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Book SynopsisAs social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives. This incisive Research Handbook showcases the academic community’s responses to key societal challenges posed by evolving social media ecologies.
Multidisciplinary and international in outlook, leading contributors present wide-ranging and balanced coverage of social media research, including non-Western settings and the Global South. Chapters explore emerging interdisciplinary research methods which support the increasingly sophisticated, theoretical understanding in the field. They also debate the complex ethical issues confronting social media scholars today.
Students and early career researchers in communications, digital media and sociology will find this a highly valuable book. Due to its inclusion of diverse contexts and locales, this book will also be of interest to experienced researchers and academics.
Trade Review‘Taking a broad approach to social media scholarship, this book offers timely, comprehensive, and internationally diverse perspectives on how social media affects our cultural, political, and social lives. It is a milestone for our theoretical and methodological understanding of social media and an indispensable resource for students and scholars across the globe.’ -- Jörg Matthes, University of Vienna, Austria
‘A perpetual challenge with social media research has been to bring together work on methods, impacts and communicative interactions in a single volume. Skoric and Pang perform this task admirably with this far reaching handbook which showcases work by scholars from many different countries and continents. This is sure to be a widely used collection in a booming research field.’ -- Terry Flew, The University of Sydney, Australia
‘This insightful handbook effectively encapsulates many of the important issues and research areas related to social media. I would recommend this book as a perfect reference for students who are new to this field and an excellent addition to our growing library of social media research.' -- Muneo Kaigo, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Social Media and Society: social media scholarship reaches maturity xvii Marko M. Skoric and Natalie Pang PART I SEXUALITY, GENDER AND FAMILY 1 Social media and performative parenting 2 Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang 2 Factors predicting parental mediation in adolescents’ social media use 12 Liang Chen and Xiaoming Liu 3 Visible, controlled, and persistent: an affordances approach to understanding social media for transnational parenting among migrant mothers 27 Barui K. Waruwu 4 Mapping technology-facilitated sexual violence in Singapore 42 Shivani Gupta, Francis Luis Medado Torres, Sharon Yvette Xiomara Rosamor ’n Doen, Jungup Lee, Bimlesh Wadhwa and Michelle Ho PART II CULTURE AND POLITICS 5 Religious influencers and socially mediated cultural politics 58 Annisa R. Beta 6 The populist rhetoric of crowdfunding on digital media 70 Roei Davidson 7 Social media and crisis research 84 Patric R. Spence and Xialing Lin 8 Social media and reconciliation in post-conflict societies 98 Juma Kasadha 9 Consumers, commons, collectives: K-pop’s digital corps de ballet 112 Liew Kai Khiun and Sun Meicheng PART III CIVICS AND POLITICS 10 Monitoring and reputation: principal–agent relationships and the role of social media in political representation 125 Andrea Ceron 11 Political implications of disconnective practices on social media: unfriending, unfollowing, and blocking 135 Qinfeng Zhu 12 Teflonic social media behavior: why users refrain from participating in political discussions and why it matters 148 Márton Bene, Tamás Tóth and Manuel Goyanes 13 The affective resonance of norm-violation rhetoric in social media 161 W. Russell Neuman, George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen 14 Socio-technical and cultural threats to social movements in the Global South: vignettes from Indonesia 181 Abdul Rohman 15 Strategic public participation in the digital age: the case of the Austrian ‘Green Book’ 194 Noella Edelmann, Valerie Albrecht and Peter Parycek PART IV RESEARCH METHODS AND PEDAGOGIES 16 Big data analytical methods 211 Hai Liang 17 Public opinion analytics with social media 224 Kokil Jaidka 18 Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore 239 Gabriele de Seta 19 Looking back on the scroll back: reflections on the social media scroll back method 254 Claire Moran, Elianne Renaud, Taylor Annabell, Fan Yang and Brady Robards 20 A critical review of media and communications scholarship on messaging apps 269 Emma Baulch, Amelia Johns and Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández 21 How can we take advantage of students’ social media skills in the classroom? An international exploration 286 Maria-Jose Masanet and Carlos A. Scolari Index 302
