Purpose–The purpose of this paper from the series “Monitoring the Media: Spotlight on
Social Media Research” is to look into different approaches to study uses of social media …

Hate speech is considered to be one of the major issues currently plaguing the online social
media. With online hate speech culminating in gruesome scenarios like the Rohingya …

Social media, and people's online self-presentations and social networks, add complexity to
people's experiences managing changing identities during life transitions. I use gender …

Instagram is one of the fastest-growing photo sharing social media platforms. Drawing from
the uses and gratification theory (U&G theory), this study examines the gratifications in photo …

Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic
practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms. It introduces new …

Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports
the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring …

Purpose Since its launch in 2007, research has been carried out on the popular social
networking website Tumblr. The purpose of this paper is to identify published Tumblr-based …

Previous research suggests that students often use social network sites (SNS) as academic
distractors, though little is known about the association between students' use of individual …

Tumblr is one of the most popular content sharing websites, where the use of keyword tags
that enhance the searchability and visibility of posts is prominent. However, this resource …

News organizations, faced with financial challenges in transitioning to a digital era, have
embraced social media to attract an audience. Little, however, is empirically known …