Social media platforms employ algorithmic recommendations to optimize the user's
experience and incentivize particular forms of cultural production. While prior research …

As social media are increasingly integrated into our lives, scholars have examined how
social media use can inform beliefs about politics and science. This study considers the …

Social media engagement is ubiquitous but contested, simultaneously framed as an
everyday form of support and an urgent societal risk. To make sense of these competing …

Commercial image banks powerfully shape the cultural meanings of social media,
especially when circulated as “fact” in the news media. To this end, we report a social …

This article focuses on the similarities and differences between visual value content on
German and Ukrainian Instagram, employing the methodology of traditional, modernist, and …

This article is motivated by the phenomenon of the ownership of multiple accounts on
Instagram among teenagers. Previous research mentioned that a second Instagram account …

While the term “values” is widely invoked to construct identities, set boundaries, and justify
decisions, its use has evaded systematic analysis. This is particularly intriguing in the …

In this dissertation, I introduce the concept of political privacy and describe its rela tionship to
the principles of democratic state. Although the political aspects of privacy have been the …

Visual elements play an important role within the multimodal nature of social media (Pearce
et al., 2020). A growing body of research has focused on the analysis of still and moving …

TikTok's popularity among youth may be uncontested, but some of its content certainly is.
This chapter zooms in on the content of so-called “What I Eat in a Day” videos (from now on …