Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/14614448251413689
Delia Dumitrescu
We combine AI-based visual content analysis data with large-scale topic modeling to examine the proportion of coverage and the visual construction of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza in Facebook posts published by 51 top European media organizations between 25 February and 2 April 2024 ( N > 90,000 posts). This period coincides with the 2-year anniversary of the Russian invasion and overlaps with the sixth month of the war in Gaza. The analysis finds an imbalance in the volume of coverage allocated to the two wars, as well as war-specific visual framing devices, but also similarities in their portrayals. Ultimately, in both cases, the visualization of war creates a distance between the viewers and those affected on the ground.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/14614448261416891
Aparajita Bhandari, Sara Bimo, Chelsea Butkowski
In today’s digital landscape, platforms increasingly “feel like” social media. We observe the “social media-fication” of so-called “non-social media” platforms as expressive characteristics of traditional social media platforms are incorporated into mobile apps typically used for other purposes. We argue that this manifests through the repackaging of user behavioral data into expressive social updates, such as GPS maps capturing user movement or the personalized data visualizations of Spotify Wrapped. To examine this phenomenon, we completed platform walkthroughs for three apps: fitness tracking app Strava, payment app Venmo, and music streaming app Spotify. We theorize the concentration and intensification of datafication as a process that we term hyperdatafication. Hyperdatafication emerges through the repurposing of “backend” user data into socially mobilizable data representations, which encourage and further platform engagement within the sociotechnical landscape of affective capitalism. Ultimately, this study raises questions about self-tracking, commodification, and platformed sociality beyond social media.
{"title":"Social media-fication in the apposphere: Hyperdatafication and the repackaging of personal data","authors":"Aparajita Bhandari, Sara Bimo, Chelsea Butkowski","doi":"10.1177/14614448261416891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261416891","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s digital landscape, platforms increasingly “feel like” social media. We observe the “social media-fication” of so-called “non-social media” platforms as expressive characteristics of traditional social media platforms are incorporated into mobile apps typically used for other purposes. We argue that this manifests through the repackaging of user behavioral data into expressive social updates, such as GPS maps capturing user movement or the personalized data visualizations of Spotify Wrapped. To examine this phenomenon, we completed platform walkthroughs for three apps: fitness tracking app Strava, payment app Venmo, and music streaming app Spotify. We theorize the concentration and intensification of datafication as a process that we term hyperdatafication. Hyperdatafication emerges through the repurposing of “backend” user data into socially mobilizable data representations, which encourage and further platform engagement within the sociotechnical landscape of affective capitalism. Ultimately, this study raises questions about self-tracking, commodification, and platformed sociality beyond social media.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146098410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/14614448251415024
Nathan Stolero
This study examines how former teenage hostages use TikTok to process and present their captivity and its aftermath. Through a qualitative thematic analysis of 67 TikTok videos created by adolescent survivors of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the study explores how platform-specific affordances—viral trends, POV storytelling, dark humor, and digital memorialization—shape trauma narratives. Findings reveal that TikTok enables young survivors to renegotiate their post-captivity identities through participatory storytelling, humor as a coping mechanism, and the integration of personal grief into collective digital memory. The study situates these practices within theories of trauma representation, adolescent identity development, and Goffman’s dramaturgical model, illustrating how TikTok serves as both a space for self-expression and a site of performative meaning-making. By bridging digital media studies with trauma psychology, this research highlights the evolving role of social media in shaping adolescent resilience and identity reconstruction.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1177/14614448251413687
Regina Cazzamatta
Following Zuckerberg’s decision to terminate third-party fact-checking and his association of fact-checkers with censorship, this article examines how platforms respond to falsehoods post-debunking and explores fact-checkers’ views on effective content moderation, particularly regarding content removal or reduced visibility. A comparative content analysis of 2053 debunking articles by 16 Meta partners across 8 European and Latin American countries reveals that most false content was labeled or remained online, with deletion occurring in approximately 30% of cases—though it remains unclear whether the removal was carried out by Facebook or by the original spreaders. In addition to 30 expert interviews, the study finds that fact-checkers prioritize counter-speech and transparency, rejecting a permissive “anything goes” stance. Some support removals in cases involving incitement to violence, illegality, or harmful health misinformation. Most agree that freedom of expression should not guarantee algorithmic amplification. Concerns were also raised about the politicization and potential manipulation of Community Notes.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14614448251412860
Jesper Sommer Rasmussen
Social media is where most people report experiencing toxicity. While existing research has documented the prevalence and predictors of toxic behaviors, less is known about how individuals who engage in toxicity perceive and justify their actions, especially on mainstream platforms. This study addresses this gap by conducting 25 in-depth interviews with individuals who were toxic in political discussions on Facebook and Twitter. The findings reveal that many view their toxicity as a form of political participation. Three distinct justifications for toxicity were identified: venting political frustrations, pursuing truth through blunt deliberation, and seeking to persuade or mobilize others. These findings suggest that toxic speech can function as a deliberate, albeit hostile, form of political engagement, and they highlight the diverse functions social media serves for politically motivated users. The study calls for targeted interventions to address the distinct motivations underlying toxicity.
{"title":"Toxic speech as political participation: How social media users justify toxicity in political discussions","authors":"Jesper Sommer Rasmussen","doi":"10.1177/14614448251412860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251412860","url":null,"abstract":"Social media is where most people report experiencing toxicity. While existing research has documented the prevalence and predictors of toxic behaviors, less is known about how individuals who engage in toxicity perceive and justify their actions, especially on mainstream platforms. This study addresses this gap by conducting 25 in-depth interviews with individuals who were toxic in political discussions on Facebook and Twitter. The findings reveal that many view their toxicity as a form of political participation. Three distinct justifications for toxicity were identified: venting political frustrations, pursuing truth through blunt deliberation, and seeking to persuade or mobilize others. These findings suggest that toxic speech can function as a deliberate, albeit hostile, form of political engagement, and they highlight the diverse functions social media serves for politically motivated users. The study calls for targeted interventions to address the distinct motivations underlying toxicity.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14614448251412349
Marialina Antolini, Kjerstin Thorson
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated inequalities in the Global South. This study examines how youth groups, known as coletivos , from low-income communities in Brazil used social media platforms during the pandemic to organize themselves. Our analysis focuses on the intersectionality of place and digital activism. Using in-depth interviews and online observation, the findings are analyzed through three lenses: the groups’ understanding of place, how the pandemic affected their place functioning and sense-making (agenda-focused, local-focused, and agenda-local groups), and how this process strengthens the different types of places (ranging from online to physical communities, encompassing local neighborhoods to national level groups). We show a significant variation across groups in the relationship between Internet dependency and place of action. Findings also demonstrate how the groups adapted their collective action toolkit to suit the digital platforms and developed new ones. This study aims to contribute to understanding activism among youth in the Global South.
{"title":"We had to rely on Instagram: Activist youth in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Marialina Antolini, Kjerstin Thorson","doi":"10.1177/14614448251412349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251412349","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated inequalities in the Global South. This study examines how youth groups, known as <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">coletivos</jats:italic> , from low-income communities in Brazil used social media platforms during the pandemic to organize themselves. Our analysis focuses on the intersectionality of place and digital activism. Using in-depth interviews and online observation, the findings are analyzed through three lenses: the groups’ understanding of place, how the pandemic affected their place functioning and sense-making (agenda-focused, local-focused, and agenda-local groups), and how this process strengthens the different types of places (ranging from online to physical communities, encompassing local neighborhoods to national level groups). We show a significant variation across groups in the relationship between Internet dependency and place of action. Findings also demonstrate how the groups adapted their collective action toolkit to suit the digital platforms and developed new ones. This study aims to contribute to understanding activism among youth in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14614448251413136
Arista Beseler, Florian Toepfl, Daria Kravets, Julia Kling
Anti-democratic counterpublic news media frequently open up participatory spaces, inviting their audiences to partake in the discussion of their content. However, research on how commenters engage in such participatory spaces opened up and overseen by anti-democratic actors is scarce. In order to fill this gap, we present in this article a case study of the 250 most active commenters on RT German’s Facebook page in a 6-month period at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. Using a mixed-methods approach combining large-scale data scraping with quantitative and qualitative content analysis, we find that the majority of these highly active commenters constituted an anti-democratic counterpublic. However, we also observed a smaller collective of commenters, whom we theorize as “disruptive public” as they vigorously sought to challenge the activities of the anti-democratic counterpublic. We discuss the benefits and risks of various strategies of disrupting anti-democratic counterpublics and consequences for democratic debate.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14614448251413287
Flora Gatti, Fortuna Procentese, Alexander P Schouten
People-Nearby Applications (PNAs) can impact users’ local social capital and sense of community (SoC), by allowing users to meet new people locally and enhance their SoC through increased local social capital and active involvement in the community of belonging. An online questionnaire was administered to 595 Italian and Dutch PNAs users to detect their PNAs community-related use, frequency of face-to-face encounters with other users, local social capital, active involvement, and SoC. A multiple mediation model was run using structural equation modeling. PNAs use associates to face-to-face encounters among local community members and community social capital, but not to community involvement. Through social capital, PNAs use indirectly enhances SoC. These results show that PNAs community-related use may enhance local community experiences through prompting face-to-face encounters among community fellows and making users feel more embedded into local social networks. This confirms PNAs community-related use potential to improve users’ neighborhood social and community experiences.
{"title":"Ubiquitous local community experiences: The impact of People-Nearby Applications on users’ social capital, local involvement, and sense of community","authors":"Flora Gatti, Fortuna Procentese, Alexander P Schouten","doi":"10.1177/14614448251413287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251413287","url":null,"abstract":"People-Nearby Applications (PNAs) can impact users’ local social capital and sense of community (SoC), by allowing users to meet new people locally and enhance their SoC through increased local social capital and active involvement in the community of belonging. An online questionnaire was administered to 595 Italian and Dutch PNAs users to detect their PNAs community-related use, frequency of face-to-face encounters with other users, local social capital, active involvement, and SoC. A multiple mediation model was run using structural equation modeling. PNAs use associates to face-to-face encounters among local community members and community social capital, but not to community involvement. Through social capital, PNAs use indirectly enhances SoC. These results show that PNAs community-related use may enhance local community experiences through prompting face-to-face encounters among community fellows and making users feel more embedded into local social networks. This confirms PNAs community-related use potential to improve users’ neighborhood social and community experiences.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14614448251410510
Ida Roivainen
To explore the strengthening role of influencer marketing agencies, this study turns its focus away from creators to the ‘backstage’ of feminised social media work. Using an algorithmic ethnographic approach informed by critical feminist inquiry, this study investigates how influencer marketing agencies’ data practices shape content creation. Through observation and content analysis of creator events, staff meetings, briefings, webinars and other educational material, as well as interviews with staff members, three distinct categories connected with data practices were recognised: anticipation, adaptation and negotiation. It is argued that while influencer agencies negotiate between creation and platform control, they only rarely resist the algorithmic logics of platforms or negotiate practices to fit their ideals instead of adapting to platforms and their business models. Situating agencies’ daily work within the larger historical tradition of advertising, commodification of audiences and feminised labour, this study offers pathways for understanding how influencer marketing shapes social media today.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14614448251413711
L. Lusike Mukhongo, Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards, Cynthia Klekar Cunningham, Winston Mano, Habeeb Abdulrauf, Abdullah Mohaimen
In regions with unreliable electricity and limited Internet access, low- power AI tools offer scalable solutions for low-bandwidth environments. In Kenya’s Mau Forest, AI-generated SMS messages on low-power feature phones offer possibilities for advancing climate justice for Ogiek Indigenous people. Through interviews, focus group discussions, and direct observation, the study examined how low-power AI SMS systems can be integrated with Indigenous Knowledge to enhance land rights, food security, and climate resilience. While challenges such as electricity, Internet connectivity, and cost of airtime persist, the key drivers for adoption emerged as community trust in co-designed low-power tools, alongside their usability. The study demonstrates the affordances of co- designed, low-power tech in mediating user priorities and underscores data sovereignty as a fundamental expression of indigeneity in reclaiming agency over their digital futures.
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