Tagging a friend in a comment is one of the main mechanisms to lead user interaction in
social media. This paper investigates the current practice of user tagging in Instagram by …

Instagram has been increasingly used as a source of information especially among the
youth. As a result, political figures now leverage the platform to spread opinions and political …

Collective user behavior in social media applications often drives several important online
and offline phenomena linked to the spread of opinions and information. Several studies …

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only having a heavy impact on healthcare but also changing
people's habits and the society we live in. Countries such as Italy have enforced a total …

The spread of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed led to an increase in activity on
online social networks. This has resulted in users sharing unfiltered and unreliable …

In this paper, we highlight the use of Instagram for social activism, taking 2019 Hong Kong
protests as a case study. Instagram focuses on image content and provides users with few …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow users to generate and consume content in an easy
and personalized way. Among OSNs, Instagram has seen a surge in popularity, and political …

In 2020, when COVID-19 struck, social media gained even more influence in people's lives
due to increased online activity. This event led to a surge of false information and …

This article aims to discuss Mojok. co's style of political satire as an alternative to political
discussion. Mojok. co packages political messages that are easy to understand. This article …

Purpose Despite the widespread studies on the attitudes about OA, there exists little
comparative evidence about the opinions of author and non-author parties at a global level …