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Social Media + Society is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future. View full journal description

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When We Think “News Will Find Me”: Relative Credibility of Social-Media Friends, Algorithms, and Editors

  • Mengqi Liao
  • Yuan Sun
  • Timilehin Durotoye
  • Homero Gil de Zúñiga
  • S. Shyam Sundar
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We Have Always Been Machines

  • Zizi Papacharissi
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The Failure of Play

  • Miguel Sicart
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Forging Relatability Through Identity Bricolage: Solo Lady Influencers on RedNote

  • Siyu Chen
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Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media

  • Aparajita Bhandari
  • Sara Bimo
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Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News

  • Cristian Vaccari
  • Andrew Chadwick
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Mainstreaming the Manosphere’s Misogyny Through Affective Homosocial Currencies: Exploring How Teen Boys Navigate the Andrew Tate Effect

  • Craig Haslop
  • Jessica Ringrose
  • Idil Cambazoglu
  • Betsy Milne
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Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework

  • Andreas Jungherr
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Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction

  • Martin J. Riedl
  • Josephine Lukito
  • Samuel C. Woolley
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Mainstreaming the Manosphere’s Misogyny Through Affective Homosocial Currencies: Exploring How Teen Boys Navigate the Andrew Tate Effect

  • Craig Haslop
  • Jessica Ringrose
  • Idil Cambazoglu
  • Betsy Milne
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You Can (Not) Say What You Want: Using Algospeak to Contest and Evade Algorithmic Content Moderation on TikTok

  • Ella Steen
  • Kathryn Yurechko
  • Daniel Klug
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