Social Media research Archive
The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse
Chess, S. (2026, Cambridge: The MIT Press).The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553889/the-unseen-internet/ Overview: Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s […]
Emotional needs and social media: Platform behavior patterns and adolescent well-being
Ben Libon (Ph.D. student) & Lance Porter. “Emotional needs and social media: Platform behavior patterns and adolescent well-being,” Paper to be presented at the 76th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Cape Town, […]
Parasocial: How Strangers Structure Our Online (And Offline) Lives
Jessica Maddox, Parasocial: How Strangers Structure Our Online (And Offline) Lives, for publication in February 2028, Sourcebooks. Synopsis: a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining guide to how parasocial relationships came to […]
Participation in Electronic Cigarette-Related Social Media Communities: Effects on Attitudes towards Quitting, Self-efficacy, and Intention to Quit.
Abstract: This study examined the effects of joining and actively participating in e-cigarette-related social media communities (SMCs), along with e-cigarette-related subjective norms, and social identification with other e-cigarette users, on […]
Dissecting the Root of Vaccine Misinformation on Pinterest: A Content Analysis of Vaccine-Related Pins by Influential Social Media Accounts
Abstract: Given the role the Internet plays in communicating anti-vaccine sentiments, coupled with limited research in this area, this study focused on the social media platform Pinterest, analyzing 1,119 vaccine-related […]