Research Handbook on Social Media and Society

Edited by Marko M. Skoric, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Natalie Pang, Associate Professor, Communications and New Media Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Contents:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Social Media and Society:
social media scholarship reaches maturity xvii
Marko M. Skoric and Natalie Pang

PART I SEXUALITY, GENDER AND FAMILY
1 Social media and performative parenting 2
Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang
2 Factors predicting parental mediation in adolescents’ social media use 12
Liang Chen and Xiaoming Liu
3 Visible, controlled, and persistent: an affordances approach to
understanding social media for transnational parenting among
migrant mothers 27
Barui K. Waruwu
4 Mapping technology-facilitated sexual violence in Singapore 42
Shivani Gupta, Francis Luis Medado Torres, Sharon Yvette Xiomara
Rosamor ’n Doen, Jungup Lee, Bimlesh Wadhwa and Michelle Ho

PART II CULTURE AND POLITICS
5 Religious influencers and socially mediated cultural politics 58
Annisa R. Beta
6 The populist rhetoric of crowdfunding on digital media 70
Roei Davidson
7 Social media and crisis research 84
Patric R. Spence and Xialing Lin
8 Social media and reconciliation in post-conflict societies 98
Juma Kasadha
9 Consumers, commons, collectives: K-pop’s digital corps de ballet 112
Liew Kai Khiun and Sun Meicheng

PART III CIVICS AND POLITICS
10 Monitoring and reputation: principal–agent relationships and
the role of social media in political representation 125
Andrea Ceron
11 Political implications of disconnective practices on social
media: unfriending, unfollowing, and blocking 135
Qinfeng Zhu
12 Teflonic social media behavior: why users refrain from
participating in political discussions and why it matters 148
Márton Bene, Tamás Tóth and Manuel Goyanes
13 The affective resonance of norm-violation rhetoric in social media 161
W. Russell Neuman, George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen
14 Socio-technical and cultural threats to social movements in the
Global South: vignettes from Indonesia 181
Abdul Rohman
15 Strategic public participation in the digital age: the case of the
Austrian ‘Green Book’ 194
Noella Edelmann, Valerie Albrecht and Peter Parycek

PART IV RESEARCH METHODS AND PEDAGOGIES
16 Big data analytical methods 211
Hai Liang
17 Public opinion analytics with social media 224
Kokil Jaidka
18 Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore 239
Gabriele de Seta
19 Looking back on the scroll back: reflections on the social
media scroll back method 254
Claire Moran, Elianne Renaud, Taylor Annabell, Fan Yang and
Brady Robards
20 A critical review of media and communications scholarship on
messaging apps 269
Emma Baulch, Amelia Johns and Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández
21 How can we take advantage of students’ social media skills in
the classroom? An international exploration 286
Maria-Jose Masanet and Carlos A. Scolari

Index 302