Video-sharing platforms (VSPs) such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch have grown rapidly in
recent years and attracted millions of users. Research topics such as online communities …

Abstract The Digital Services Act (DSA) entered into force in November 2022 and is directly
applicable across the European Union since the beginning of 2024. The DSA imposes …

Scholarship in the sociology of medicine has tended to characterize diagnosis as disruptive
to one's self-concept. This categorization, though, requires reconsideration in light of public …

As much as users and advertisers have flocked to it, TikTok has been a success. To this
point, research on TikTok has been concerned with the nature of TikTok texts and the ways …

While privacy and surveillance are inextricably intertwined, they often co-exist uneasily in
scholarship. This essay argues that while surveillance studies centers questions of …

In response to content moderation that disproportionately censors discourse by and about
marginalized users, content creators on the video sharing platform TikTok have developed a …

Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social
media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often …

This article conducts a collaborative qualitative thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with
social media content creators (N= 53) based in and/or originated from the United Kingdom. It …

Despite opaque automated systems and few formal channels for participation, YouTubers
navigate algorithmic governance on the platform through a strategy we call user-generated …

Since the global virality of the 'Renegade'dance on TikTok and beyond in 2020, concerns
regarding the erasure of Black girls have been noted. This paper extends the conversation …