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This study explores how gay male employees represent themselves on social media. Research shows that online self-representations vary
according to imagined audiences and platforms’ affordances, but little is known about the possible roles of work in…

Given how strongly social media is permeating young people’s everyday lives, many of them have formed strong habits that, under specific

circumstances, can spiral out of control and bring harmful experiences. Unlike in extant literature where…

This article explores the role of censorship as a communication technology in shaping experiences of cosmopolitanization. Drawing on interviews
with urban Chinese gay men who circumvent the country’s Great Firewall, the article studies how…

People benefit from high-quality supportive messages online, yet the production of these messages is a complex process that is shaped by
multiple factors. As informed by the lens model, this study seeks to investigate the interplay of third party’s…

We conducted a randomized-controlled experiment with 201 participants to investigate the effects of relationship closeness, emotions, and the
receipt of Likes on reciprocal Liking behaviors. We found that individuals engaged in interchange-oriented…

Two large surveys with adult samples of Americans (N 1⁄4 1,105; N 1⁄4 1,035) investigated differences in perceived incivility between seven social
media platforms. Perceptions of incivility were targeted, given both their inherent societal relevance…

As the metaverse expands, understanding how people use virtual reality to learn and connect is increasingly important. We used the
Transformed Social Interaction paradigm (Bailenson et al., 2004) to examine different avatar identities and…