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Romantic relationship initiation and escalation through mobile dating apps: Affordances, modality…

Like online dating sites, mobile dating applications are popular technologies for navigating the dating market, whether for seeking romantic relationships…

Human-Computer Interaction Social Media

July 23, 2024

Does world system theory rein in social media? Identifying factors contributing…

This article examined how social media content has shaped the representation of countries for publics around the world. Based on…

International Communication Public Diplomacy Social Media

April 17, 2024

Social media use, brand engagement, and tobacco product initiation among youth:…

Longitudinal research on social media use and social media-based tobacco exposures remains limited. In this prospective cohort study, youth with…

Social Media Tobacco Initiation Youth

March 11, 2024

The Social Contagion Potential of Pro-Vaccine Messages on Black Twitter

Black Americans in the US not only suffered from disproportionately high hospitalization and death rates throughout the pandemic but also…

Covid-19 Framing Social Media

March 2, 2024

The Promise and Pitfalls of Fact-checking in 2022

Given the evolution and growth of fact-checking around the globe, practitioners and academics have been gathering with increasing frequency to…

Climate Misinformation Social Media

February 4, 2024

COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation in Middle Income Countries

This paper introduces a multilingual dataset of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, consisting of annotated tweets from three middle-income countries: Brazil, Indonesia,…

Global Communication Misinformation Social Media

January 23, 2024

Technology, Privacy, and Sexting: Mediated Sex

Technology, Privacy, and Sexting: Mediated Sex takes a scientific approach to sexting, using both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate why…

Human-Computer Interaction Sex Social Media

November 6, 2023

Effects of #coronavirus Content Moderation on Misinformation and Anti-Asian Hate on…

This study evaluated the intended and unintended effects of Instagram’s content moderation on #coronavirus for both the short- and long-term…

Misinformation Race Social Media

August 4, 2023

Morally driven and emotionally fueled: The interactive effects of values and…

Drawing upon the literature on moral foundations theory and the social transmission of information, our study investigated the effects of…

Social Media

June 30, 2023

Compliance With the US Food and Drug Administration’s Guidelines for Health…

We developed the Warning Label Multi-Layer Identification (WaLi), a computer vision that is 99.3% accurate in detecting presence of health…

Health Communication Social Media

March 14, 2023

Research Topic: Social Media