Academic Research

Social Media Images as an Emerging Tool to Monitor Adherence to COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines: Content Analysis. Sean D Young, Qingpeng Zhang, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Yongcheng Zhan, and William Cumberland. Journal of Medical Internet Research. [Public Health].

It’s Not How You Say It, It’s What You Say: Ambient Digital Racism and Racial Narratives on Twitter. Felipe I. Agudelo and Natalie Olbrych. Social Media+ Society. [Communications].

Social Network Influence: Making the Case for Semantic Analysis. David Oriedi et al. IEEE Access. [Computer Science].

Describing the use of behavior change techniques among the most popular home workout channels on YouTube: A quantitative content analysis. Wuyou Sui, Anisa Morava, Jason Tsang, Anna Sui, Ryan E Rhodes. Journal of Health Psychology.[Psychology].

Social media, education, and the rise of populist Euroscepticism. Piergiuseppe Fortunato & Marco Pecoraro. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. [Political Science].
 

Popular Press

Twitter testing edit button as it trials letting users change tweets after posting. Dan Milmo, The Guardian. Social media giant says much-requested feature lets users change tweets for up to 30 minutes.

Teens still love Snapchat. But its business is struggling to grow up. Will Oremus and Naomi Nix, Washington Post. After years of quietly thriving, Snapchat’s stock has crashed and it’s laying off employees amid new threats from Apple and TikTok.
 

Calls for Papers

European Conference on Social Media. Krakow, Poland. May 18 - 19, 2023. Abstracts Due: October 26, 2022. ECSM seeks to establish a home for researchers and practitioners with a wide range of approaches to engaging with the impact, use and potential of social media across disciplines. The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide array of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. 
 

Calls for Proposals

2022 People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy request for proposals. Meta Research. Deadline: September 21, 2022. We are keen to support academics across the social sciences and technical disciplines, including but not limited to disciplines such as anthropology, communications, computer science, economics, engineering, human-computer interaction, human factors, political science, social psychology, and sociology. Most notably, applications that are interdisciplinary and seek collaboration across fields are particularly welcome. Applicants from diverse backgrounds and those with expertise in specific countries, cultures, or vulnerable populations are especially encouraged to apply. Research methodologies that use qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, and/or mixed method approaches are all welcome.
 

Events, Tutorials & Workshops

Let’s Get Social: Leveraging Social Media for Science. Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT. Gairdner Science Literacy Workshop. Social media has become an important tool in a scientist’s arsenal. It is a place to brainstorm and share ideas, make complex research accessible to the public, and carve out a niche as an expert in their respective fields. But, in a sea of misinformation and a crowded social media landscape, how can scientists leverage social media to achieve their goals?

Responsible DS+AI Speaker Series: Kathleen Pine. Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:00 - 10:00 AM. University of Illinois. Kathleen (Katie) H. Pine is an assistant professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. Her research centers on data practices: the situated social, technical, and organizational practices through which data are created, managed, and deployed, as well as the social and organizational implications of digital information technologies in the realms of healthcare and community health.

We would like to thank the S3MC funders for supporting this newsletter, with special thanks to the McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University.