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Zizi Papacharissi

Zizi Papacharissi

@zizip.bsky.social

2.3K followers 380 following 33 posts

UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series

Zizi Papacharissi is a Greek-American social scientist and professor. She is a UIC Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago. She also serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Social Media + Society. .. more

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 17d

New on our feed📲Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media - Jennifer Ihm, Eun-mee Kim, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 17d

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism - Lydia Cheng, Bunty Avieson, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism - Lydia Cheng, Bunty Avieson, 2025

Guided by boundary work, this study aims to investigate how lifestyle journalism’s boundaries are changing in response to the rise of creator culture. Specifica...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(9/9) Social Media’s Midlife Crisis? How Public Discourse Imagines Platform Futures - Chelsea Butkowski, Frances Corry, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(8/9) Knowing Your Users by Heart: A Critical Examination of the Scientific Research on Emotions Conducted by Social Media Platforms - Camille Alloing, Elsa Fortant, Julien Pierre, Fabien Richert, Rémi Palisser, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(7/9) “Stop Being so Fkn Soft”: Masculinity, Politics, and the Acceptance of Gender-Based Online Violence Myths Among Young Canadian Men - Esteban Morales, Jaigris Hodson, Yimin Chen, Kaitlynn Mendes, George Veletsianos, Chandell Gosse, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(6/9) China Defenders From Abroad: Exploring Pro-China Foreign Political Influencers on X/Twitter - Leiyuan Tian, Fan Liang, Zhao Alexandre Huang, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(5/9) Flame Badges and Virtual Pets: Gamified Sociality on Douyin - Hui Lin, Rafal Zaborowski, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(4/9) Watch, Scroll, Repeat: How Interface Design Shapes Consumptive Curation Affordances on TikTok - Carlos Entrena-Serrano, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(3/9) Fierce Feminism or False Promises? Netizens’ Perceptions of the Party-State in Gender Controversies on Weibo - Xiaoyi Liu, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

(2/9) Black Twitter as “Master” Social Architects: Maintaining Online Community Boundaries Through the Production of Time and Place - Cynthia N. McLeod, 2025
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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 20d

🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
(1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 24d

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 2023 - Zachary P. Rosen, Joseph B. Walther, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 24d

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea - Heesoo Jang, Narayanamoorthy Nanditha, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea - Heesoo Jang, Narayanamoorthy Nanditha, 2025

This article introduces the concept of layered affordances to affordance theory, providing a framework for analyzing how digital platform affordances intersect ...

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 24d

Manuscript Monday! More new on our feed📲Scrolling Through Chaos: The Implications of TikTok for Crisis Sensemaking - Christy Khoury, Jeff Hemsley, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · 24d

(New) Manuscript Monday! Now posted on our feed📲Projecting Culture Through Hashtag Activism: The #IAmABlackMan Challenge on Instagram - Candice L. Edrington, Tara M. Mortensen, Odera Ezenna, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

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Macau Mak @macaukfmak.bsky.social · 29d

New Pub @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social 📢

With multiplatform #socialmedia use on the rise, we (w/ @prowag.bsky.social ) introduce a two-step approach to investigate how networks across platforms conjointly & distinctly relate to incidental exposure.

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Oct 27

Manuscript Monday! More new on our feed 📲 From Politics to Entertainment: Exploring “News Finds Me” Perceptions Across News Topics - Afrooz Mosallaei, Luxuan Wang, Katherine Ognyanova, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #polisky

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Oct 27

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity - Łukasz Szulc, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Oct 27

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 State Interests, Global Platforms: How Chinese Journalists Use American Platforms at Work - Tucker Wang-Hai, Bibo Lin, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Oct 27

Manuscript Monday! Check out what's new on our feed 📲 How do Healthy Political Discussions Invigorate Online Participation? Evidence from 17 European Countries - Laia Castro et al, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #polisky

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Sophia A. Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social · Oct 17

🟡 My report on Public Service Media and Democracy in the Digital Age, ft. insights from leading thinkers @ethanz.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @publicspaces.net @angelquicksey.bsky.social @newpublic.org @vpro.nl @felixsimon.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social @zizip.bsky.social 🟡

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Regulation of Child Influencers in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region - Crystal Abidin, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Price of Virality and the Imperative for (Self) Regulation of Child Social Media Influencers in Taiwan - Yavor A. Kostadinov, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Growing Up Online Through Divorce: Child Influencers and Family Change in Indonesia - Ariane Utomo, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars - Emma Baulch, Benjamin Y. H. Loh, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Negotiating Gender, Race, and Nationhood in Parenting on Douyin: White Mummy Bloggers in Chinese-Foreign Marriages in China - Xinxin Jiang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Performing Girlhood and Sisterhood in China: Chinese International Student Influencers’ Everyday Self-Presentation on RedNote - Wenxiang Zeng, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Young People on Social Media: The Implications of Child Influencers in Vietnam - Nguyen Do Doan Hanh, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture - Devina Sarwatay, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Korean Toddlers at Play or at Work? Commodifiable Authenticity of Sponsored Child-Rearing Vlogs - Hanwool Choe, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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