Full list of Papers 2026

Full list of papers for #SMSociety 2026

Author(s)Paper title
Aanila Kishwar (Indiana University Bloomington)*Coded Biases And Demographic Stereotyping in Facebook’s Curation of AI-Generated Images
Aditya Deshbandhu (University of Exeter); Devina Sarwatay (City St George’s, University of London)*; Aparna Vincent (Indian Institute of Management – Indore)The Platform Turn in Online Games
Adrienne Hall-Phillips (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)*; Khushali Shah (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)Navigating Mental Health Online: How Platform Affordances Shape Emotional Connection on TikTok and Threads
Ali Fuad Selvi (University of Alabama); Erhan Aslan (University of Reading)*Who owns #RealEnglish? Influencer Teachers’ Construction of Authenticity on Instagram
Amanuel Tesfaye Kebede (Helsinki University )*Aesthetic Authoritarianism? Visual Propaganda and the Politics of Urban Renewal in Ethiopia
Amber Priem (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)*; Malaika Brengman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Nanouk Verhulst (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)Designing for Attention vs. Designing for Wellbeing: The Impact of a Screentime Nudge on TikTok Flow
Andreas Schellewald (Goldsmiths, University of London)*; Hui Lin (King’s College London)“Meaningful” or “meaningless” social interactions? The automation of commenting in live streams on Douyin
Anna Pujadas-Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)*; Clara Virós-Martín (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)Algorithmic Femininity on Instagram: A Case Study of the VI @fit_aitana
Anuja Premika (Mahindra University)*Creators, journalists, and relational precarity in India’s beauty web
Aparajita Bhandari (University of Waterloo); Sara Bimo (York University); Chelsea Butkowski (American University)*Hyper-datafication: How Platforms Make Everything Feel Like Social Media
Arafat Al Yeasin (University of Liverpool)*Hybrid AI Visuals and Deepfakes as instruments of political deception in the pre-election period of Bangladesh
Areyana Proctor (University of Wisconsin – Madison)*Misogynoir, Influencer Tactics, and Profit Maximization on YouTube
Asher Kessler (London School of Economics)*Conducting History: Speed, Progress and Exponentiality in Meta’s Discourse
Ashwin Nagappa (Queensland University of Technology)*; Daniel Angus (Queensland University of Technology); Kateryna Kasianenko (Queensland University of Technology)Decentered Platform Governance: Learning trust and Safety Practices with Communities on Decentralised Social Media Platforms
Ayşenur Benevento (Bahcesehir University)*Children in Political Imagery: A Visual Values Analysis of Turkish Leaders’ Instagram Posts
Ben Xu (University of Leeds)*Algorithmic Visibility as a Capital Conversion Mechanism: The Practice Logic of Content Creators in the Digital Public Sphere
Bhavani Singh (Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology)*; Rashmi Jha (Banaras Hindu University)Platform culture and Traditional Performance: Algorithmic Mediation of Ghoomar Dance on Instagram
Biying Wu-Ouyang (Education University of Hong Kong)*Algorithm Adoration, Synergy, Discord, and Apathy: Categorizing Human–Algorithm Relationships in Social Media
Borchuluun Yadamsuren (LUC)*; Undrah Baasanjav (Southern Illinois University); Iderjargal Dashdondog (National University of Mongolia)Mongolian Stand-Up Comedy on YouTube as Public Discourse
Bruna Paroni (University of Urbino)*“Flooding the Tropical Zone”: Understanding Algorithmic Amplification on Instagram During Election Campaigns
Camilla Volpe (University of Milan); Luca Giuffè (University of Milan); Giulia Giorgi (University of Milan)*ZOOMWORK: Work imaginaries in platform culture. Content creators and Gen Z
Carlos Entrena Serrano (Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel))*; Thomas A. Wright (University of Sheffield)“TikTok… Are You Okay?!” Understanding the U.S. TikTok Ban and Forced Sale through Infrastructural Inversion
Carolin Lehmann (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) Tübingen)*; Sonja Utz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) Tübingen)Seeing what your friends are up to: FOMO through group chats
Catarina Feio (Universidade de Aveiro)*; Lídia Oliveira (Universidade de Aveiro)A Deficit of Shared Reality? Youth, Fragmented Information Environments, Social Media, and Political Participation
Catherine Baker (Dublin City University)*From Mate Selection to Testosterone Talk: Mapping Science Claims in the (Neo-) Manosphere
Chenfei LI (King’s College London)*Mediating ‘my London’ on social media: Knowledge migrants’ urban place experiences and perceptions through digital place memories
Chisom Omeokachie (Independent Researcher)*Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Audience Trust, Scepticism, and AI-Generated Visuals on Social Media
Claire Stravato Emes (claire. stravato @gmail.com)*Who Should Be in Charge? Safety and Agency in the Public Imagination of EU Platform Governance
Daniel Barredo Ibáñez (Universidad de Sevilla)*; Lucía Caro Castaño (Universidad de Cádiz)Predictive Approaches to Suicidal Thoughts in Spanish Youth: The Role of Online Media Engagement Patterns
Daniel Jordan (University of Glasgow)*Sowing Discord: Exploring the use of online chat platforms in mobilising worker resistance
Dayei Oh (University of Strathclyde)*; Craig Ryder (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich )Trust Café: A Marxist-feminist approach to digital commons and content moderation
Deep Sanghvi (Worcester Polytechnic Institue)*; Khushali Shah (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) From Feed to Floor: AI-Powered Social Media as a Sensory Buffer in Neurodivergent Retail Experiences
Devina Sarwatay (City St George’s, University of London)*; Anubha Sarkar (City St George’s, University of London); Swatantra A (Indian Institute of Management Indore); Kealeboga Aiseng (University of the Witwatersrand)AI, Social Media, and Higher Education: A Comparative Policy Analysis across UK, India, and South Africa
Dora Weubel (USI Università della Svizzera italiana)*; Sophie Mayen (USI Università della Svizzera italiana); Kathrin Karsay (University of Vienna); Ruth Wendt (Ludwig Maximilian University ); Anne-Linda Camerini (USI Università della Svizzera italiana)The Many Faces of Stigma: Profiles of Adolescent Mental Illness Stigma Beliefs and Social Media Use Across Switzerland, Germany, and Austria
duygu karatas (University of Siegen)*Mainstreaming the Red Pill:The Popularization of Red Pill Ideology on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
Elinor Carmi (City, University of London)*“Don’t hurt me, no more”: What can we learn from the pharmaceutical industry regulation about platform and AI regulation
Elinor Carmi (City, University of London)*; Anna Feigenbaum (Glasgow University); Photini Vrikki (UCL)The AI Citizenship Framework: Developing interactive AI literacies for critical and proactive citizens
Elisabetta Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)*Children in the Creator Economy of Family Influencers: Visibility, Engagement, and Regulatory Gaps in Italy
Elizaveta Chernenko (Oxford Internet Institute)*; Balazs Vedres (Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University)Networked Hatred: Co-evolution of Dehumanising Discourse and Channel Structure of Russian and Ukrainian Telegram During the 2022 Invasion
Ella Duncan (University of the Fraser Valley); Kathleen Rodgers (University of the Fraser Valley)*; Avery Fraser (University of the Fraser Valley)“Cuckoo Nut Lady C*nt Face McGee”: Gendered Constructions of Mothers Who Kill in True Crime Content
Elsa Soro (european business school)*; Lluís Garay Tamajón (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC))Fentanyl Tourism on YouTube: Serial Commodification of Urban Marginality
Erika Ningxin Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)*AI Fortune-Teller: Procedural Rhetoric and the Algorithmic Construction of Trust in AI Divination
Erika Ningxin Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)*Constituting Affective Reality: Platformed Nostalgia and Digital Materiality in the Chinese Hanfu Revival Movement
Errol Salamon (University of Stirling)*Platform-Mediated Labour and Professional Precarity: Producing Preconditions for Union Organizing in Journalism
Essi Holopainen (University of Helsinki)*; Meri Kulmala (University of Helsinki); Anu Katainen (University of Helsinki); Anna-Maija Multas (University of Helsinki)To understand and to be understood: Young people’s perceptions of peer support for mental health in social media
Esteban Morales (University of Groningen)*A wholesome insult, an uplifting threat: Making sense of toxicity amid ‘good vibes’ digital cultures
Gil Sharon (University of Leeds)*MAGA on TikTok: Issue Mapping a Political Network
Giota Alevizou (King’s College London)*From Encyclopedic Authority to Platformed Knowledge: Wikipedia, Social Media, and the Reconfiguration of Epistemic Power
Gordon Dimitrieff (Antwerp Management School)*Platform Nonmarket Strategies as Power Projection
Guillaume Latzko-Toth (Laval University)*; Clémentine Fruchard (Université du Québec à Montréal); Elsa Fortant (INRS); Claudine Bonneau (Université du Québec à Montréal); Florence Millerand (Université du Québec à Montréal)Algorithms for Academia: Mapping Users’ Imaginaries of Academic Social Networks
Hannah Artman (University of Missouri)*; Rutendo Chimbaru (University of Miami); Bonnie Deal (Phoenix College)“The culture is CHANGING!!!”: #MAHA, RFK, and the TikTok health influencer
Hao Xie (University of Warwick)*Performing ‘Mountains and Spices’ on Dianping: Cultural Politics and Platform Marketing of “Yunguichuan Bistros” in Urban China
Hui Lin (King’s College London)*; Yingwen Wang (University of The Arts London)Playing with Fate: Play Framing, Context Collapse, and Personal Data Disclosure in AI-Mediated Bazi Divination
Inessa De Angelis (University of Toronto)*Using YouTube Data to Measure Online Harassment in Canadian Politics
Inhwa Song (Princeton); Manoel Horta Ribeiro (Princeton); Marianne Aubin Le Quere (Princeton)*Information Wellbeing: Balancing News Knowledge and Mental Health
Irida Ntalla (University of the Arts London)*Intimacy capital, recognition, and ordinary creators on TikTok
Irina Bănoiu (Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS))*Out for the Algorithm: Queer Visibility and Self-Presentation on TikTok
Isabela Braga de Moura (COPPEAD Graduate School of Business)*; Claudia Araujo (COPPEAD Graduate School of Business); Marina Martins Siqueira (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (HIAE))Infodemics and Routine Vaccine Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Social Media and Communication Environments
Jaigris Hodson (Royal Roads University)*Discourses of Anti-Trans Disinformation on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis
Jake Street (Nottingham Trent University)*; Isibor Ihianle (Nottingham Trent University); Ahmad Lotfi (Nottingham Trent University)Differentiating Contact and Fatasy Online Grooming Offenders
Jessica Souza (University College Dublin)*; Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (University College Dublin)When Precarity Goes Viral: Entrepreneurial Ideology, Algorithmic Visibility and the Cross-Platform Reframing of Formal Employment
Jessica Witte (University of Edinburgh)*; Ari Stillman (University of Edinburgh)Terms of Service as Boundary Objects, or What the Post-API Era Actually Means for Research Ethics
Jiahao Sun (Hitotsubashi University)*Speaking Back Between Misogyny and Censorship: Three Counterpublic Strategies by Chinese Women
Jiayi Chen (University of Warwick)*Impatient feminism: Platform-mediated intimacy advice on Chinese social media
Jihye Kim (Umass Amherst)*The Duality of Media Actors and Culture: The White Afrikaner Refugee Controversy on YouTube
Jingyuan Liu (Boston University)*How do Terms of Service Influence Social Media Users Dynamics – A Privacy Anxiety Perspective
Joan Owen (Royal Roads University)*; Jaigris Hodson (Royal Roads University)Enhancing Micro-phenomenology with Qualitative, Semi-structured, Elicitation Interviews When Combined with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
John Hodson (University of Salford)*“Amazing body. Does the face match:” A Qualitative Study of how Queer Embodied Masculinities on Dating Apps Practice, Communicate and Build Trust with Anonymity
Joohee Kim (University of Massachusetts)*How Topics Flow Across Reddit Communities Through Shared User Participation: Comparative Study of Pre and Post COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse
Juan Pérez Martirené (Universidad Católica del Uruguay)*; Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez (Universidad Católica del Uruguay); Fernando Rosenblatt (University of Manchester)Do Electoral Stages Shape Digital Campaigning? Meta Strategies in Uruguay’s 2024 Elections
Julian Canjura (The Pennsylvania State University)*Stance-taking as a technology of power and the self: A linguistic anthropological approach for analyzing social media interaction
Jyoti . (IIT Jodhpur )*Memes as Micro-Archives: Documenting Everyday Life in Digital Culture
Kaitlyn McNamee (Marist University)*“Chat, Is This Real?”: Truth-Seeking Heuristics & Distributed Trust on Reddit’s r/isthisAI
Kata Számel (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences)*Status in the Palm of the Hand: Class-Based Patterns of Digital Leisure
Kate Mays (University of Vermont)*; Ellen Kozelka (University of Vermont)The Dynamics of Use, Motivations, Mindsets on Well-Being for Young Adults on TikTok
Kateryna Bystrytska (Rutgers University)*“My cat asks you to buy a drone”: How civilians in Ukraine strategically navigate social media logic to run small grassroots military fundraising campaigns
Katy Jordan (Lancaster University)*Where do UK universities represent themselves online? The institutional social media landscape post-Twitter
Kimberly Glasgow (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)*“I’m Crushed, Ashamed, and Shattered”: Moral Sentiment, Network Position, and Recovery Communities on Reddit
Klara Matusewicz (University of Manchester)*; João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester)Social media ‘back in the hands of the people’? Nuancing assumptions of legitimate content moderation on Mastodon
Kunqiang WU (School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University)*; Wanting HUANG (School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University)Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure Motivation to AI: A Multidimensional Perspective
Kunsang Choden (University of Washington)*Navigating Social Media in the Remote High Mountains: Aging, Literacy, and Technological Obsolescence in Nubri Valley, Nepal
Laia Corxet Solé (Scuola Normale Superiore)*Paths towards the far-right: the role of social media in young people’s political socialization
Laura Vodden (Digital Media Research Centre, QUT)*; Axel Bruns (Digital Media Research Centre, QUT)The Shifting Frontier of Data Access: Research, Restriction, and Rigmarole in the Meta Content Library
Linan Tang (King’s College London)*Student social media etiquette: Negotiating teacher authority in a Chinese university
Longxuan Zhao (Tongji University)*; Yuyang Cao (Tongji University)What Else Can We Do? Pessimistic Proactivity and Coerced Domestication in Chinese Gay Men’s Negotiations with Algorithms
Marianne Etherson (University of Glasgow)*Distinguishing suicide attempts from suicidal ideation in young people: The role of addictive digital behaviours and negative life events.
Marie Heřmanová (University College London)*Who gets to speak the truth? Russian invasion of Ukraine and construction of authenticity in social media communication
Matías Valderrama Barragán (Adolfo Ibáñez University)*The Social Life of the MSI Metric: Rationalities and Metrologies around “Meaningful Social Interactions” at Meta
Melissa Holland (North Carolina State University)*; Kyle Walker (North Carolina State University); Oreoluwa Badejoh (North Carolina State University); Vanessa Volpe (North Carolina State University); Brian TaeHyuk Keum (University of California, Berkeley); Jimi Huh (University of Southern California); Hans Oh (University of Southern California)Online Racism, Digital Mental Health Tools, and Online Mental Health Communication: A Cross Sectional Study Among Black Young Adults With and Without Depression or Anxiety
Michael Nevradakis (College Year in Athens)*From ‘Diaploki’ to Pluralism — Does Social Media Still Drive Change in Greece’s Political and Media Spheres?
Monica Chavez (University of Glasgow)*; Anna Feigenbaum (Universityof Glasgow); Rinlapas Ketverapong (University of Glasgow)‘Tapping into Your Feminine Energy’ Down the Alt-Right Pipeline: Comparing Narratives and Community Bonds in the Comment Sections of Tradwife and Divine Feminine Content Creators on TikTok
Monika Fratczak (Manchester Metropolitan University)*Feeling climate: how emotional responses to data visualisation shape political engagement
Nadia Urban (East China Normal University)*Learning the Algorithm: Algorithmic Grooming and Governance in Social Media Cultures
NAJIA NAZIR (Texas Tech University)*“What Should I Wear?” Facebook Groups as Sociotechnical Infrastructures for Embodied Rhetorical Agency
Nathalie Schäfer (Bauhaus-University Weimar)*Call the (Bot-)Police: User-Led Platform Governance of “(In)Authenticity” on Instagram
Neha Murthy (International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad)*; Brishti Sen Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Rajorshi Ray (International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad)Bartering networks: An ethnographic study on how Indian fashion micro-influencers engage in non-monetary exchanges
Nicholas John (The University of Manchester)*How is the internet imagined?: An analysis of drawings of the internet, 2014-2024
Nicole Sanchotene (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)*; Débora Salles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Daphne Silva (Federal University of Alagoas); João Haddad (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Marie Santini (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)“The solution to your pains!”: How scam ads exploit health disinformation on Meta platforms in Brazil
Nisha Rani (Manipal Institute of Communication)*; Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (School of Information and Communication Studies); Padma Rani (Manipal Institute of Communication)Navigating Health Information on YouTube: Trust, Misinformation, and Health Decision Making During COVID-19 in India
Oreoluwa Badejoh (North Carolina State University)*; Shedrick Garrett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Melissa Holland (North Carolina State University); Vanessa Volpe (North Carolina State University); Brian TaeHyuk Keum (University of California, Berkeley); Jimi Huh (University of Southern California); Hans Oh (University of Southern California)Social Media Use, Online Racism, and Mental Health among Black Emerging Adults
Pardis Yarahmadi (QUT)*A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement on the Islamic Republic Media
Patrick McHugh (Brown University)*; Tommy Barton (Brown University); Sami Peretz (Brown University)Enabling informed voter decisions via parsimonious factually falsifiable social media design
Pedro Lucas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)*New Cultural and Religious Practices: The Use of Facebook by Azorean Religious Communities
Peiyao Tang (Queen Mary University of London)*; Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne (Queen Mary University of London ); Aja Murray (University of Edinburgh); Mariya Stoilova (London School of Economics and Political Science); Marianne Etherson (University of Glasgow); Eliz Azeri (King’s College London); Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham); Chris Hollis (University of Nottingham); Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science); Edmund Sonuga-Barke (King’s College London)Beyond screen time: Differentiating specific digital activities as risks for adolescent mental health problems
Piotr Siuda (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz)*The logistics of visibility: Reconfiguring illicit drug trade on Telegram
Piotr Sochoń (Shanghai Jiaotong University)*; Nadia Urban (East China Normal University)The Epistemic Burden of AI Labels: Interface Governance and User Responsibility on Social Media
Qianzao Yang (University of Cambridge)*Hot Nerd, Femininity and Gender Relations in Post-socialist China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sapiosexuality on RedNote
Raquel Recuero (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)*“It is not about vaccines, it is about THEM!”: Othering and Discursive Violence in Anti-Vaccine Telegram Groups
Riley Wilson (Toronto Metropolitan University)*Reimagining the Metrosexual Moment for the 21st Century: The Plight of the Performative Male
Rinlapas Ketverapong (University of Glasgow)*Authenticity Beyond Strategy: Granfluencers and the Reimagining of Ageing in Digital Culture
Robert Pavlovich (Doctoral Candidate, Fox School of Business, Temple University)*; Bertrand Guillotin (Associate Professor, Management Department, Fox School of Business, Temple University)Governing Social Media Harms: A Critical Realist Extension of the Theory of The Firm
Roberto Graziano (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)*For a Theory of Onlife Practices: Studying Media with Bourdieu to Interpret Practices in the Interaction between Autochthonous Contexts and Digital Platforms
Sahar Sagha (Durham University)*Chords of Small Media Through Time
Samantha Vilkins (Queensland University of Technology)*; Katherine M. FitzGerald (Queensland University of Technology); Sebastian Svegaard (Queensland University of Technology); Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology)Information Practices in Fragmented Online Communities: Taylor Swift Fans and Anti-Fans on Reddit
Sanna Malinen (Tampere University)*Decoding algorithmic suppression: How digital activists uncover and navigate platform censorship in Finland?
Sarit Navon (Open University )*; Noam Gal (Open University); Ido Ramati (Hebrew University)Platformed Placemaking: Commemorative Stickers and the Production of Networked Places
Seraina Tarnutzer (University of Fribourg)*; Christian Pipal (University of Zurich)“Where’s my tradwives at?” A mixed-methods study of tradculture content on TikTok, young users’ perceptions, practices, and effects
Sevilay Cesurer (UAL)*Palestinian women’s social media practices in London: platformed strategies of resistance, solidarity and political expression
SHANGRU JIANG (Univeristy of Bristol)*From Forums to Feeds: The Platformized Transformation of Chinese K-pop Fandom
Shirley S. Ho (Nanyang Technological University)*; Junru Huang (CNRS@CREATE); Chang He (Nanyang Technological University)Combating Climate Misinformation via AI chatbots: How Interactivity and Lateral Reading Support Shape Trust, Perceived Response Credibility, and Further Verification Intentions
Shona Rooney (Queen’s University Belfast)*Masculinity and Social Change: A dramaturgical explanation of online misogyny
Sinthu Bhairavi Govindasamy Vinoba (Oktopost Technologies)*; Neelambari Govindasamy Vinoba (Community College, Central University of Tamil Nadu)Undoing Dravidian Feminism: How Tamil Women Influencers Are Re-Traditionalizing Gender Through Digital Culture
Son Tung Duong (Deakin University)*; Asma Husna (University of South Alabama); Nhung Nguyen (University of South Alabama)Virtual vs. Human Faces: A comparative study of influencer opinions and their effects on user perceptions and pro-environmental behavioral intentions
Srikanth Nayaka (Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore)*Enterprising Platform-Dependent Creators and the Rise of Creator-Dependent Labour in India
Stephanie Thelwall (London School of Economics)*Contemporary mediated civic becoming: Filipino American cultivation of civic agency through social media
Talia Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)*Narrative Singularity and Collective Resonance in TikTok Sexual Violence Disclosures and Networked Publics
Tamara Bodden (Universität Koblenz)*; Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University)“you are treshhhhh player” – Toxicity in Twitch Livestreams
Tess Arnold (Toronto Metropolitan University )*Not-So-Happy Ending: How failed series finales come to be and the reaction from online fan bases
Tobias Kietreiber (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)*; Felix Krejca (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten); Anna Neubacher (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten); Sebastian Neumaier (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten); Lukas Daniel Klausner (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)Down the Content Rabbit Hole: Making Algorithmic Content Shift on Short-Form Video Platforms Measurable
Tommaso Trillò (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)*; CJ Reynolds (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Pyung Hwa Park (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)From Post-Truth to Post-Objectivity: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Newsfluencer Values
Travis Lloyd (Cornell Tech)*The Day-Job Paradox: AI Vulnerabilities of Independent Musicians
Ümit Bedretdin (University of Helsinki)*; Dayei Oh (University of Strathclyde)Triadic polarisation in climate information sharing: Insights from Twitter during COP26 and COP27
Ursula Shepherd (University of Glasgow)*Sexual violence (in)justice online: Exploring the influence of negative discourses on victim-survivor justice seeking
Vincenzo Luise (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)*From street to screen: The visibility labor of Italian organized crime on TikTok
Wahiba Chair (University Canada West)*; Elva Fisher (University Canada West )Bluesky as a Teaching and Learning Tool for International Students in Hybrid Communication Courses
Walker Winslow-Stephenson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)*AI and the Assault on Epistemic Structures in Russian Information Operations
William Hollingshead (Toronto Metropolitan University)*; Anatoliy Gruzd (Toronto Metropolitan University); Philip Mai (Toronto Metropolitan University)Who watches whom: How YouTube channel networks organize migration discourse
Xin Zhao (Bournemouth University)*; Yunfei Li (Bournemouth University); Xiao Ma (Bournemouth University)Navigating Agency and Constraint: Racialised Emotions and Resistant Subjectivities in TikTok Anti-Asian Activism
Yang Xu (University of Helsinki)*Governance over hateful ideology: A longitudinal analysis of TikTok’s hate speech governance in 2018 – 2025
Yena Kang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)*“My CPU Is Heating Up”: Relational Labor and the Making of AI Companionship in the Creator Economy
Yingwen Wang (University of The Arts London)*; Zoetanya Sujon (University of the Arts London)“I Don’t Know Many Words, But I’m Smart”: Platform Literacies and Older Content Creators on Douyin
Yining Wang (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)*; Johannes Gruber (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); Yannik Peters (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); Katrin Weller (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)Gone But Not Missed? Understanding the Drivers and Implications of Post Deletions on Bluesky
Yu-Chung Cheng (National Chengchi University)*Authenticity Effects of Synthetic Images: Interactions among Political Cues, Context, and Platform Environments
Yuyang Cao (Tongji University); Yixiang Zhang (Tongji University); Longxuan Zhao (Tongji University)*“Cutting Ties” with AI? Perceptions and Management of AI Shaming among Young Art Creators in China
Zoe Hurley (American University of Sharjah)*; Sreya Mitra (American University of Sharjah)Platformed wifestyles: Comparative global #tradwife recipes for feminine social media success