Chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal are increasingly popular platforms for
communication. Their sometimes-closed nature and encryption affordances present …

Personal messaging platforms are hugely popular and often implicated in the spread of
misinformation. We explore an unexamined practice on them: when users create “group …

Social media platforms continue to flourish as practices encompassing them become deeply
embedded in many cultures. As more people embrace social media platforms, their …

Digital astroturfing and computational propaganda have drawn a lot of attention in recent
years because of the malicious effects on the political environment, especially in the face of …

According to lifestyle politics theory, social media platforms introduce new ways for people to
engage in civic life. Based on the communication mediation model, prior scholarship laid out …

This study investigates the impact of mobile social networking applications in the
organisation of protest movements by examining how protesters documented their …

In this article, we present an analysis of distinctive WhatsApp uses with a focus on group
dynamics, and how they are correlated with exposure to, belief in, accidental, and …

This paper aims to understand the practices and meanings associated with the creation and
use of private chat groups on instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram …

Social media have caused adaptations to existing conceptualizations of democratization,
democratic backsliding, and authoritarian hardening. One attempt to capture how social …

Internet, social media, and app shutdowns have become frequent, not only in authoritarian
states but also in emerging and fragile democracies. As Russian authorities enforced a legal …