A debate is currently raging regarding the value of anonymity online. On one side of the
debate is Facebook, the world's largest social network site. Facebook demands that people …

Rating features on social media platforms affect visibility algorithms and act as symbolic
markers of evaluation. This paper addresses the social effects of content ratings through a …

Incivility remains a major challenge for online discussion platforms, to such an extent that
even conversations between well-intentioned users can often derail into uncivil behavior …

Understanding the complex process of information spread in online social networks (OSNs)
enables the efficient maximization/minimization of the spread of useful/harmful information …

Social media platforms host various self-directed educator professional activities. There are
signs of substantial educator use of the discussion forum website Reddit, which offers …

This chapter is an exploration of bottom-up, or grassroots, prescriptivism and the shift in the
dynamics of language policing. The notion that language ideologies and norms are tied to …

Past research has attributed the circulation of online news to two main factors—individual
characteristics (eg, a person's information literacy) and social media effects (eg, algorithm …

E-cigarette use in the United States has significantly grown in recent years. Widespread
diffusion of e-cigarette content across social media communities may be contributing to this …

Cute pictures of animals feature as an inoffensive and adorable background to the
contemporary online experience with cute content regularly shared on social media …

Digitalization, underpinned by the ongoing pandemic, has transferred many of our everyday
activities to online places. In this study, we wanted to find out what online outlets people use …