms, often linked to polarization. However, research on the relationship between weaponized information and polarization remains limited due to conceptual ambiguities and geographical context. This study uses cross-sectional survey data ( N = 520) collected across eight provinces in Afghanistan to explore the direct and indirect association between exposure to disinformation and malinformation online and ethnic polarization. Findings through mediation analyses reveal that exposure to disinformation was not associated with ethnic polarization, either directly or indirectly. Conversely, exposure to malinformation was directly associated with ethnic polarization and indirectly linked to it through increased ingroup positive perception. These findings highlight the nuanced difference in how intentional falsehoods and the harmful misuse of accurate information shape polarization dynamics in ethnically diverse and polarized societies.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"384 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146129372","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 Listens to Me So I Feel Well and Connected: Investigating the Influence of TikTok users’ Perceived Algorithm Responsiveness and (In)sensitivity on Well-Being Via Self-Determination 它听我说，所以我感觉很好，很有联系：通过自决调查TikTok用户感知算法响应性和（In）敏感性对幸福感的影响

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261417301

Matthew J. A. Craig, Mina Choi, Ying Zhu, Toqa Hassan, Samuel Mensah Noi, David E. Silva

{"title":"It Listens to Me So I Feel Well and Connected: Investigating the Influence of TikTok users’ Perceived Algorithm Responsiveness and (In)sensitivity on Well-Being Via Self-Determination","authors":"Matthew J. A. Craig, Mina Choi, Ying Zhu, Toqa Hassan, Samuel Mensah Noi, David E. Silva","doi":"10.1177/20563051261417301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261417301","url":null,"abstract":"Social media has grown to be a large part of our virtual connectedness online. However, with this growth in digital connection, we have also become connected with digital entities that run them (social media). Borrowing from the concept of interpersonal responsiveness, researchers have found that users perceive their algorithm to be responsive to their needs and sensitive to their identity have a greater sense of well-being online and media enjoyment. However, the mechanisms for which these connect with one another (responsiveness predicting subjective well-being) remain to be disentangled. Guided by self-determination theory, this study examines whether autonomy, competence, and relatedness satisfaction through TikTok use mediate the associations between perceived algorithm responsiveness and insensitivity and satisfaction with life. With an online survey ( N = 385), our study found that greater responsiveness is associated with greater life satisfaction mediated through greater relatedness satisfaction. However, greater competence satisfaction was associated with lower life satisfaction. Future research and current limitations in light of our findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089862","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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From Flowers to Fascism? The Cottagecore to Tradwife Pipeline on Tumblr 从鲜花到法西斯主义？Tumblr上的从农舍到商人的管道

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-01-25 DOI: 10.1177/20563051251413920

Oliver Mel Allen, Yi Zu, Milo Z. Trujillo, Brooke Foucault Welles

{"title":"From Flowers to Fascism? The Cottagecore to Tradwife Pipeline on Tumblr","authors":"Oliver Mel Allen, Yi Zu, Milo Z. Trujillo, Brooke Foucault Welles","doi":"10.1177/20563051251413920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251413920","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we collected and analyzed social media posts to investigate an aesthetic-based pipeline where users searching for Cottagecore content may find Tradwife content co-opted by white supremacists. Through quantitative analysis of over 200,000 Tumblr posts and qualitative coding of about 2350 Tumblr posts, we did not find evidence of an explicit radicalization. We found that problematic Tradwife posts found in the literature may be confined to Tradwife-only spaces, while content in the Cottagecore tag generally did not warrant extra moderation. However, we did find evidence of a mainstreaming effect in the overlap between the Tradwife and Cottagecore communities. In our qualitative analysis, there was more interaction between queer and Tradwife identities than expected based on the literature, and some Tradwives even explicitly included queer people and disavowed racism in the Tradwife community on Tumblr. This could be genuine, but we propose that this is an example of mainstreaming, where white supremacists re-brand their content and follow platform norms to spread ideologies that would otherwise be rejected. In addition, through temporal analysis, we observed a change in the central tags used by Tradwives in the Cottagecore tag pre- and post-2021. Initially, these posts focused on aesthetics and hobbies like baking and gardening, but post-2021, the central tags focused more on religion, traditional gender roles, and homemaking—all of which align with white supremacist rhetoric about womanhood.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048650","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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