VOL 27 ISSUE 1 2022

A recurring hypothesis in the literature is that “passive” social media use (browsing) leads to negative effects on well-being. This preregistered study investigated a rival hypothesis, which states
that the effects of browsing on well-being depend…

The online sphere allows people to be personally anonymous while simultaneously being socially identifiable. Twitter users can use a pseudonym but signal allegiance to a political party
in their profile (e.g., #MAGA). We explore the interplay of…

This study examines how people experiencing homelessness invest their efforts in locating survival support over social media and crowdfunding and the barriers they experience along the way. Reporting on ethnographic fieldwork with unstably housed…

We propose a new way of imagining and measuring opinions emerging from social media. As people tend to connect with like-minded others and express opinions in response to current events on social media, social media public opinion is naturally…

This research explored how users interacted with inauthentic social media accounts with the goal of
gaining insight into tactics employed by state-backed disinformation efforts. We combine hand
coding with natural-language processing to measure the…