Social Media: A Critical Introduction

Restricting digital sites of dissent: commercial social media and free expression

Hintz, A. (2016) · Critical Discourse Studies · doi:10.1080/17405904.2016.1141695 · Cited by 27

The Growing Role of Social Media in International Health Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Stawicki, S. P., Firstenberg, M. S., & Papadimos, T. J. (2020) · Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23491-1_14 · Cited by 26

COVID-19 on YouTube: Debates and polarisation in the digital sphere

Luengo, Ó. G., Marin, J. G., & Blasio, E. D. (2021) · Comunicar · doi:10.3916/c69-2021-01 · Cited by 33

Towards Marxian Internet Studies

Fuchs, C. (2015) · BRILL eBooks · doi:10.1163/9789004291393_003 · Cited by 26

Digital Organizational Storytelling on YouTube: Constructing Plausibility Through Network Protocols of Amateurism, Affinity, and Authenticity

Bell, E., & Leonard, P. (2016) · Journal of Management Inquiry · doi:10.1177/1056492616660765 · Cited by 26

“Our Struggles Are Unequal”

Maragh-Lloyd, R. S. (2016) · Journal of Communication Inquiry · doi:10.1177/0196859916664082 · Cited by 29

Política de influencia y tendencia fake en Twitter. Efectos postelectorales (21D) en el marco del Procés en Cataluña

Curiel, C. P., & García-Gordillo, M. (2018) · El Profesional de la Informacion · doi:10.3145/epi.2018.sep.07 · Cited by 26

WhatsApp as a resource for group work in university students

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, M., Bucheli, M. G. V., & Terán, F. A. B. (2020) · Apertura · doi:10.32870/ap.v12n2.1911 · Cited by 26

Understanding Holocaust memory and education in the digital age: before and after Covid-19

Walden, V. G. (2021) · Holocaust Studies · doi:10.1080/17504902.2021.1979175 · Cited by 26

The Canadian Armed Forces “YouTube War”: A Cross-Border Military-Social Media Complex

Mirrlees, T. (2015) · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · Cited by 25

Platform politics: sport events and the affordances of digital and social media

McGillivray, D. (2016) · Sport in Society · doi:10.1080/17430437.2017.1232392 · Cited by 25

An Empirical Analysis of Social Media Usage by Local Governments in Portugal

Lameiras, M., Silva, T., & Tavares, A. F. (2018) · International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance · doi:10.1145/3209415.3209503 · Cited by 25

Public Archaeology in a Digital Age

Richardson, L. (2014) · UCL Discovery (University College London) · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1122524 · Cited by 27

From policy to platform: the digitization of Danish Cultural Heritage

Valtýsson, B. (2015) · International Journal of Cultural Policy · doi:10.1080/10286632.2015.1084300 · Cited by 24

Politicizing participatory culture at the margins: The significance of class, gender and online media for the practices of youth networks in the MENA region

Banaji, S., & Moreno-Almeida, C. (2020) · Global Media and Communication · doi:10.1177/1742766520982029 · Cited by 24

Public opinion on Twitter? How vote choice and arguments on Twitter comply with patterns in survey data, evidence from the 2016 Ukraine referendum in the Netherlands

van Klingeren, M., Trilling, D., & Möller, J. E. (2020) · Acta Politica · doi:10.1057/s41269-020-00160-w · Cited by 24

Digital Public Sphere and Geography: The Influence of Physical Location on Twitter’s Political Conversation

Casero-Ripollés, A., Micó, J.-L., & Bosch, M. D. (2020) · Media and Communication · doi:10.17645/mac.v8i4.3145 · Cited by 29

How Does the Politics of Fear in Russia Work? The Case of Social Mobilisation in Support of Minority Languages

Yusupova, G. (2021) · European Studies · doi:10.1080/09668136.2021.1965094 · Cited by 19

Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices

Valtýsson, B. (2022) · International Journal of Cultural Studies · doi:10.1177/13678779221079649 · Cited by 24

I’ll give you ‘punk archaeology’, sunshine

Richardson, L.-J. (2017) · World Archaeology · doi:10.1080/00438243.2017.1333036 · Cited by 24

Arabism and Anti-Persian Sentiments on Participatory Web Platforms: A Social Media Critical Discourse Study

KhosraviNik, M., & Sarkhoh, N. (2017) · International journal of communication · Cited by 24

The desirability of a meeting between cultural studies and the political economy of communication

Maigret, É., & Rebillard, F. (2015) · Réseaux · doi:10.3917/res.192.0009 · Cited by 24

Social Media Communicative Action and the Interplay with National Security: The Case of Facebook and Political Participation in Zimbabwe

Matingwina, S. (2018) · African Journalism Studies · doi:10.1080/23743670.2018.1463276 · Cited by 24

Del debate electoral en TV al ciberdebate en Twitter. Encuadres de influencia en las elecciones generales en España (28A)

Curiel, C. P., & García-Gordillo, M. (2020) · El Profesional de la Informacion · doi:10.3145/epi.2020.jul.05 · Cited by 24

How to hijack a discourse? Reflections on the concepts of post-truth and fake news

Krasni, J. (2020) · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0527-z · Cited by 24

It Starts With Me: Privacy concerns and stigma in the evaluation of a Facebook health promotion intervention

Witzel, T. C., Guise, A., Nutland, W., & Bourne, A. H. (2016) · Sexual Health · doi:10.1071/sh15231 · Cited by 24

Martin Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism: Philosophy of Technology and the Media in the Light of the "Black Notebooks". Implications for the Reception of Heidegger in Media and Communication Studies

Fuchs, C. (2015) · tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society · doi:10.31269/triplec.v13i1.650 · Cited by 23

The platformisation of culture: challenges to cultural policy

Valtýsson, B. (2022) · International Journal of Cultural Policy · doi:10.1080/10286632.2022.2137150 · Cited by 23

Invasion of Ukraine: Frames and sentiments in Zelensky’s Twitter communication

Nisch, S. (2023) · Journal of Contemporary European Studies · doi:10.1080/14782804.2023.2198691 · Cited by 30

Social Media Rhetoric of the Transnational Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement

Hitchcock, J. A. (2016) · Social Media + Society · doi:10.1177/2056305116634367 · Cited by 29

Religious e-Xpression among the Youths in the Indonesian Cyberspace

Epafras, L. C. (2016) · Jurnal ILMU KOMUNIKASI · doi:10.24002/jik.v13i1.596 · Cited by 23

When a ritual murder occurred at Purim. The harm in hate speech

Cohen‐Almagor, R. (2018) · El Profesional de la Informacion · doi:10.3145/epi.2018.may.20 · Cited by 22

Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age

Fuchs, C., & Fisher, E. (2015) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137478573_1 · Cited by 22

The body as a brand in social media: Analyzing Digital Fitness Influencers as Product Endorsers

Silva, M. J. D. B., de Farias, S. A., Grigg, M. H. K., & Barbosa, M. D. L. D. A. (2021) · Athenea Digital Revista de pensamiento e investigación social · doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.2614 · Cited by 22

A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory

Fuchs, C. (2023) · Theory and Society · doi:10.1007/s11186-023-09524-5 · Cited by 22

Does ‘bigger’ mean ‘better’? Pitfalls and shortcuts associated with big data for social research

Giardullo, P. (2015) · Quality & Quantity · doi:10.1007/s11135-015-0162-8 · Cited by 22

The Social Media Experiences of Long-term Patients: Illness, Identity, and Participation

Ytre-Arne, B. (2016) · Nordicom review/NORDICOM review · doi:10.1515/nor-2016-0002 · Cited by 22

People are the message? Social mobilization and social media in Brazil

Cardoso, G., & Fátima, B. D. (2016) · International journal of communication · doi:10.13140/rg.2.2.29631.33441 · Cited by 22

Power, evil and resistance in social structure: A sociology for energy research in a climate emergency

Galvin, R. (2019) · Energy Research & Social Science · doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101361 · Cited by 22

Rethinking social media for qualitative research: The use of Facebook Activity Logs and Search History in interview settings

Gangneux, J. (2019) · The Sociological Review · doi:10.1177/0038026119859742 · Cited by 27

That Message Went Viral?! Exploratory Analytics and Sentiment Analysis into the Propagation of TweetsPreprint

Samuel, J., Garvey, M. D., & Kashyap, R. K. (2020) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.09718 · Cited by 22

‘Old habits die hard’: discourses of urban filth in Swachh Bharat Mission and The Ugly Indian

Luthra, A. (2018) · Journal of Multicultural Discourses · doi:10.1080/17447143.2018.1467917 · Cited by 21

Constructing white autochthony in South Africa’s “soul country”: Intersections of race and land

Burnett, S. (2019) · Discourse Context & Media · doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2018.12.002 · Cited by 21

From “Troll Factories” to “Littering the Information Space”: Control Strategies Over the Russian Internet

Kiriya, I. (2021) · Media and Communication · doi:10.17645/mac.v9i4.4177 · Cited by 21

Marx’s Capital in the information age

Fuchs, C. (2016) · Capital & Class · doi:10.1177/0309816816678573 · Cited by 21

Solidarity Reloaded: Volunteer and Civilian Organizations during the Migration Crisis in Hungary

Bernát, A., Kertész, A., & Tóth, F. R. (2016) · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · Cited by 21

Comparing Influencers: Activity vs. Connectivity Measures in Defining Key Actors in Twitter Ad Hoc Discussions on Migrants in Germany and Russia

Bodrunova, S. S., Litvinenko, A., & Blekanov, I. S. (2017) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67217-5_22 · Cited by 22

Dramaturgical Analysis of Vlogger’s Impression Management on Social Media

Krisnawati, E. (2020) · Komunikator · doi:10.18196/jkm.121035 · Cited by 21

How users balance opportunity and risk : a conceptual exploration of social media literacy and measurement

Vanwynsberghe, H. (2014) · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · Cited by 21

Practice what you preach?

Stephansen, H. C., & Treré, E. (2019) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781351247375-1 · Cited by 20

A critical reflection on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education

Sewchurran, A., & Hofmeyr, B. (2020) · Acta Academica Critical views on society culture and politics · doi:10.18820/24150479/aa52i2/10 · Cited by 20

Contesting personalized recommender systems: a cross-country analysis of user preferences

Starke, C., Metikoš, L., Helberger, N., & de Vreese, C. H. (2024) · Information Communication & Society · doi:10.1080/1369118x.2024.2363926 · Cited by 20

Quelles perspectives critiques pour aborder les TIC ?

George, É. (2014) · Tic & société · doi:10.4000/ticetsociete.1365 · Cited by 20

A Turning IR Landscape in a Shifting Media Ecology: The State of IR Literature on New Media1

Jackson, S. T. (2018) · International Studies Review · doi:10.1093/isr/viy046 · Cited by 20

A model for the generation of public sphere-like activity in sport-themed Twitter hashtags

O’Hallarn, B., Shapiro, S. L., Wittkower, D. E., Ridinger, L. L., & Hambrick, M. E. (2018) · Sport Management Review · doi:10.1016/j.smr.2018.06.001 · Cited by 20

Cities at risk? Exploring the synergies between smartphones and everyday vulnerabilities

Amankwaa, E. F., & Blay, K. B. (2018) · Cities · doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.06.015 · Cited by 21

Please Like, Comment and Share our Campaign!: How Social Media Managers for Danish Political Parties Perceive User-Generated Content

Farkas, J., & Schwartz, S. A. (2018) · Nordicom review/NORDICOM review · doi:10.2478/nor-2018-0008 · Cited by 20

Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom

James, S. (2025) · Social Media + Society · doi:10.1177/20563051251351390 · Cited by 19

How to Do Things with Information Online. A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Social Networking Platforms as Epistemic Environments

Marin, L. (2022) · Philosophy & Technology · doi:10.1007/s13347-022-00569-5 · Cited by 19

Memes, History and Emotional Life

Barclay, K., & Downing, L. (2023) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009063715 · Cited by 19

The offline spill-over of signing online petitions against companies

Antonetti, P., & Manika, D. (2017) · Information Technology and People · doi:10.1108/itp-08-2016-0179 · Cited by 19

The discourse of the US alt-right online – a case study of the Traditionalist Worker Party blog

Lorenzo-Dus, N., & Nouri, L. (2020) · Critical Discourse Studies · doi:10.1080/17405904.2019.1708763 · Cited by 19

Collective pragmatic acting in networked spaces: The case of #activism in Arabic and English Twitter discourse

Altahmazi, T. H. (2020) · Lingua · doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102837 · Cited by 19

The Egyptian protest movement in the twittersphere: An investigation of dual sentiment pathways of communication

Bang, C. C., Lee, J., & Rao, H. R. (2021) · International Journal of Information Management · doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102328 · Cited by 19

Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown

Stratton, J. (2021) · Cultural Studies · doi:10.1080/09502386.2021.1898035 · Cited by 19

Radiografía de los micro-influencers en la economía de las plataformas digitales: insatisfacción, trabajo gratuito y desigualdad en la retribución

Villegas-Simón, I., Fernández-Rovira, C., Luque, S. G., & Bernardi, A. (2022) · Revista Latina de Comunicación Social · doi:10.4185/rlcs-2022-1805 · Cited by 19

Understanding the Social Media Audiences of Radio Stations

Al‐Rawi, A. (2016) · Journal of Radio & Audio Media · doi:10.1080/19376529.2016.1155298 · Cited by 19

Passé, présent et potentiel des plateformes collaboratives Réflexions sur la production culturelle et les dispositifs d'intermédiation numérique

Matthews, J. (2016) · Les Enjeux de l information et de la communication · doi:10.3917/enic.018.0057 · Cited by 19

What Would Media Studies Do?: Social Media Shakespeare as a Technosocial Process

Jarrett, K., & Naji, J. (2023) · Borrowers and Lenders The Journal of Shakespeare Appropriations · doi:10.18274/cuhk9246 · Cited by 18

Sport, Twitter Hashtags, and the Public Sphere: A Qualitative Test of the Phenomenon Through a Curt Schilling Case Study

O’Hallarn, B., Shapiro, S. L., Hambrick, M. E., Wittkower, D. E., Ridinger, L. L., & Morehead, C. A. (2018) · Journal of Sport Management · doi:10.1123/jsm.2017-0230 · Cited by 19

The Appropriation/Amplification Model of Citizen Journalism

Usher, N. (2016) · Journalism Practice · doi:10.1080/17512786.2016.1223552 · Cited by 22

“We Can Remember It for You”: Location, Memory, and Commodification in Social Networking Sites

Drakopoulou, S. (2017) · SAGE Open · doi:10.1177/2158244017712026 · Cited by 18

Measuring and Evaluating Reciprocal Journalism as a Concept

Coddington, M., Lewis, S. C., & Holton, A. E. (2018) · Journalism Practice · doi:10.1080/17512786.2018.1493948 · Cited by 18

Defining Digital Literacy in the Age of Computational Propaganda and Hate Spin Politics

Salma, A. N. (2019) · KnE Social Sciences · doi:10.18502/kss.v3i20.4945 · Cited by 18

Dialog als Mythos: normative Konzeptionen der Online-PR im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technikdeterminismus und strategischem Handlungsfeld

Sandhu, S. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-03396-5_4 · Cited by 18

Twitter-based discourse on migrants in Russia: The case of 2013 bashings in Biryulyovo

Bodrunova, S. S., Litvinenko, A., Gavra, D. P., & Yakunin, A. V. (2015) · International Review of Management and Marketing · Cited by 17

Gagged and Doxed: Hacktivism’s Self-Incrimination Complex

Fish, A., & Follis, L. (2016) · International journal of communication · Cited by 17

SOSYAL MEDYANIN NELİĞİ, GELİŞİMİ VE KULLANIM ALANLARI ÜZERİNE KURAMSAL BİR İNCELEME

GÜZEL, C. (2020) · Sosyolojik Düşün · doi:10.37991/sosdus.834698 · Cited by 17

Chinese university students’ imaginaries of China in “the New Era”

Wang, X., & Kuntz, A. M. (2021) · Asia Pacific Journal of Education · doi:10.1080/02188791.2021.1902784 · Cited by 18

The Voice of Silence: Patterns of Digital Participation Among Palestinian Women in East Jerusalem

de Vries, M., & Majlaton, M. (2021) · Media and Communication · doi:10.17645/mac.v9i4.4391 · Cited by 17

Influencers on the Russian Twitter

Bodrunova, S. S., Litvinenko, A., & Blekanov, I. S. (2016) · International Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia (EGOSE) · doi:10.1145/3014087.3014106 · Cited by 17

Cognitive capitalism, free labor, and financial communication: A critical discourse analysis of social media IPO registration statements

Nam, S. (2018) · Information Communication & Society · doi:10.1080/1369118x.2018.1510535 · Cited by 17

Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour

Jarrett, K. (2015) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137478573_12 · Cited by 17

Undermining anarchy: Facebook's influence on anarchist principles of organization in Occupy Wall Street

Swann, T., & Husted, E. (2017) · The Information Society · doi:10.1080/01972243.2017.1318195 · Cited by 17

El Síndrome de la Lesbiana Muerta : mecanismos de autorregulación del «fandom» LGBTI en las polémicas fan-productor de la serie «The 100»

Guerrero-Pico, M., Establés, M.-J., & Ventura, R. (2017) · Anàlisi · doi:10.5565/rev/analisi.3110 · Cited by 17

Rumor proliferation and detection in Social Media: A Review

Reshi, J. A., & Ali, R. (2019) · International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS) · doi:10.1109/icaccs.2019.8728321 · Cited by 17

Henryk Grossmann 2.0: A Critique of Paul Mason’s Book “PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”

Fuchs, C. (2016) · tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society · doi:10.31269/triplec.v14i1.757 · Cited by 17

Large-Scale Social Media Analysis Reveals Emotions Associated with Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use

Al-Garadi, M. A., Yang, Y., Guo, Y., Kim, S., Love, J. S., Perrone, J., & Sarker, A. (2022) · Health Data Science · doi:10.34133/2022/9851989 · Cited by 16

The Role of New and Social Media in Tanzanian Hip-Hop Production

Clark, M. K. (2014) · Cahiers d études africaines · doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.17958 · Cited by 16

Social media as a data gathering tool for international business qualitative research: opportunities and challenges

Goncalves, M. V., & Smith, E. C. (2018) · Journal of Transnational Management · doi:10.1080/15475778.2018.1475181 · Cited by 17

Digital Apostleship: Evangelization in the New Agora

Galang, J. R. F., & Macaraan, W. E. R. (2021) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel12020092 · Cited by 16

The Propaganda Model in the Digital Age: A Review of Literature on the Effects of Social Media on News Production

Demuyakor, J. (2021) · Shanlax International Journal of Arts Science and Humanities · doi:10.34293/sijash.v8i4.3598 · Cited by 16

The collective storytelling organisational framework for social media use

Davids, Z., & Brown, I. (2021) · Telematics and Informatics · doi:10.1016/j.tele.2021.101636 · Cited by 16

Open Data, Crowdsourcing and Game Mechanics. A case study on civic participation in the digital age

Handler, R. A., & Conill, R. F. (2016) · Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) · doi:10.1007/s10606-016-9250-0 · Cited by 16

Teaching Language, Promoting Social Justice

Anwaruddin, S. M. (2019) · CALICO Journal · doi:10.1558/cj.35208 · Cited by 16

Apenas uma postagem? previsões de vendas diárias de empresas varejistas de beleza e cosmético a partir da influência de mídias sociais

Pessanha, G. R. G., & Soares, E. A. (2021) · ReMark - Revista Brasileira de Marketing · doi:10.5585/remark.v20i4.17914 · Cited by 15

Critical media literacy for uncertain times: Promoting student reflexivity

Currie, D. H., & Kelly, D. M. (2022) · Journal of Media Literacy Education · doi:10.23860/jmle-2022-14-2-2 · Cited by 15

Media Action Research Group: toward an antiauthoritarianprofeministmedia research methodology

Jeppesen, S., Hounslow, T., Khan, S., & Petrick, K. (2017) · Feminist Media Studies · doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1283346 · Cited by 16

Doing social network ethics: a critical, interdisciplinary approach

Jones, S. P. (2017) · Information Technology and People · doi:10.1108/itp-04-2016-0093 · Cited by 17

Transparencia y monitorización en el entorno digital. Hacia una tipología de las plataformas impulsadas por la ciudadanía

Alonso-Muñoz, L., & Casero-Ripollés, A. (2017) · Revista Latina de Comunicación Social · doi:10.4185/rlcs-2017-1223 · Cited by 15

Christian Fuchs (2014): Social Media. A critical introduction. Los Angeles et al.: Sage Publications

Muhle, F. (2014) · Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft · doi:10.5771/1615-634x-2014-4-662 · Cited by 2

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Christian Fuchs: Social Media: A Critical Introduction

Wimmer, J. (2015) · Publikationsserver (Universitat Marburg) · doi:10.17192/ep2015.1.3513 · Cited by 2

Is Data the New Coal? - Four Issues with Christian Fuchs on Social Media

Raetzsch, C. (2016) · Networking Knowledge Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network · doi:10.31165/nk.2016.95.460 · Cited by 4

Die Politische Ökonomie von Social Media durchdringen

Dander, V. (2017) · MedienPädagogik Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung · doi:10.21240/mpaed/xx/2017.10.24.x