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Torrential Twitter? Measuring the Severity of Harassment When Canadian Female Politicians Tweet About Climate Change 暴雨Twitter吗?衡量加拿大女政客在推特上谈论气候变化时受到骚扰的严重程度

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241304493

Inessa De Angelis

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Where is the Global South? Northern Visibilities in Digital Activism Research 全球南方在哪里？数字行动主义研究中的北方可见度

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241299835

Suay M. Özkula, Paul J. Reilly

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DIY-Online Reconciliation? The Role of Memes in Navigating Inter-Group Boundaries in the Context of Sri Lanka’s 2022 Political Crisis DIY-Online和解?在斯里兰卡2022年政治危机的背景下，模因在族群间边界导航中的作用

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241303362

Andreas T. Hirblinger, Sara Kallis, Hasini A. Haputhanthri

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The Impact of Social Norms on Adolescents’ Self-Presentation Practices on Social Media 社会规范对青少年社交媒体自我呈现行为的影响

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241299829

Arne Freya Zillich, Annika Wunderlich

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Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit: Investigating Context-Specific Differences Across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom With a Longitudinal Survey Experiment 对公共利益数据使用的态度：通过纵向调查实验调查德国、西班牙和英国的具体情况差异

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241301202

Frederic Gerdon

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Online and Abused: Girls of Color Facing Racialized Sexual Harassment 在线和虐待：有色人种女孩面临种族化的性骚扰

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241302153

Pallavi Guha, Paromita Pain

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Never Mess With the “Memers”: How Meme Creators Are Redefining Contemporary Politics 永远不要惹“模因”：模因创造者如何重新定义当代政治

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241296256

Mihaela-Georgiana Mihăilescu

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Who Can Say What? Testing the Impact of Interpersonal Mechanisms and Gender on Fairness Evaluations of Content Moderation 谁能说什么？测试人际关系机制和性别对内容调节公平性评价的影响

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241286702

Ina Weber, João Gonçalves, Gina M. Masullo, Marisa Torres da Silva, Joep Hofhuis

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Turn It on! Turn It on? Privacy Management of Pupils and Teachers in Online Learning During COVID-19 Lockdowns in Germany and Israel 打开它打开？德国和以色列 COVID-19 封锁期间在线学习中学生和教师的隐私管理

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241301841

Leyla Dogruel, Dmitri Epstein, Sven Joeckel, Nicholas John

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Becoming Spectral: Toward a Media History of Ghosting 成为幽灵走向幽灵化的媒体史

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241301200

Torbjörn Rolandsson, Sadie Couture

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