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Conspiracies and Algorithms: How Reddit’s Conspiracy Community Perceives Algorithm-Driven Social Automation 阴谋和算法：Reddit的阴谋社区如何看待算法驱动的社会自动化

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261458615

Muyang Li

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Scrolling for the Truth: Source Factors, Persuasion, and a Test of Misinformation Interventions on TikTok 滚动寻找真相：来源因素、说服和对TikTok上错误信息干预的测试

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261487526

Brittany N. Shivers Weinstein, Bartosz W. Wojdynski

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Like Walking a Tightrope: User-Centric Perspectives on Content in Need of Moderation 就像走钢索：以用户为中心的内容视角需要适度

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261479963

Anna Maria Planitzer, Svenja Schäfer, Pia Pachinger, Sophie Lecheler

{"title":"Like Walking a Tightrope: User-Centric Perspectives on Content in Need of Moderation","authors":"Anna Maria Planitzer, Svenja Schäfer, Pia Pachinger, Sophie Lecheler","doi":"10.1177/20563051261479963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261479963","url":null,"abstract":"Norm-violating content on social media platforms is on the rise, fueling prejudice and polarization. To counter such developments in a timely manner, platforms rely on automated content moderation. The issue, however, is that current understandings of automated moderation are mostly elite-driven, neglecting individual user perspectives, introducing biases and discrimination, and overlooking that users’ perspectives on what constitutes a norm violation in the first place may differ substantially from those of experts and platforms. Therefore, this study uses focus groups to explore what type of content users themselves think is in need of moderation. Findings suggest that users, while acknowledging the importance of moderating polarized topics (e.g., migration) and uncivil discourse styles (e.g., insults), are more concerned with the motivations of perpetrators and the vulnerability of targets. Our findings show that, if platforms want to incorporate user perspectives when designing automated moderation systems, they must move beyond merely detecting problematic message characteristics and focus on more tailored approaches, alongside accountability measures for perpetrators and safety measures for victims.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123626","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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Affective Authority: Understanding Health and Wellness Influence on Social Media 情感权威：理解健康和健康对社交媒体的影响

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261487534

Deanna Holroyd, Mariah L. Wellman

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Wise Empathy Improves Well-Being on Instagram 明智的同理心可以提高Instagram用户的幸福感

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261487089

Gregory John Depow, Christopher Oveis, Emily Zohar, Michael Inzlicht

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Performing Identity: Repetition, Emoji, and Candidate Indicators of Amplified Visibility in Jordanian–Palestinian Facebook Discourse 表演身份：重复、表情符号和约旦-巴勒斯坦Facebook话语中放大可见性的候选指标

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-06-15 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261454774

Alaeddin A. Banikalef, Mohammad Issa Mehawesh

{"title":"Performing Identity: Repetition, Emoji, and Candidate Indicators of Amplified Visibility in Jordanian–Palestinian Facebook Discourse","authors":"Alaeddin A. Banikalef, Mohammad Issa Mehawesh","doi":"10.1177/20563051261454774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261454774","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how Arabic Facebook comments shape political tensions between Jordanians and Palestinians. The corpus contains 800 public comments collected from public Facebook pages focused on Jordanian–Palestinian affairs between January and July 2025. Methods combine immersive digital ethnography with systematic netnographic coding and a reproducible coordination–detection protocol applied at three scales: micro (linguistic strategies), meso (semiotic affordances), and macro (temporal and network patterns). The results show that dialectal markers, religious formulae, emojis, short slogans, and threaded replies interact to produce strong identity signaling and affective circulation. A subset of items displays heuristic markers associated with amplified visibility, such as exact-text repetition, clustered timestamps, repeated links, and low-engagement account profiles. These markers are presented as candidate indicators of amplification, not as proof of centralized orchestration. This study provides open detection scripts and appendix materials for human adjudication and follow-up network analyses. Findings point to low-cost interventions, such as prompts before verbatim reposting and triage workflows for flagged clusters, and to the need for cross-platform tracing and bot analyses to confirm provenance.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286449","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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Preventing Radicalisation, or Forcing Ideological Consent? Crises, Uncertainty Reduction and Collective Identity Negotiation in Collaborative Communities of Online Third Spaces 防止激进化，还是强迫意识形态认同？网络第三空间协作社区的危机、不确定性减少与集体身份协商

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-06-06 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261449018

Lenka Vochocová, Jana Rosenfeldová

{"title":"Preventing Radicalisation, or Forcing Ideological Consent? Crises, Uncertainty Reduction and Collective Identity Negotiation in Collaborative Communities of Online Third Spaces","authors":"Lenka Vochocová, Jana Rosenfeldová","doi":"10.1177/20563051261449018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261449018","url":null,"abstract":"With regard to the recent accumulation of crisis events in Europe, scholars stress the potential of online spaces to reduce people’s uncertainty through collective identity formation, providing their members with emotional support and recognition. However, polarisation and radicalisation are mentioned as possible negative consequences of online community formation in crisis times. “Third spaces” are described as online forums where political talk emerges against the background of the primary purpose of the environment – exchanging ideas or goods and mutual support. Our article explores how the “purpose-based” collective identity of the participants of a parenting forum, a typical “third space,” is challenged with their potentially conflicting political identities in the context of strongly polarising issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. A qualitative analysis of nearly 2,500 contributions confirms that, to a certain extent, a third space constitutes an environment of cooperation and support even during major societal crises and provides space to negotiate conflicting ideological identities. However, broader societal polarisation is reflected in the forum which clearly sets boundaries to diversity, strictly excluding opinions considered extreme or unacceptable by the majority. Proponents of minority opinions are thus pushed to the margins, where they may radicalise.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"601 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286492","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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Normative White Internet Practices: Performances at the Edge of a Digital Black Community 规范的白人互联网实践：在数字黑人社区边缘的表演

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-06-03 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261452021

William R. Frey

{"title":"Normative White Internet Practices: Performances at the Edge of a Digital Black Community","authors":"William R. Frey","doi":"10.1177/20563051261452021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261452021","url":null,"abstract":"Following the murder of George Floyd, more than 2,000 White-identifying Reddit users applied to the subreddit, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, in hopes of becoming verified allies. Prior research has argued that White people may seek out digital contexts to learn about and practice race. However, few studies examine why, and none problematize the relationship between normative internet practices and Whiteness—normative White internet practices. In collaboration with r/BlackPeopleTwitter moderators and rooted in a theoretical orientation of race as doings, this ethnographic and qualitative case study aimed to document examples of normative White internet practices through a focus on the performances of White users seeking allyship at the edge of a digital Black community. The study analysis focuses on 3,219 White ally applications sent in the year surrounding George Floyd’s murder—when and where normative Whiteness was actively and openly contested. The findings begin to articulate a repertoire of normative White internet practices as White-identifying users engaged in information seeking, self-differentiation, impression management, and spatial negotiation to center individualistic projects rooted in Whiteness even when obscured as care for others. These unsolicited and normative practices took on distinct capacities for harm when sent to r/BlackPeopleTwitter moderators. Online racism may persist due to more subtle and normalized forms of racialized harm that do not trigger platformed or moderator interventions. As scholars continue to study racism on social media, there remains a need to partner with online communities to name and organize against digital harms enacted through normative White internet practices.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286496","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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Structured Absence 结构化的缺席

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-06-03 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261452539

Alondra Nelson

{"title":"Structured Absence","authors":"Alondra Nelson","doi":"10.1177/20563051261452539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261452539","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that while generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be described as a platform, that description is analytically insufficient for understanding where power operates and how it displaces democratic accountability. The platform concept directs attention to the interface—application programming interfaces (APIs), app stores, and developer ecosystems—while the decisive conditions of generative AI lie upstream in compute supply chains, mineral extraction, semiconductor chokepoints, energy and water infrastructures, immigration flows, and corporate-state arrangements that concentrate control. To name this formation, I introduce the concept of structured absence: the organized diminution of democratic institutional capacity in which governance persists while public authorization disappears. Generative AI is not ungoverned; it is extensively governed through export controls, industrial policy, labor regimes, and private infrastructures that remain largely inaccessible to democratic publics. I argue that “predatory inclusion” and authorization are central analytic terms for understanding this shift: communities are incorporated into AI systems on unequal and opaque terms, while the standing to deliberate over those systems is withheld. The essay concludes by calling for democratic infrastructures capable of authorizing technological change.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286497","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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We Are Equally Vulnerable? An Examination of the Third-Person Effect in AI-Generated Misinformation 我们同样脆弱？人工智能产生的错误信息中的第三人效应研究

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-06-02 DOI: 10.1177/20563051261452019

Baoying Fu, Xueqing Li

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