From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and
personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage …

Social media platforms rose up out of the exquisite chaos of the web. Their founders were
inspired by or hoping to capitalize on the freedom it promised, while also hoping to provide …

The coronavirus disease-19 pandemic introduced a crisis of safety and relevance for dating
apps, as their affordances for facilitating in-person encounters posed the risk of viral …

ABSTRACT Mobile dating applications ('apps') have increased in popularity over recent
years, with Tinder among the first to break into the mainstream heterosexual market. Since …

Despite the participatory and democratic promises of Web 2.0, many marginalized
individuals with fluid or non-normative identities continue to struggle to represent …

In recent years, several instances of political actors who created fake grassroots activity on
the Internet have been uncovered. We propose to call such fake online grassroots activity …

Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of
men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. It argues that the male body has become …

Facebook has fundamentally changed how the world connects. No other company has
played a greater role in the history of social networking online. Yet Facebook is no longer …

This article examines how search engines and social‐networking sites enable and constrain
the identity‐related information practices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer …

In the context of recent controversies surrounding the censorship of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer online content, specifically on YouTube and Tumblr, we interrogate …