Making social media research ... and human behavior at unprecedented scale,” write researchers Juergen Pfeffer and Derek Ruths in a recent Science paper ... including epidemiology and statistics.

Twitter will start charging users for downloading and uploading data. Everything from bots giving out earthquake alerts to ambitious research about how misinformation spreads could be affected.

Still, the study shows the sharp rise of social media and online video as news sources in the U.S. According to the study, ...

He described the paper as “a very sophisticated piece of work,” contributing to research that has emerged recently showing that sensitivity to social media varies from person to person.

This article examines the socio-cultural impacts of social media in Arab public opinion. The analysis is based on the results ...

Social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the US, overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites, research suggests. More than half (54%) of people get news from ...

Research found some social-media users would want to be paid to stop using TikTok and Instagram — and they'd be willing to pay for others to stop using their accounts, too.

Fighting misinformation doesn’t have to involve restricting content or dampening people’s enthusiasm for sharing it. The key is turning bad habits into good ones.

According to data from the Pew Research Center released in 2023, YouTube leads the pack among social media platforms for Gen Z, followed by Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit ...

Social media services such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat have implemented pay-for-subscription services (Twitter Blue, Snapchat Plus, and Meta’s bundled Facebook and Instagram ...