Social media

  1. Reinforcing the Unreal: Subliminals and the Normalization of Unscientific Body Transformations on Reddit
    Study reveals how Reddit subliminal communities use selective visibility and social reinforcement to sustain unrealistic body modification claims.
  2. Private hospital managers back legal regulation of healthcare advertising
    Qualitative study of private hospital managers' perspectives on healthcare advertising bans, regulatory gaps, and ethical concerns in Turkey
  3. Attitudes, Imagined Roles, and Governance Boundaries for AI in Decentralized Social Media
    Decentralized social media operators define boundaries for AI integration, rejecting autonomous systems in favor of tools that support human governance and community autonomy.
  4. How Well do LLMs Assist Parents in Assessing Child Appropriateness of Videos?
    Study evaluates large language models' ability to help parents assess video appropriateness for children under 7, finding models work better as descriptive aids than standalone decision-makers.
  5. Swiss COVID-19 discourse framed misinformation differently across media
    Explore how Swiss COVID-19 discourse defines misinformation versus disinformation using NLP analysis. Discover how public narratives reflect societal tensions and information literacy's role in.
  6. CSR post credibility shapes consumer interaction patterns
    Study identifies four CSR communication patterns on social media and finds validation elements paradoxically decrease consumer interactions compared to detailed information alone.
  7. Financial development’s effect on social progress varies by income level
    Nonlinear analysis of financial development's effects on social progress, examining ICT's moderating role across income levels and the necessity of tailored policies for inclusive outcomes.
  8. Chat option increased collaboration in social virtual reality
    Study comparing social virtual reality and video communication for remote collaboration, examining how chat functionality affects cooperation rates in ride-sharing simulations.
  9. Online support appears to add to, not replace, in-person support
    Cross-sectional study of 112 adults finds online social support functions as adjunct to traditional support rather than substitute, supporting rich-get-richer hypothesis.
  10. People’s Daily and CCTV News used different sentiment strategies on Douyin
    Study analyzing how Chinese state media (People's Daily and CCTV News) adapt rural revitalization content on Douyin using topic modeling and sentiment analysis to reveal institutional.
  11. Social media helped organize Indonesian protest agendas
    Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.
  12. Brexit sentiment was linked to weaker UK markets
    Analysis of social media sentiment regarding Brexit and its significant negative impacts on GBP exchange rates and FTSE-100 performance using time-series sentiment analysis methods.
  13. Facebook news cards shape interpretation of border dispute
    Study examines how Facebook news card design features influence audience interpretation of the India-Bangladesh border dispute through visual framing, emotional priming, and credibility markers.
  14. Operational transparency improved understanding, not engagement
    Research shows operational transparency in government social media improves public understanding and trust, but doesn't increase engagement or collaboration intentions.
  15. TikTok refugees and RedNote natives formed a cosmopolitan discursive community
    Explores how TikTok users and RedNote natives built digital solidarity during the US TikTok ban, forming cosmopolitan communities through cultural exchange and everyday communication practices.
  16. Social media supports climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction
    Systematic review examining how social media data and models support climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, identifying current applications and research gaps.
  17. Elevating Airline Public Relations: Leveraging Strategic KPIs for Advanced Brand Perception and Stakeholder Engagement
    Mixed-methods study examining KPI-driven public relations strategies in airline industry, emphasizing brand perception, stakeholder engagement, and strategic alignment with business objectives.
  18. Weibo opinion shifted with precipitation during Typhoon Muifa
    Study analyzing Sina Weibo discourse during Typhoon Muifa 2022, examining public sentiment and attention patterns across 19,417 posts using topic modeling and sentiment analysis to correlate.
  19. Social media data can support disaster response tracking
    Research methodology integrating NLP, machine learning, and visual analytics to extract actionable information from social media during environmental disasters.
  20. Examining Sponge City coverage and perceptions in global news media
    Analysis of 786 news articles reveals media alignment with academic research on China's Sponge City Program functions and challenges, but identifies gaps in technical nuance.