We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe trends in the use of social media
images as data sources to inform social science research in published articles from 2015 to …

The essential guide to decoding messages in a media-saturated world Media Literacy
teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in …

A key feature of a robust academic discipline is that its homegrown theories and investing in
theory contribute to building good research. In the field of sport and social media research …

Digital media are integrated into the lives of adolescents in almost every corner of the globe,
yet the extent of integration, how media are used, and the effects of media in development …

Branding and self-presentation strategies on text and visual platforms have been explored in
a variety of ways such as gendered analyses and content analyses performed on the social …

The term “self-disclosure” refers to actions by which individuals reveal information about
themselves. The interest in such conduct has resurged with the development of networked …

The purpose of this study is to explore Chinese and US athlete self-presentation in the 2020
Tokyo Olympics. By examining 1200 photographs posted by Olympians on social media, this …

This study examines Olympic champions' characteristics on Instagram to first understand
how age and gender affect the characteristics and their interrelations and second to see if …

The use of social media is reflective of an individual's culture. The purpose of this study was
to examine the influence of the cultural context on Australian and Singaporean …

In this case study, the authors examined media representations of two Chinese female
athletes—state athlete Ding Ning and professional athlete Li Na—in China, a nation …