An emerging activist tactic on visual-based social media such as Instagram, slideshow
activism adapts the production and consumption of political information to the logic of the …

Background Increasingly, people are using social media (SM) to express grief, and
researchers are using this data to investigate the phenomenon of mourning. As this research …

Twitter is an increasingly common source of rich, personalized qualitative data, as millions of
people daily share their thoughts on myriad topics. However, questions remain unclear …

The purpose of this special issue is to offer new perspectives on fan cultures which respond
to changes and controversies that have happened since the last American Behavioral …

This study examines how the fandom of pop star Taylor Swift negotiates her
'political'awakening, after politically coming-out via Instagram in 2018. When Swift …

This article situates disability within online body positivity discourses through an analysis of
disabled young women's self-representation practices via the Twitter hashtag# …

This paper provides an analysis of a nostalgic Myspace discourse that contradicts the
narrative of Myspace as a failed platform. The Myspace nostalgia discourse is especially …

In light of the awareness that we know little about how algorithms are perceived by groups
other than those in the mainstream, this study investigates how Chinese gay men on Zhihu …

What happens if your favorite artist gets canceled? Can you remain a fan after such a
controversy? This study explores how fans–those with a strong affective bond toward their …

Qualitative researchers often encounter ethical challenges during their research process.
Due to the large number of papers in which researchers reflect on specific and various …